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Like a Calling by Lexa Luthor
Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe Sworne have returned to the Milky Way!The Sworne arrive in Kander's airspace and demand only one thing; the surrender of all Earthlings for termination. Upon Kal's refusal, fighting ensues and hostages are taken on both sides until Kal and Charlie win the skirmish, forcing a ceasefire... -
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Collecting Stars by Lexa Luthor
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn F/F Omegaverse Sci-Fi Romance Any landing you can limp away from is a good one! Faced with news about the future, Kal determines she must prepare her planet for a possible war. But will Charlie be there to support her? Or will Charlie run back to the stars? Join Charlie and Kal as their story continues in Book 4 of The Alpha God series... -
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![Rhapsody by Molly J. Bragg]()
Rhapsody by Molly J. Bragg
Megan Harwood never wanted to be a hero. She just wanted to indulge the two great loves of her life, woodworking and music, and for the last few years, she’s done just that running a small guitar making business in Sun City Florida with her dad’s help...Categorized as:
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![This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne]()
This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne
Sergeant Nix Marr is a damn good soldier. She's also desperate to leave her haunted past deep in the bioluminescent ocean, buried alongside her best friend, Quian. So, when Subarch Kessandra, Valkesh's favorite royal--and Nix's loathed ex--requests Nix's help investigating a masacre in the abyssal city of Fall, Nix refuses. Vehemently.She should have known Kessandra would fight back... -
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![Once Upon A Lucky Star by N.D. Shar, Natalie Debrabandere]()
Once Upon A Lucky Star by N.D. Shar, Natalie Debrabandere
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsGUESS WHAT? I’M NOT DEAD YETMy name is Storm Redfield: Navy Commander, still kicking ass at 161 years old.So far, I’ve had a good time in the 23rd Century. I discovered space travel and fought evil creatures in a distant star system... -
![Chosen of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano]()
Chosen of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsEvelyn enjoyed living a nice, quiet life in an anarchic pirate port, far from the world she’d once conquered.Then came an attack by mercenaries that made her angry... -
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Sea Wolf by Anna Burke
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn the year 2514, the only thing more dangerous than the seas is those who sail them.Life aboard the mercenary ship Man o’ War is rarely dull as hurricanes, swarms of jellyfish, and man-eating squid pose daily doses of danger... -
![Adept of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano]()
Adept of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsEvelyn's deeds are coming back to haunt her.Free to travel among the stars, the former warlord is enjoying her freedom, even if she’s occasionally exasperated by the women who’ve attached themselves to her. They accompany her as she encounters wonders, from dryad terraforming ships to the orcish arenas of Skaloth.Yet Evelyn has enemies, and they have not forgotten her... -
![The Sovereign of Psiere by K. Aten]()
The Sovereign of Psiere by K. Aten
Psiere is a world of intrigue where old ideology meets new. The Makers built massive pyramids on each continent and filled them with encrypted texts and advanced technology. The two suns, Archeos and Illeos shine down on a mostly undiscovered planet with a psionic race of people living on land, and violent sea people below the water...Categorized as:
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![These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs]()
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJun Ironway, hacker, con artist, and only occasional thief, has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: a video that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems... -
![Rangers at Roadsend by Jane Fletcher]()
Rangers at Roadsend by Jane Fletcher
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSergeant Chip Coppelli escaped the manipulative plots of her powerful family by becoming a soldier. After 9 years in the elite Rangers, dealing with thugs and wild predators, she has learned to spot trouble coming, and that is exactly what she sees in the mystery surrounding her new recruit, Katryn Nagata. But even so, Chip was not expecting murder... -
![No Shelter But the Stars by Virginia Black]()
No Shelter But the Stars by Virginia Black
Virginia Black's No Shelter But the Stars is the space opera you've been waiting for—packed with warring worlds, romantic adventure, and larger-than-life characters.Kyran Loyal is the last heir to the lost throne of a forgotten planet, the figurehead of a nomadic people fleeing the galactic tyranny of a brutal regime. Davia Sifane is the unrecognized daughter of an imperial despot... -
![Fixit by Erik Schubach]()
Fixit by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFixit, she's out of this world... This short novella follows Fixit, a worker on the surface of Tau Ceti Prime. She is an ace mechanic who keeps the automated harvesting machines in good running order. She has never missed a quota in her efforts help to feed all the people “topside” in the giant floating cities in the sky... -
![Once Upon A Galactic Time by N.D. Shar, Natalie Debrabandere]()
Once Upon A Galactic Time by N.D. Shar, Natalie Debrabandere
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsBASICALLY, I DIEDMy name is Storm Redfield: Navy Commander, Special Forces.Born on Earth in the year 2057, I don’t belong in the 23rd Century. Nevertheless, that’s where I end up following the worst betrayal of all by my own people. During my time asleep, humanity has become a spacefaring civilization. We are no longer alone in the universe, and the galaxy is at peace… More or less... -
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![Second Don by J.S. Fields]()
Second Don by J.S. Fields
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsArdulum. The planet of myth. The planet of unwanted destiny.The Charted Systems are in pieces. Mercy’s Pledge is destroyed, and her captain dead. With no homes to return to, the remaining crew sets off on a journey to find the mythical planet of Ardulum—a planet where Emn might find her people, and Neek the answers she’s long sought... -
![The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson]()
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fragile place in it, in a stunning sci-fi debut that’s both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging.Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive... -
![Seven of Infinities by Aliette de Bodard]()
Seven of Infinities by Aliette de Bodard
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsVân is a scholar from a poor background, eking out a living in the orbitals of the Scattered Pearls Belt as a tutor to a rich family, while hiding the illegal artificial mem-implant she manufactured as a student. Sunless Woods is a mindship—and not just any mindship, but a notorious thief and a master of disguise. She’s come to the Belt to retire, but is drawn to Vân’s resolute integrity... -
![The Future by Naomi Alderman]()
The Future by Naomi Alderman
Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going.The Future—as the richest people on the planet have discovered—is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction while safeguarding their own survival with secret lavish bunkers... -
![The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho]()
The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA tale of first love, bad theology and robot reincarnation in the Chinese afterlife. In the tenth court of hell, spirits wealthy enough to bribe the bureaucrats of the underworld can avoid both the torments of hell and the irreversible change of reincarnation. It's a comfortable undeath … even for Siew Tsin. She didn't choose to be married to the richest man in hell, but she's reconciled... -
![Love and Chaos by Poppy Woods]()
Love and Chaos by Poppy Woods
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe second collapse changed the world forever.Cris has spent her entire life in her Tribe. Safe from the pollution that still clings to more populated areas, they grow crops to sell in the Cities, they hunt for their meat, and they take care of their own. Their rural way of life ensures the politics of the Cities doesn't reach them.Until one day, it does... -
![My Little Green Girlfriend by Kimberly Hart]()
My Little Green Girlfriend by Kimberly Hart
When Marsha's broken teleporter sends her to Earth, her only priority is to get back to civilization. Unfortunately, she has no way to get off this primitive planet or even contact home. She's stuck here indefinitely, so she'll have to make the best of it.Sophie is surprisingly calm when the beautiful woman wandering the streets says she's from outer space... -
![And Shall Machines Surrender by Benjanun Sriduangkaew]()
And Shall Machines Surrender by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
On the dyson sphere Shenzhen, artificial intelligences rule and humans live in luxury, vying to be chosen as host bodies—called haruspices—for the next generation of AI, and thus be worshiped as gods. Doctor Orfea Leung has come here to escape her past of mercenary violence. Krissana Khongtip has come here to reinvent herself from haunted spy to holy cyborg... -
![Legacy of Love by Marianne K. Martin]()
Legacy of Love by Marianne K. Martin
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSage pulled Suzanne into her arms and kissed her deeply, melting into the silken heat. "What do you want from me?" she whispered.Suzanne pressed up into Sage's embrace, her body making demands on the skillful hands, commanding pleasure from the exciting mouth. "I need you to love me...as long as you possibly can"... -
![In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard]()
In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
From the award-winning author of the Dominion of the Fallen series comes a dark retelling of Beauty and the Beast. In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land... A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village's debts and struggling to survive in a spirit world...Categorized as:
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![The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older]()
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle.On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing... -
![The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa]()
The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA diverse, exciting debut space opera about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials—a role that may empower her to win back her nation’s independence—perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor... -
![The Stars Undying by Emery Robin]()
The Stars Undying by Emery Robin
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn this spectacular space opera inspired by the lives and loves of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, a princess finds the potential for power—and romance—after meeting the most influential military man in the galaxy. Princess Altagracia has lost everything... -
![The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard]()
The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard
Xích Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just been captured by the Red Banner pirate fleet, famous for their double-dealing and cruelty. Xích Si expects to be tortured to death-only for the pirates' enigmatic leader, Rice Fish, to arrive with a different and shocking proposition: an arranged marriage between Xích Si and herself... -
![Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff]()
Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff
Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she's far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she's no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia; in fact, she's told directly that Consul Scaeva is off limits... -
![Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir]()
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants...
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