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Author
Publisher
Time Warner
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
Not every fallen angel comes from heaven. The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world. On planets and asteroids, individuals battle for survival against the strange and brutal forces unleashed upon the universe. Governments teeter on the brink of anarchy,...
62) Duel in the dark
Author
Series
Blood on the stars volume 1
Publisher
System 7 Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Confederation has been at war with the totalitarian Union for generations. Captain Tyler Barron of the spacecraft Dauntless is finally taken off duty so he, his crew, and his ship can recuperate but on their way to their quiet corner of Confederation space, they pick up a distress signal that may be a trap.
64) Defiant
Author
Series
[Kris Longknife] volume 3
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
With the fleet off on a propaganda mission, Wardhaven is left vulnerable to enemy warships that establish orbit around the planet, demanding surrender. Kris declares herself Commander in Chief and plans a desperate gambit to defend her world.
65) Xenocide
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Starways Congress decides that the deadly virus on Lusitania must be wiped out and sends a fleet to destroy it. After the fleet disappears, Gloriously Bright, the most brilliant mind in a world of people bred for superintelligence, is selected to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Suspected of involvement after the Regimental High Command is destroyed as they prepared to go to a new level of existence called Sublime, Lieutenant Commander Vyr Cossont must find a nine-thousand-year-old man to clear her name.
67) The last colony
Author
Series
Old man's war volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Secret missions volume 3
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After leaving Chiss space, Jedi Nuru Kungurama and the clone troopers of Breakout Squad receive orders from Chancellor Palpatine to escort the representatives of new Republic allies to Coruscant. But the mission turns deadly with the arrival of an armored warrior with ties to the Separatist Alliance. Will Nuru and Breakout Squad defeat this villainous foe, or will they meet their ends at Shattered Rock?
69) Embassytown
Author
Language
English
Description
Retaining a tenuous peace on a distant planet in the far future, humans and aliens work together through a mutually beneficial economic arrangement that is threatened by the arrival of a new group of humans that destabilizes the world's balance.
Author
Series
Old man's war volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. Theyre young, theyre fast and strong, and theyre totally without normal human qualms. The universe is a dangerous place for humanityand it's about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have...
71) Mission of honor
Author
Series
Honor Harrington volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been enemies for Honor Harrington's entire life, but Honor has a plan that may finally bring an end to the Havenite Wars and give even the Solarian League pause. But there are forces in play that Honor knows nothing about ... and that could crush the very life out of the Star Kingdom.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From the ashes of the Old Republic, an unlikely band of heroes emerges to renew the fight for freedom. Witness the epic debut of the riveting animated series, in this full-length, must-own movie, now on DVD for the first time ever! Five years before the events of Star Wars IV: A New Hope, the reigning evil Empire continues to tighten its grip of power and fear throughout the cosmos.
74) At all costs
Author
Series
Honor Harrington volume 11
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
75) Ashes of victory
Author
Series
Honor Harrington volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The People's Republic of Haven made a tiny mistake when it announced the execution of Honor Harrington. It seemed safe enough. After all, they knew she was already dead. Unfortunately, they were wrong. Now Honor has escaped from the prison planet called Hell and returned to the Manticoran Alliance with a few friends. Almost half a million of them, to be precise including some who know what really happened when the Committee of Public Safety seized...
76) Echoes of Honor
Author
Series
Honor Harrington volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
For eight bloody years, the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its allies have taken the war to the vastly more powerful People's Republic of Haven, and Commodore Honor Harrington has been in the forefront of that war. But now Honor has fallen, captured by the Peep Navy, turned over to the forces of State Security ... and executed on the interstellar network's nightly news. The Manticoran Alliance is stunned and infuriated by Honor's death and grimly resolved...
77) In enemy hands
Author
Series
Honor Harrington volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Saganami Island volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A peaceful integration of the Cluster with the Star Kingdom turns violent when corrupt Solarian League bureaucrats attempt to prevent the annexation, with only Honor Harrington's newly graduated midshipmen in their way.
79) Tiamat's wrath
Author
Series
Expanse volume 8
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable....
80) The Vor game
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
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