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22) Cryoburn
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Dispatched to investigate an immortality company's attempt to expand into the Barrayaran Empire, troubleshooter Miles discovers a generational conflict over resources before finding a young boy with a passion for pets and a dangerous secret.
23) Blue Mars
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Mars trilogy volume 3
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English
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After declaring independence from Earth, Mars still faces problems: an impending ice age, a search for religious meaning, and immigration. New medical discoveries enable people to live 200 years, causing overpopulation on Earth and the Martians object to being swamped by Earthmen. A replay of New World problems in space. By the author of a trilogy, of which this is the last volume.
24) Falling free
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When engineer Leo Graf arrives at a free fall station circling a mining planet to teach welding, he's in for his first shock: the genetically engineered inhabitants have an extra set of arms in place of legs. A second shock comes when the company that owns these four-armed "quaddies" decides to abandon them, and Leo must use all his ingenuity to respond to this new crisis. Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and a Hugo Award finalist.
25) March to the sea
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Marooned on a barbaric world, Prince Roger MacClintock, the Royal Brat, and his Royal Marines take on barbarian hordes and fierce monsters as they make their way to a distant port that holds their only hope for escape.
26) Carve the mark
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Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
28) The Shiva option
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"Like some carnivorous cancer, the "Bugs" had overrun planet after planet ... The Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Corm, united in desperate self-defense."--Jacket.
29) Dragon and thief
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Dragonback volume 1
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English
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Falsely accused of stealing from the powerful corporation, Braxton Universis, orphaned fourteen-year-old Jack, accompanied by his "virtual" Uncle Virge, flees to a remote planet where he meets and develops a mutually beneficial relationship with the dragon warrior, Draycos.
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2023.
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When an entire town seemingly vanishes from a planet with conditions favorable to life, Alex Benedict and his archaeological crew must solve the mystery of how these aliens disappeared so rapidly--and why--which raises the stakes as they each look to maketheir mark on history.
32) Crown of slaves
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With its ally Erewhon growing restive, the Star Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth sends a mission to Erewhon, but upon arriving at their destination, they find a conspiracy led by the Solarian League's military delegation.
33) Dragonsblood
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Dragonriders of Pern volume 18
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2005.
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English
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With the dragons of Pern dying and the only person who can save them long dead, the grieving dragonriders find clues in the lyrics of an ancient ballad to long-forgotten knowledge and secrets hidden somewhere in Benden Weyr.
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Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy volume 1
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English
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Chronicles the journeys, notions, and acquaintances of reluctant galactic traveler Arthur Dent.
36) Ancillary mercy
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Imperial Radch volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
Description
In the stunning conclusion to the Imperial Radch trilogy, a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist. A messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai, ruler of an empire at war with itself. Breq refuses to flee with her ship and crew, because that would leave the people of Athoek in terrible danger. The odds aren't good, but that's never...
37) Angel-seeker
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Forced to live as a servant in her cousin's household, Elizabeth journeys to Cedar Hills hoping to attract the attention of an angel, while Rebekah, who has been raised to hate the angels, comes to the aid of an injured angel near her village.
38) The last colony
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Old man's war volume 3
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English
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Serving his human colony on distant Huckleberry as a village ombudsman, retired fighter John Perry looks forward to settling into farm life with his wife and adopted daughter before he is drawn back into the dangerous interstellar politics of his past.
39) Dragon Harper
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2007.
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English
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As a deadly epidemic sweeps across the land of Pern, only Kindan, a young apprentice to the guild of musicians and teachers known as the Harpers, recognizes the imminent peril and must come up with a way to stop the illness from spreading.
40) Old man's war
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Old man's war volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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In the future, the elite space force is made up of experienced, post-retirement soldiers. John Perry joins this army on his seventy-fifth birthday with the hopes of gaining a homestead on an alien planet. But nothing has prepared him for the wild ride ahead.
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