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Ancestral Night

Elizabeth Bear - Saga Press
Format: Hardcover

A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from multi award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually....
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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: A Novel

Becky Chambers - Harper Voyager
Format: Print book

"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past....
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Leviathan Wakes

James S.A. Corey - Orbit; 1 edition
Format: Paperback

This book is the basis for the first season of The Expanse, a Syfy Original series coming December 14th 2015!
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Dune

Frank Herbert - Ace; Media Tie In edition
Format: Paperback

Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Frank Herbert's classic masterpiece - a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.A mythic and emotionally charged hero's journey, Dune tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted...
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The First Sister

Lewis, Linden - SIMON & SCHUSTER

Combining the social commentary of The Handmaid's Tale with the white-knuckled thrills of Red Rising, this epic space opera follows a comfort woman as she claims her agency, a soldier questioning his allegiances, and a non-binary hero out to save the solar system. First Sister has no name...
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A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan Book 1)

Arkady Martine - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best NovelA Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019A Best Book of 2019: Library Journal, Polygon, Den of GeekAn NPR Favorite Book of 2019A Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and "Not the Booker Prize" NomineeA Goodreads Biggest...
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Winter's Orbit

Everina Maxwell
Format: Hardcover

A famously disappointing minor royal and the Emperor's least favorite grandchild, Prince Kiem is summoned before the Emperor and commanded to renew the empire's bonds with its newest vassal planet. The prince must marry Count Jainan, the recent widower of another royal prince of the empire.But...
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Cold Welcome (Vattas Peace Book 1)

Elizabeth Moon - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vattas War sequence.. After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return...
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Christopher Paolini - Macmillan Audio
Format: Audiobook

A brand new epic science fiction novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Paolini. During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, xenobiologist Kira Navrez finds an alien relic that thrusts her into the wonders and the nightmares of first contact. Epic space battles...
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Bonds of Brass: Book One of The Bloodright Trilogy

Emily Skrutskie - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend--the man he trusts most and might even love--only to learn that he's secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire.Ettian Nassun's life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded. He's spent seven years putting himself back...
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Saga, Vol. 1

Brian K Vaughan - Image Comics
Format: Paperback

Winner of the 2013 Hugo award for Best Graphic Story! When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to bring a fragile new life into a dangerous old universe. From New York Times bestselling writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y:...
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Star Wars: Light of the Jedi

Charles Soule - Del Rey
Format: Hardcover

Two hundred years before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High Republic, the noble and wise Jedi Knights must face a frightening threat to themselves, the galaxy, and the Force itself. . . .
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Space Opera

Catherynne M Valente - Saga Press
Format: Hardcover

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Eurovision in an over-the-top science fiction spectacle from bestselling author Catherynne Valente has galaxies competing for glory in a universe-wide musical contest--where the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth. A century ago, the Sentience...
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All Systems Red

Martha Wells - Tor.com
Format: Paperback

A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence."As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."In a corporate-dominated...
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A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe

Alex White - Orbit
Format: Paperback

Furious and fun, the first book in this bold, new science fiction adventure series follows a crew of outcasts as they try to find a legendary ship that just might be the key to savings themselves-and the universe.Boots Elsworth was a famous treasure hunter in another life, but now she's...
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Pawn: A Chronicle of the Sibyl's War

TIMOTHY ZAHN - TOR
Format: Print book

Nicole Lee is a nineteen-year-old woman in Philadelphia with a dead-end life: no family, no money, and a relationship with a criminal named Bungie.That all changes after one of Bungie's "deals" goes bad. Bungie forces Nicole to drive him to the hospital to kidnap an ER doctor...
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