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Science Fiction February 2017
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| Remnants of Trust: A Central Corps Novel by Elizabeth BonesteelThis follow-up to The Cold Between finds Commander Elena Shaw and Captain Greg Foster of Central Corps court-martialed for their role in an incident that the government won't officially acknowledge. Their punishment? To patrol the underpopulated and (usually) uneventful Third Sector. When their ship, Galileo, picks up a distress signal from sister ship Exeter, Shaw and Foster find themselves embroiled in an intergalactic conspiracy. |
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| Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation by Ken LiuAn anthology of short stories edited by author and translator Ken Liu, who provides notes on language and dialect as well as cultural context to help general readers navigate the collection. Short author bios preface the stories, which are supplemented by accessible essays written by literary scholars on topics such as "What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese? |
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| After Atlas: A Planetfall Novel by Emma NewmanWhen Carlos Moreno was a baby, his mother left Earth on the Atlas while his father joined an anti-technology cult led by the charismatic and dangerous Alejandro Casales. When Casales dies under suspicious circumstances, Carlos must solve the murder of the man whom he blames for ruining his life. |
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| Last Year by Robert Charles WilsonTalk about a long-distance relationship! Jesse Cullen lives in 1870s Ohio; the woman he loves is from the 21st century. Both are involved with the City of Futurity, a metropolis built by time travelers to give 19th-century tourists a (selective) glimpse of the future. The word on the street is that the portal connecting Futurity and the world of the time travelers is about to close forever. |
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Empire games
by Charles Stross
A tale set in an alternate world of the immediate future follows the efforts of the head of a paratime espionage agency to prepare for an upcoming drone war at the same time her estranged spy daughter attempts to protect national security during an ominous succession crisis.
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Interstellar Civilizations
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| The Dark Between the Stars: The Saga of Shadows, Book One by Kevin J. Anderson In the aftermath of the Elemental War, the human Confederation -- replacing the corrupt Terran Hanseatic League -- has formed an alliance with the Ildiran Empire. But the Ildirans have old enemies with scores to settle, while the insectoid Klikiss want to destroy both races. And if these foes join forces, the galaxy is doomed. |
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Firebird
by Jack McDevitt
Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath try to find a missing, renowned physicist whose fringe science theories on endless alternate universes led him to fly interstellar yachts outside the planetary system.
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| Ancillary Justice by Ann LeckieArtificial intelligence One Esk once commanded an entire starship, the formidable Justice of Toren; now, confined to a single mortal body cobbled together from interchangeable human parts, the entity known as "Breq" must figure out how to survive as a multi-segmented ancillary humanoid being in an oppressive galactic empire -- and without disobeying the law that forbids AIs from harming their creators. |
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Impulse
by Dave Bara
Transferred to a Unified Space Navy foreign command after the death of a loved one, Lieutenant Peter Cochrane, armed with secret orders that might force him to become a mutineer, is led into an unknown galaxy where one false move could plunge humanity into an apocalyptic interstellar war.
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