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To Reach the Stars Space Opera Science Fiction
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Artemis : a novel
by Andy Weir
Augmenting her limited income by smuggling contraband to survive on the moon's wealthy city of Artemis, Jazz agrees to commit what seems to be a perfect, lucrative crime only to find herself embroiled in a conspiracy for control of the city. By the best-selling author of The Martian.
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Barbary Station
by R. E. Stearns
Newly minted engineers Adda and Iridian, desperate for employment, hijack a colony ship in hopes of joining a famed pirate crew but instead find themselves trapped on an abandoned shipbreaking station in deep space where the station’s AI security system has gone mad, trying to kill all the residents and any ships trying to leave.
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Behind the Throne
by K. B. Wagers
Hail Bristol is known throughout the galaxy for being a renegade with a space ship, but when she becomes head of the Indranan Empire she is faced with assassination attempts and plots and has to discover who murdered her sisters in order to survive.
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Binti
by Nnedi Okorafor
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy.
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The Collapsing Empire
by John Scalzi
When humanity discovers the existence of an extra-dimensional field capable of transporting travelers to different worlds instantly, a significantly depopulated Earth is threatened by a subsequent finding that the field is unstable and may be cutting travelers off on the wrong side of Earth-friendly worlds.
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A Darkling Sea
by James L. Cambias
A diplomatic disaster erupts after a reckless adventurer and media personality is murdered by Ilmatarans, a blind alien race that lives under the ice-covered sea, threatening a new age of human explorations.
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Descender : Book one, Tin stars
by Jeff Lemire
Ten years after planet-size robots known as Harvesters wreaked havoc across the galaxy, TIM-21, a young android, awakens to find that robots are outlawed, but after discovering that his machine DNA may hold the secrets to the Harvesters, he quickly becomes the most wanted robot in the universe. Graphic novel series.
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Embassytown
by China Miéville
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
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Embers of War
by Gareth L. Powell
The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organization dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a straightforward rescue turns into something far more dangerous, Trouble Dog and her crew find themselves at the center of a conflict that could engulf the entire galaxy.
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Fortune's Pawn
by Rachel Bach
When professional mercenary Deviana Morris took the security guard job aboard the Glorious Fool, all she wanted was a fast route into the Devastators --- the elite league of armored fighters entrusted with the most important duty on her home planet of Paradox. But this security job isn't just twelve-hour patrols, armor-polishing, and whiskey. The supposedly-cursed Captain Caldswell keeps sending Devi and her partner into unimaginably dangerous situations. Ren, the captain's daughter, is a kind of weird that Devi has never experienced before. And to top it off, there's the insufferably sexy cook, Rupert Chekov, who is far more than what he seems -- possibly even far more than human
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Great North Road
by Peter F Hamilton
The best-selling author of the Void series combines futuristic speculation with murder when a scientific expedition on a faraway planet searches for an alien species only to be stalked by a determined killer who may be a hostile alien or a member of their own team.
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Gunpowder Moon
by David Pedreira
In 2072, mining on the moon has become commonplace and necessary for survival. Without the lunar helium-3, earth cannot recover from the environmental disaster it has created over the decades. Former marine Caden Dechert is the chief of the U.S. mining operation on the edge of the Sea of Serenity. When a bomb kills one of his diggers on Mare Serenitatis, the veteran races to solve the first murder on the moon. As Caden and his team uncover the truth, they realize that the struggle for economic control of the lunar material between two global powers can make lives on the moon expendable.
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Leviathan Wakes
by James S. A. Corey
After Captain Jim Holden discovers a derelict, abandoned spaceship, he and his crews unearth a secret that threatens to throw the entire solar system into war and a vast conspiracy that could mean the end of the human race.
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
by Becky Chambers
Joining the crew of the aging Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that has seen better days, loner Rosemary Harper must unexpectedly risk her life when they are offered the job of a lifetime, which teaches her valuable lessons about love and trust, and that having a family isn't the worst thing in the universe.
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Outpost
by W. Michael Gear
On a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of its colonists, a career-driven ship supervisor, a Port Authority ruler in fear of her life, a power-hungry psychopath and a corporate enforcer engage in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a brutal killer.
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Planetfall
by Emma Newman
After leading 1,000 colonists to establish a colony on another planet with her lover, Ren, Suh disappears for 20 years, only to return with a devastating secret.
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Provenance
by Ann Leckie
The award-winning author of the Ancillary trilogy presents the story of a power-driven young woman who frees a thief from a prison planet and seeks to reclaim priceless stolen artifacts as part of her plan to secure the status she craves.
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Red Rising
by Pierce Brown
A tale set in a bleak future society torn by class divisions follows the experiences of secret revolutionary Darrow, who after witnessing his wife's execution by an oppressive government joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy.
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Retrograde
by Peter Cawdron
A fledgling colony on Mars—populated by over 100 scientists, astronauts and medical staff—is protected from surface radiation by being situated underground and is prepared for every eventuality, except the one that happens: a massive disaster on Earth.
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Saga
by Brian K Vaughan
When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe in this award-winning graphic novel series.
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Saturn run
by John Sandford
When a mid-21st-century Caltech intern discovers that a spacecraft from a technologically superior alien source is headed toward Saturn, a ragtag crew of competitors races to be the first to claim the ship and its technological advantages.
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Semiosis
by Sue Burke
Human colonists are forced to survive on limited resources on a planet with an inexplicable environment, where trees offer deliciously addictive fruit one day and poison the next and the ruins of an alien race are discovered within plant roots.
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Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson
When a catastrophic event dooms the planet, nations around the world band together to devise an ambitious survival plan in outer space 5,000 years before their progeny organize an audacious return.
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Six Wakes
by Mur Lafferty
Awakening in a cloning vat, streaked with blood and possessing no memory of how she died, new clone Maria Arena discovers the clones of six former starship crew members and must identify their murderers before the killer strikes again.
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The Stars Are Legion
by Kameron Hurley
In an attempt to achieve peace, Anat, the leader of the Katazyrna world-ship and the most fearsome raiding force on the Outer Rim, offers the hand of her daughter, Jayd, who has a unique ability, to her rival, while her sister Zan assembles a band of cast-off warriors to rescue Jayd, but their mission does not go as well.
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Terminal Alliance
by Jim C. Hines
A debut installment in a riotous space-zombie science fiction series follows the efforts of an alien race to civilize the survivors of a zombie apocalypse, including sanitation manager Mops Adamopoulos, who struggles to clean up in the wake of a bioweapon attack that reverts its victims to a feral state.
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The Three-Body Problem
by Cixin Liu
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project's signal is received by an alien civilization, which plans to invade Earth, while on Earth different camps start forming to either welcome the superior beings or to fight against the invasion.
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Waypoint Kangaroo
by Curtis C. Chen
Dispatched on a mandatory vacation to Mars after bungling yet another mission, haphazard spy Kangaroo, who is employed by his agency for his exclusive ability to use a pocket portal to a parallel universe, outmaneuvers a dark colleague with ties to two murders and a system-threatening conspiracy.
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