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"Before he took his new name, before the animals rose up and overthrew their oppressors, before there was talk of prophecies and saviors, the great warrior Mort(e) was just a house cat known to his human masters as Sebastian." ~ from Robert Repino's Mort(e)
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| Dark Intelligence: Transformation Book One by Neal AsherSet in author Neal Asher's Polity Universe, this trilogy opener stars Thorvald Spear, who died at the hands of rogue A.I. "Penny Royal" during the Prador-Human War over a century ago. Resurrected via his memory implant, his consciousness placed in a clone body, Thorvald now seeks revenge. He hires cybernetically enhanced Isobel Satomi to track down his nemesis, in the process jeopardizing his second life. For another dramatic, action-packed, and intricately plotted space opera with a large cast of characters, check out Kevin J. Anderson's Saga of Seven Suns series. |
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Undercity
by Catherine Asaro
A first entry of a new series set in the Nebula Award and Hugo Award-winning author's Skolian Empire universe follows the experiences of a tough woman private investigator on the dangerous streets of Undercity.
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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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Unbreakable
by W. C. Bauers
After battling pirates to re-stabilize the provincial planet Montana, Lieutenant Promise Paen reluctantly returns to Montana, her home planet, and becomes persistently haunted by the voice of her dead mother
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Karen Memory
by Elizabeth Bear
A tale set in late 19th-century steampunk Seattle finds orphaned Karen working in a high-quality bordello, where she confronts a powerful man who owns a dangerous mind-control machine. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Shattered Pillars.
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Golden son
by Pierce Brown
A follow-up to the New York Times best-selling Red Rising follows the efforts of tragedy-forged rebel hero Darrow to infiltrate the world of the elite Golds to secure his people's freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future.
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| Empire: The Chronicles of the Invaders by John Connolly and Jennifer RidyardIn this sequel to Conquest, technologically advanced humanoid aliens known as the Illyri control Earth, their latest acquisition. Threatening the stability of the new order is a pair of (literal) star-crossed lovers: human Paul Kerr and Illyri Syl Hellais. Separated when their forbidden relationship is discovered, Syl endures exile within the Marque, a convent run by the Nairene Sisterhood, while Paul's conscription into the Brigades sends him light years away, where the Illyri military hopes he'll meet an untimely end. Will Paul and Syl survive and be reunited? Stay tuned for the forthcoming conclusion to the Chronicles of the Invaders trilogy. |
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1636 : Commander Cantrell in the West Indies
by Eric Flint
Sent by Admiral Simpson to the New World to claim a rich oil field, newlywed Eddie Cantrell and his small task force confront formidable Spanish opposition, hostile native, rival ships and starving colonists with the help of eccentric companions.
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Castaway planet
by Eric Flint
Separated from their colony spaceship in a broken lifeboat and lost in the dark, Sakura, her family and an alien called Whips search for a habitable world, but the one they find is also host to thousands of secrets. By the authors of Portal.
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| Mort(e): A Novel by Robert RepinoTransformed by the Change, a pheromone-based biological attack by ant queen Hymenoptera, former house cat Sebastian becomes the bipedal, English-speaking, but still unmistakably feline warrior Mort(e), fighting to exterminate all humans. Between missions, he searches for Sheba, the dog that was his best friend before his metamorphosis. Fans of George Orwell's Animal Farm or Richard Adams' The Plague Dogs should appreciate this allegorical tale of love and war. |
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Strands of sorrow
by John Ringo
In the conclusion to the Black Tide Rising series, the Wolf Squadron, its leader Steve Smith and what's left of the U.S. Navy band together to retake the mainland from the infected, while Smith's teenage daughters hold the key to the rebirth of civilisation on a devastated planet. By a New York Times best-selling author.
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| Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Judd TrichterThe law is clear: don't date robots! But bot-maker Eliot Lazar loves Iris Matsuo, a C-900 android with a distinctive mote in her eye. They dream of escaping Los Angeles and settling on the artificial island of Avernus, where they can live together in freedom. But then Iris is kidnapped and disassembled, and Eliot must collect Iris' parts and put her back together before her personality is lost forever. Set in a noir-tinged futuristic world where cutting-edge technology is controlled by ruthless corporations and illicit substances make life bearable for ordinary people, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction is a violent, darkly humorous SF novel that should please fans of Philip K. Dick. |
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The Demi-Monde : fall
by Rod Rees
For thousands of years the Grigori have lain hidden, dreaming of the day when they will emerge from the darkness. Now that day draws close. Norma, Trixie, and Ella fight doggedly to frustrate these plans, but they need help. Percy Shelley must lead Norma to the Portal in NoirVille so she can return to the Real World. Trixie's father must convince her that, if she is to destroy the Great Pyramid standing in Terror Incognita, she must be prepared to die. And Vanka Maykov though not the man she knew and loved must guide Ella to the secret enclave of the Grigori, where she will face the most chilling of enemies.
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