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"I am drunk on battery acid and wearing my best party frock, sitting on a balcony beneath a pleasure palace afloat in the stratosphere of Venus." ~ from Charles Stross' Saturn's Children
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The only survivors of an annihilated human race must find one another somewhere in the cosmos and unite to destroy the alien aggressors who obliterated the Earth in this classic science fiction adventure.
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| The Cold Between by Elizabeth BonesteelSF Mystery. During shore leave on the colony planet of Volhynia, Commander Elena Shaw, chief engineer of the Central Corps ship Galileo, hooks up with retired starship captain Treiko "Trey" Zajec. But their no-strings-attached fling gets knotty when Trey is accused of murdering one of Elena's fellow crew members. Unable to believe that he could be a cold-blooded killer, Elena investigates the crime and quickly gets caught up in a vast intergalactic conspiracy. Blending mystery, political intrigue, action, and romance, this opening installment of the Central Corps novels may appeal to fans of Ann Aguirre's Sirantha Jax novels. |
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| Arena by Holly JenningsCyberpunk. In 2054, gamers have become pro-athletes thanks to technology that allows players to compete in the digital arena of RAGE, or Reality-Alternate Gladiatorial Events, a high-stakes tournament run by the Virtual Gaming League. Superstar athlete Kali Ling has just been chosen as captain of Team Defiance, making her the first female team captain in VGL history. As if breaking gender barriers isn't enough pressure, the team's sponsors are expecting the team to win the league championship against difficult odds. For more novels about deadly competitions that combine cutting-edge technology and old-fashioned violence, check out Ted Kosmatka's The Games or Walter Jon Williams' Dagmar Shaw novels. |
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| Sleeping Giants by Sylvain NeuvelHard SF. While riding her bike around town, 11-year-old South Dakota resident Rose Franklin falls through a sinkhole and into a subterranean chamber decorated with mysterious luminescent carvings. Seventeen years later, Rose, now a highly regarded physicist, is assigned to a government project that involves studying the chamber and its unusual, unearthly artifacts. Blending traditional narrative with interview transcripts, news articles, and government documents, this thought-provoking debut novel interweaves a compelling story with philosophical reflections on humankind's place in the universe. |
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Infinity Beach
by Jack McDevitt
With nine other solar systems colonized, humans have not yet discovered other intelligent life forms, but when Dr. Kimberly Brandywine investigates the death of her sister in the cold space between stars, she may uncover evidence of another species. Original.
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The long Utopia
by Terry Pratchett
Lobsang's pursuit of a human life, Joshua's search for his father, and the adaptation efforts of "the Next" post-humans are challenged by a voracious alien race that would conquer and colonize the Long Earth
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Old man's war
by John Scalzi
Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that the conflict involves much more than he understands. A first novel. By the author of The Rough Guide to the Universe. Reprint.
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| Saturn's Children: A Space Opera by Charles StrossSpace Opera. Humanity's extinction leaves femmebot Freya Nakamichi 47, a concubine android designed for human clients, sadly out of work. In the centuries after humanity's end, android society develops an all-too familiar class system: "slave-chipped" lower-class droids work for a wealthy minority of "aristo" droids, who continue their human creators' dreams of space exploration. Super-sexy Freya struggles to remain a free agent, and -- fleeing the unwanted attention of a powerful aristo -- accepts work ferrying a mysterious package between Mercury and Mars. Author Charles Stross (a two-time Hugo winner) received a 2009 Hugo nomination for this old-school, adults-only (warning: explicit android sex), pulpy SF/space mystery praised by Booklist as "one of the most stylishly imaginative robot tales ever penned." |
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| Echopraxia by Peter WattsHard SF. Daniel Brüks is obsolete. He's a field biologist in a scientific community that's gone computational, an atheist in a faith-based society, and a mortal man trying to survive in an increasingly post-human civilization. Boarding the Rapture-guided ship Crown of Thorns, Brüks joins the hive-like Bicameral Order of monks and a genetically engineered vampire who are following in the footsteps of the Theseus mission, which vanished years ago after reaching the edge of our solar system. En route, Brüks and the crew discover a post-biological organism that challenges everything they know about the nature of life in the universe. Echopraxia serves as a companion novel to the Hugo Award-nominated Blindsight, although this book can be enjoyed without having read its predecessor. |
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