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  • Miles in Love by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles in Love by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Komarr—Miles Vorkosigan is sent to Komarr, a planet that could be a garden with a thousand more years of terraforming; or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming project fails. The solar mirror vital to the project has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course, and Miles has been sent to find out if it was an accident, or sabotage...
  • Miles Errant (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #5, 5.3 & 8) by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles Errant (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #5, 5.3 & 8) by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Contains:. The Borders of Infinity. Brothers in Arms. Mirror Dance. Miles Naismith--in the person of his two alter-egos Admiral Naismith and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan--embarks on a perilous series of adventures, from the liberation of Barrayaran allies from a Cetagandan POW camp to the rescue of clone children scheduled to be murdered for their bodies.
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  • Miles, Mutants, and Microbes (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #4, 5.2 & 13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles, Mutants, and Microbes (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #4, 5.2 & 13) by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Content:. Falling free. Labyrinth. Diplomatic immunity. Miles Vorkosigan/Naismith : his life and times. Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume:. Falling Free—The Nebula Award-winning novel. Leo Graf was just your typical efficient engineer: mind your own business and do the job...
  • Catalyst by Fletcher DeLancey

    Catalyst by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After disobeying orders and saving the planet of Alsea from invasion, Captain Ekatya Serrado returns home a hero and renegade, alongside Dr. Lhyn Rivers, now the foremost authority on a culture that fascinates and terrifies. They share a secret: they are tyrees, linked by an Alsean empathic bond that should be biologically impossible for two Gaians...
    Categorized as:
    military  science fiction  f-f  aliens  queer  length-long
  • Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 45 ratings
    Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr, far from the Byzantine court politics of his home system...
  • Miles, Mystery & Mayhem (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #3, 5.2 &  9) by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Miles, Mystery & Mayhem (Vorkosigan Saga (Publication Order) #3, 5.2 & 9) by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Diplomat, soldier, spy - Lieutenant Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan of the Barrayarayan Empire, a. k. a. Admiral Naismith of the Dendarii Free Mercenaries, is a young man of many parts...
  • Annihilation by Adrienne Lecter

    Annihilation by Adrienne Lecter

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The end is nigh. They have survived the outbreak of the deadliest virus known to mankind. They have made it through the zombie apocalypse. They have triumphed over cannibals, assassins, kidnappers, and have faced their own mortality a million times over. Now all that’s left to do is take out the man responsible for it all...
  • Alsea Rising: Gathering Storm by Fletcher DeLancey

    Alsea Rising: Gathering Storm by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    AN OLD ENEMY. A NEW THREAT. As Alsea’s space elevator nears completion, an unsettling rumor arrives: the Voloth are stirring once more. Lancer Andira Tal has been preparing for this since the Battle of Alsea, determined that her people will never again pay such a price. She will use every weapon at her disposal—including her own bondmate...
    Categorized as:
    military  science fiction  f-f  queer  length-long
  • Alsea Rising: The Seventh Star by Fletcher DeLancey

    Alsea Rising: The Seventh Star by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The Voloth have arrived. Their opening gambit upends months of planning. Their second assault leaves Alsea’s defenses scrambling. The third may end it all. While Captain Serrado and her forces desperately fight to prevent a catastrophe, Lancer Tal activates her secret weapon: the divine tyrees, led by Salomen Opah...
    Categorized as:
    military  science fiction  f-f  queer  length-long
  • Resilience by Fletcher DeLancey

    Resilience by Fletcher DeLancey

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As the first Alsean to serve aboard a Protectorate warship, Rahel Sayana thought her empathic sense would be an advantage. She never imagined it could be a weakness. Captain Ekatya Serrado has her hands full with a new empathic officer, an attempted murder, and a missing cargo ship. Finding the lost ship only adds to her problems: its crew lies dead amid signs of alien predators...
  • The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

    The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    [A Miles Vorkosigan Story] Twenty year old Ensign Miles Vorkosigan plays detective in a murder case, and tests the balance of power as a member of the Barrayaran nobility. [Publisher's Note: The Mountains of Mourning was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the May 1989 issue of Analog...
  • King of Eon by Anna Hackett

    King of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    The King of the Eon Warriors has decided to take a Terran as his bride…but finds himself shockingly attracted to the tough, beautiful Space Corps officer in charge of his potential brides’ security. King Gayel Solann-Eon is dedicated to his people and empire. His father was a hard man and a rigid king, but Gayel is doing things his own way...
  • Bedlam: Book One of the Prison Ship Sheol Saga by Nicholas Gaumer

    Bedlam: Book One of the Prison Ship Sheol Saga by Nicholas Gaumer

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Bedlam Galaxy lies at the heart of the Laniakea Supercluster and is a focal point for all of the wormhole transits spanning that great expanse. Among the many races drawn to and inhabiting its 10,000+ stars, humanity is one of the most recent and longest anticipated additions...
  • Revenge by Tana Stone

    Revenge by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Some betrayals demand vengeance—no matter the cost. I was left for dead, and now I want revenge. The only thing standing in my way is Deklyn—the cocky Inferno Force warrior who helped rescue me and who now thinks he can protect me from myself. The gorgeous alien gets under my skin, but I refuse to admit how much I crave his touch...
  • Storm of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Storm of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    When a Terran weapons scientist finds herself the target of deadly alien assassins, only one fierce alien warrior can keep her safe.
  • Field of Dishonor by David Weber

    Field of Dishonor by David Weber

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The People's Republic of Haven's sneak attack on the Kingdom of Manticore has failed. The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in bloody revolution, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious. But Manticore has domestic problems of its own, and success can be more treacherous than defeat for Honor Harrington...
  • Transcendence by G.S. Jennsen

    Transcendence by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What does it mean to be human? What if the price of saving humanity is giving up your own? The year is 2322, and we stand upon the precipice of extinction. The invading Metigen armada has decimated the eastern third of settled space in a matter of days, leaving tens of millions dead...
  • Conqueror by Richard F. Weyand

    Conqueror by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ANOTHER INTERSTELLAR WAR! The Empire has won the war against the Alliance. But at the close of that war, an invasion fleet from the Democracy of Planets sought to annex Jasmine. So Jasmine annexed to Sintar, and Sintar destroyed that fleet, causing resentment that is driving the Democracy of Planets to go to war with Sintar. The Democracy of Planets is a much more deadly enemy than the Alliance...
  • Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 4-6 by Anna Hackett

    Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 4-6 by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…. When several women from Earth find themselves abducted from a space station by alien slavers, life becomes a battle for survival on a dangerous desert planet. Includes:...
  • Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 7-9 by Anna Hackett

    Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 7-9 by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…. When several women from Earth find themselves abducted from a space station by alien slavers, life becomes a battle for survival on a dangerous desert planet. Includes:. Beast: Rescued by gladiators on the alien world of Carthago, starship pilot Mia is working to find other abducted humans who are still lost...
  • The Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold

    The Borders of Infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    [A Miles Vorkosigan Story] Miles infiltrates a prison camp at Dagoola IV, where he plots from within to free the prisoners. [Publisher's Note: The Borders of Infinity was originally published as a stand-alone novella in the anthology Free Lancers in September 1987. It was then included in the novel Borders of Infinity (October 1989). For the novel, Ms...
  • Abysm by G.S. Jennsen

    Abysm by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In the quest to be the masters of their own fate, will humanity rise to become liberators or follow the path of their ancestors into darkness? Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano risked everything to learn the hidden purpose behind the Metigen's multiverse portal network, but nothing could have prepared them for the answer...
  • The Arcav Captain's Queen by Hope Hart

    The Arcav Captain's Queen by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 19 ratings
    She wants her planet back. .. . .. But all he wants is her. Forced to become a monster to survive her father’s cruelties, Saria wants only one thing: To convince the Arcav King to help her lead her people out of the darkness and into the light. She has no intention of mating anyone. Least of all Roax- the bossy bodyguard who the Arcav King ordered to be her shadow...
  • Guardian by Anna Hackett

    Guardian by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Rescued from alien slavers, former cop Dayna wakes to discover she’s host to a powerful alien symbiont, and the only man who can help her is the mysterious and dangerous casino owner, Rillian...
  • Maria's Journey by Karen Clow

    Maria's Journey by Karen Clow

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Compelling, Brutal and stretching every boundary of Love and loyalty to its limits; Maria’s Journey will leave you wondering how she ever survived and remained the lady she is. Continuing to chart the turbulent lives of Jimmy, Maria and Mickey, once again it delves into London’s violent, depraved, criminal underworld...
  • Cajole by Jenny Schwartz

    Cajole by Jenny Schwartz

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    If life on the border was complicated, life on Capitoline is insane. Nora and Liam struggle to reconcile her abilities and his duty, while caught up in the dangerous games of the powerful. Political intrigue, family drama, and ancient alien technology combine in the fourth novel of the Human Sector.
  • Defender by Michelle Diener

    Defender by Michelle Diener

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Hunted, captured, taken off-planet . . . As a Special Forces Commander, Ethan Hyt is well aware his duty is to protect the Planetary Head of Defense, Velda Shanïha, but when their ship is shot down and they are taken prisoner, he finds it harder and harder to pretend he’s protecting Velda out of duty...
  • At All Costs by David Weber

    At All Costs by David Weber

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    What price victory? The war with the Republic of Haven has resumed . . . disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington, Steadholder and Duchess Harrington, the single victorious Allied commander of the opening phase of the new war, has been recalled from the Sidemore System to command Eighth Fleet...
  • Weapons Master by Anna Hackett

    Weapons Master by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A grumpy cyborg weapons master collides with a feisty mechanic from Earth who turns his ordered existence upside down. Abducted from her exploration ship and enslaved on a desert world, mechanic Bellamy Walsh has fought for her survival. She’s had to fight for everything in her life, and she doesn’t ever expect things to be easy...
  • Supreme's Kiss by M.K. Eidem

    Supreme's Kiss by M.K. Eidem

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    All Kirall wanted to do was bring his mate home, love her, and make sure she never suffered again as she had on Earth. All Autumn wanted was to make a home on Mondu, love Kirall, and maybe have a family. While some on Mondu embrace and support the return of the Supremes, others do not. Not everyone is happy Supremes have returned. Change causes conflict. Lives are about to change...
  • Survivors by Anna Hackett

    Survivors by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In the aftermath of a deadly alien invasion, a band of survivors fights on…. Survivors contains three action-packed novellas in the Hell Squad series. Includes:. Nate – Long before the aliens invaded, former Marine Nate Caldwell came home a broken man. Going off-grid in a cabin he inherited in Australia’s Blue Mountains, he survived the invasion with only his dog Blue for company...
  • Warlord by Richard F. Weyand

    Warlord by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    INTERSTELLAR WAR! Their resentment of Sintar’s success fanned by the Democracy of Planets, the Alliance has voted to wage war on Sintar. They are mustering their fleets and gathering their strength to take on the Imperial Navy. Over three million warships are gathering to deliver the blow that will bring the Empire to its knees, with seven million additional warships in reserve...
  • Tyrant by Richard F. Weyand

    Tyrant by Richard F. Weyand

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Council Revolt has started. The Council has struck at the Throne. As the Council plots to place their own candidate on the Throne, a single survivor is dragged out of the fires burning in the Imperial Residence. Hoping to take advantage of the capital’s chaos, enemies internal and external move against the Empire...
  • True Allegiance by John Spearman

    True Allegiance by John Spearman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The third installment of the adventures of Captain Jonah Halberd, Royal Navy of the Interplanetary Commonwealth. Join Captain Halberd in the Commonwealth's fight against a new enemy...
  • Dark Strength by Cynthia Sax, Amanda Kelsey

    Dark Strength by Cynthia Sax, Amanda Kelsey

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall. Balvan, the Refuge’s Gatekeeper, is huge, green, and has a reputation for crushing skulls. He’s a modified humanoid, genetically designed to be the ultimate warrior. One of a kind and considered monstrous by many, he never expects to find his mate, the one female meant for him...
  • Revealed by Tana Stone

    Revealed by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Maxxon was sent to Earth to procure a tribute bride for the Drexians. There’s only one problem. The woman he’s protecting as violent aliens invade Earth is not her. Maxxon’s job is to locate and retrieve the human females targeted to be tribute brides. The key is to find them, charm them, and return with them to the space station without anyone noticing...
    Categorized as:
    m-f  science fiction  aliens  humor
  • Artifice: Book Two of the Prison Ship Sheol Saga by Nicholas Gaumer

    Artifice: Book Two of the Prison Ship Sheol Saga by Nicholas Gaumer

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Bedlam Galaxy lies at the heart of the Laniakea Supercluster and is a focal point for all of the wormhole transits spanning that great expanse. Among the many races drawn to and inhabiting its 10,000+ stars, humanity is one of the most recent and longest anticipated additions...
  • Rubicon by G.S. Jennsen

    Rubicon by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “We are you—the you that you could have been. ”. The Anaden Directorate has ruled Amaranthe for millennia, subjugating species and galaxies in a neverending quest for control and order. For as many millennia, the anarchs have rebelled, defiantly claiming their own freedom yet without hope of winning it for everyone...
  • Requiem by G.S. Jennsen

    Requiem by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The end of the world began with a library query…how will it conclude? What began as a chance discovery of an anomalous signal is now a multiverse war between humanity and its genetic ancestors over who controls the levers of life and death. Over who decides what life is and whether it will be allowed to exist. For the ruling Anaden Directorate, victory means immortality...
  • Alien AI's Marine by Mina Carter

    Alien AI's Marine by Mina Carter

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    He's the lone human male in a sea of lethal alien warriors. He's either gifted or suicidal. .. Kidnapped by aliens, rescued, and now on a secret base in a system he can't even pronounce, Major Jay Stephens has given up on a wing and a prayer. .. he's now on kicking butt and taking names. Especially when it comes to the alien AI who's risked everything, even her 'life' to protect him...
  • Holmes by Anna Hackett

    Holmes by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The battle of survival against the invading aliens heats up…but Hell Squad never quits. General Adam Holmes’ life is dedicated to keeping his small band of survivors alive. On the run, with only Hell Squad and the other soldiers for protection, they are making their last dangerous drive to the secret stronghold of the Enclave...
  • Soul of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Soul of Eon by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    The last thing she expects is an instant mating with a handsome alien warrior…just before they are abducted by the deadly Kantos. Commander Kaira Chand of the Australian Air Force knows the meaning of loss. She lost both her beloved husband and her father over recent years, and she vows never to let a man close again...
  • Lyel by Ava Ross

    Lyel by Ava Ross

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An alien warrior seeking redemption meets a captured Earth woman being treated as a pet. Will their love survive in a hostile world? Kidnapped by four-armed, blue skinned aliens, Isabelle “Isi” is sold to the head of the Al’kieern kidnapping operation. Isi has accepted she’ll live and die as a songbird pet to the queen. If nothing else, performing for the Al’kieern beats being sold as a breeder...
  • The Arcav Guard's Female by Hope Hart

    The Arcav Guard's Female by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    She’s on a quest for revenge…. . .. But he’s on a mission to make her his. .. After being abducted by aliens and rescued by the Arcav, all Peyton wants is revenge. Well, that, and a trip straight back home to Earth where she belongs. She’s not interested in the handsome Arcav Guard who stares at her so intently. Even if he does make her wish she’d met him before her captivity...
  • Dom by Anna Hackett

    Dom by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    As the battle against the invading aliens intensifies, a group of bad boy bikers and mercenaries will stand and fight for humanity’s survival…. Squad Three berserker Dom Santora has an ugly past he can’t forget. Born and raised in the darkness, he spent his life before the alien invasion as a Mafia enforcer...
  • Subdue by Tana Stone

    Subdue by Tana Stone

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    As the kalesh of the Taori ship, it's his sworn duty to reassemble his crew and exact revenge on the aliens who destroyed their ship. He has no time for a distraction like her. When Kalesh Naz wakes from crashing in his escape pod, he's enraged to find himself locked in a dungeon...
  • Dissonance by G.S. Jennsen

    Dissonance by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Know this: you need not be afraid. They own the fear. They fear us because they believe we are powerful, and they are correct to do so. The technology behind Project Noetica is on the loose. Prevos—individuals and AIs sharing a single body—are spreading across the galaxy...
    Categorized as:
    military  m-f  science fiction  aliens  war  m-m  f-f  bisexual
  • Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 10-12 by Anna Hackett

    Galactic Gladiators Set: Books 10-12 by Anna Hackett

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Fighting for love, honor, and freedom on the galaxy’s lawless outer rim…. When several women from Earth find themselves abducted from a space station by alien slavers, life becomes a battle for survival on a dangerous desert planet. Includes:...
  • Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen

    Of A Darker Void by G.S. Jennsen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When man and machine are one and the same, death is no longer an inevitability. But in the darkest reaches of space, neither is life. Diplomat. Rebel. Fugitive. Nika Tescarav has lived many lives, though she no longer remembers most of them...
  • A Very Arcav Christmas by Hope Hart

    A Very Arcav Christmas by Hope Hart

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Babies, weddings, and Christmas. .. oh my! For the human women on Arcavia, there's plenty to celebrate during the holidays. Sure, the Grivath are a constant threat, but with a surprise wedding to plan, a baby on the way, and even a visit from Santa, the first Arcav Christmas is sure to be incredible...
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