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Expanse volume 2
Description
The second book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series.
HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
We are not alone.
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous...
HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
We are not alone.
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous...
8) Embassytown
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
345 p.; 24 cm.
Description
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
x, 384 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
After orchestrating a galaxy-wide failure of the communications network owned and maintained by the powerful ISC corporation, Gammis Turek and his marauders strike swiftly and without mercy. First they shatter Vatta Transport. Then they overrun entire star systems, growing stronger and bolder. No one is safe from the pirate fleet. But while they continue to move forward with their diabolical plan, they have made two critical mistakes.
10) Redshirts
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.
11) Flag in exile
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 5
Pub. Date
2002, ©1995
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 17 cm.
Description
Struggling to deal with her lover's murder and forced retirement, Captain Honor Harrington assumes the role of Steadholder on the planet Grayson, but a threatening uprising calls her back into duty as head of the Grayson navy.
12) Revan
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
298 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Revan, a former Jedi whose memories have been erased, believes that he somehow stumbled on a secret that threatens the existence of the Republic and must try to stop it, even though he no longer knows what it is.
13) Deceived
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
332 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Description
A novelization of plots in the online video game "Star Wars: The Old Republic" shares the story of a mysterious Sith Lord who defies the Empire and destroys the Jedi Temple, setting the stage for the Treaty of Coruscant.
Author
Series
Saga of seven suns volume 6
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Description
In the aftermath of a devastating war, swarms of ancient black robots built by the lost insectoid Klikiss race continue their depredations on helpless worlds with stolen and heavily armed Earth battleships.
Among the humans, the Hansa's brutal Chairman struggles to crush any resistance even as King Peter breaks away to form his own new Confederation among the colonies who have declared their independence.
And meanwhile, the original, voracious...
Among the humans, the Hansa's brutal Chairman struggles to crush any resistance even as King Peter breaks away to form his own new Confederation among the colonies who have declared their independence.
And meanwhile, the original, voracious...
15) At all costs
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 11
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
855 pages : maps ; 24 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.).
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.
17) Out of the dark
Author
Series
Shongairi series volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
381 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
A master sergeant prowling the back country of the Balkans and a firearms instructor and former Marine find themselves at the center of a growing network of resistance against an invading force of alien, carnivorous Shongari intent on annihilating the human race.
18) Raven stratagem
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
"Captain Kel Cheris is possessed by a long-dead traitor general. Together they must face the rivalries of the hexarchate and a potentially devastating invasion."--Amazon.com.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
284 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.
20) Greater good
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Thrawn ascendancy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
When a mysterious enemy strikes at the very foundation of the Ascendancy by widening the rifts between the Nine Ruling Families and Forty Great Houses, Thrawn and his allies must decide what matters most--the security of their family or the survival of the Ascendancy itself.
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