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[Brainship] volume 4
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English
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When invaders arrive at the peaceful space station, Simeon's only hope of protecting his crew of 20,000 is to become The City Who Fought. One of science fiction's most popular writers joins forces with a new star of military science fiction to tell the story of a shell person who had to become the military hero he always dreamed of.
22) At all costs
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Honor Harrington volume 11
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Honor Harrington has been called to command Eighth Fleet against the Republic of Haven, but when she discovers the Star Kingdom is badly outnumbered by the Republic's fleet, the cost of victory will be agonizingly high.
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An official novelization of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" follows a band of rebels on a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans.
As the shadows of the Empire loom across the galaxy, the Rebellion learns that an Imperial machine of unimaginable destructive power is nearing completion. If the worlds stand any chance, it lies with an unlikely band of allies: Jyn Erso, a resourceful young woman seeking vengeance; Cassian Andor, a war-weary rebel...
24) A rising thunder
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Honor Harrington volume 13
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English
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Confronting a new and technologically powerful enemy after a brutal attack on the Manticoran home system, Honor Harrington learns of a Mesan Alignment plot to enslave the entire human species and prepares for a defense that places the Star Kingdom at terrible risk.
25) Invincible
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Lost fleet beyond the frontier volume 2
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English
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When his fleet's hyperspace jump lands them in the midst of a massive, hostile alien armanda, Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary tries to find a way to destroy the enemy while questioning the orders that led him right to them.
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Saga of seven suns volume 7
Publisher
Orbit
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English
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The conclusion to the Saga of Seven Suns series features a final stand in an epic clash against galactic civilizations that pits the factions of humanity against one another.
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Saga of seven suns volume 5
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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A climactic battle begins between the Ildiran Solar Navy, the Earth Defense Forces, the Roamers, green priests, Klikiss robots, and hydrogue warglobes--a fury that will destroy many and change the landscape of the Spiral Arm forever.
28) The swarm
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Second Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army, but China has been devastated by the Formics' initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage...
29) Hidden empire
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Saga of seven suns volume 1
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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Humans, ambitious for new territory, see the galaxy as theirs for the taking. After all, they share the universe with only two alien species, one harmless and one extinct. But when the humans use a piece of technology from the extinct Klikiss, they discover yet another alien species -- one which they've inadvertently submitted to a genocide of mass proportions.
30) Bloodline
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When the Rebellion defeated the Empire in the skies above Endor, Leia Organa believed it was the beginning to a lasting peace. But after decades of vicious infighting and partisan gridlock in the New Republic Senate, that hope seems like a distant memory. Now a respected senator, Leia must grapple with the dangers that threaten to cripple the fledgling democracy -- from both within and without. Underworld kingpins, treacherous politicians, and Imperial...
31) The forever war
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The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sanddespite the fact that the fierce alien enemy that they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through military ranks. Pvt. Mandella...
32) The hot gate
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Tyler Vernon and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station "Troy" face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny. And the very survival of the Earth and its people is not all that is at stake. The galaxy itself must choose to live free or die--and if the tyrants win this battle, darkness will fall across the galaxy for millennia to come.
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Saga of seven suns volume 2
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Early in the 25th century, humans ignited a fierce war with the hydrogues. Now the gas-giant planets, once a major source of fuel for Earth, are off limits, and the fearsome hydrogues scour the solar system, incinerating humans and the trees of the worldforest. As political unrest spreads throughout Earth's space colonies, a possible ally is discovered: an ancient race of water-based creatures.
34) Metal swarm
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Saga of seven suns volume 6
Publisher
Orbit
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English
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While the Earth is overrun by swarms of ancient robots built by the not-so-extinct Klikiss race, King Peter breaks away from the resistance-crushing forces of the Hansa's brutal Chairman in order to forge independent colonies.
35) In enemy hands
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Honor Harrington volume 7
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English
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Honor Harrington is sent straight to the heart of an ambush that forces her to choose between watching her people killed or surrendering to the Peeps, a prospect that dooms her to execution or a lifetime of imprisonment on an inescapable planet.
36) The Vor game
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When his boyhood chum, Gregor, the Imperial Emperor, goes awol, chance places the exiled ensign Miles Vorkosigan in a position to extricate Gregor, the Dendarii Mercenaries, and himself from a very sticky and potentially deadly political situation.
37) Defiant
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Skyward volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she is willing to go for victory.
Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answers to the questions she's had about her own strange Cytonic gifts. The Superiority didn't stop in...
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Safehold volume 1
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English
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With humankind reduced to a single colony on the world of Safehold, the human rulers of the planet, in an effort to preserve the remnants of their industrial civilization, build a religion designed to hide the colony by keeping its society medieval.
39) Cytonic
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Skyward volume 3
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English
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Fighter pilot Spensa Nightshade has been embroiled in an alien empire's war and now, to figure out what she really is, she must leave her world behind to enter the Nowhere, a mysterious realm from which those who enter rarely ever return.
40) Rebel rising
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Follows the adventures of Jyn Erso as she trains under Saw Gerrera and learns how to become a proper rebel, preparations that come in handy when she is asked by the Rebellion to find out about the weapon that her father is helping the Empire construct.
When Jyn Erso was five years old, her mother was murdered and her father taken from her to serve the Empire. She was taken in by Saw Gerrera, a man willing to go to any extremes necessary in order...
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