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In the Zenith Kingdom, kings are not born — they are remembered.
Their memories are held in the dreams of their brides-to-be. Find one of these brides, and she can bestow upon a man the powers of a ruler past.
There was a time when the Zenith Royal family had to search the galaxy for brides — now all are kept in the palace. They think they have every bride under control, they don't.
One has eluded them, and within her dreams rests the most...
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SUICIDE RACE TO LUNA The four men had been scrutinized, watched, investigated, and intensively trained for more than a year. They were the best men to be found for that first, all-important flight to the Moon-the pioneer manned rocket that would give either the East or the West control over the Earth. Yet when the race started, Adam Crag found that he had a saboteur among his crew... a traitor! Such a man could give the Reds possession of Luna, and...
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The first in the Inter-Planetary Alliance novels, cozy space operas set in a world where the rules are strict to keep people safe, but leave little room for individuality and case-by-case needs. Follow an adorable found family of space travellers as they try to navigate bureaucracy and budding relationships.-Basti needs 3 things to make his brand new– well, new to him –ship run:Firstly, He needs enough of a crew to get them safely spacebourne....
4) Triploidy
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When their baby is born with a genetic defect caused by an extraterrestrial intelligence, new parents must fight to save their child-and humanity.
A medical mystery . . . and a threat from beyond the stars.
For Jon and Marianna Knox, the birth of their daughter Persephone marks the happiest day of their lives. Until they learn that Persey is suffering from a rare but fatal condition called "triploidy."
Her doctors are baffled, and with...
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From author Frank Herbert, creator of the Dune series, comes this classic science fiction of a sadistic experiment created by a interstellar civilization ... THE DOSADI EXPERIMENT
Beyond the God Wall
Generations of a tormented human-alien people, caged on a toxic planet, conditioned by constant hunger and war-this is the Dosadi Experiment, and it has succeeded too well. For the Dosadi have bred for Vengeance as well as cunning, and they have learned...
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Mars for the Martians! Dark Kensington had been dead for twenty-five years. It was a fact, everyone knew it. Then suddenly he reappeared, youthful, brilliant, ready to take over the Phoenix, the rebel group that worked to overthrow the tyranny that gripped the settlers on Mars. The Phoenix had been destroyed not once, not twice, but three times! But, this time the resurrected Dark had new plans, plans which involved dangerous experiments in mutation...
8) Ragnars Welt
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Auf einem Planeten außerhalb des Unionsraums hat sich eine Katastrophe ereignet. Ragnar scheint der einzige Überlebende seines Planeten zu sein, doch die Tragödie muss aufgeklärt werden und so macht er sich auf den Weg zur nächsten Raumstation. Sein Notruf reißt Raumstation Void7.36 aus der täglichen Routine.
Raumpilotin Max—mitten in der Ausbildung und nicht gerade mit dem Vertrauen ihres vorgesetzten Captains ausgestattet—muss sich den...
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At the heart of the Concord, unrest is festering. Unrecognized by the Elite, the ruling class, an undercurrent of rebellion is surging through the enslaved Bond class. It's a threat that could bring down all of civilization, creating a third Dark Age. Lord Alexand, first born of the House of DeKoven Woolf, stands to inherit a vast industrial empire along with a seat on the Directorate, the Concord's ruling body. But he sees the writing on the wall...
10) Sudanna, Sudanna
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On the peanut-shaped planetoid of Ut, a 150-million-year-old computer named Mamacita rules with dictatorial control. Her every whim is a steadfast rule, and no command is stronger than the ban of Sudanna, the wind that sweeps across Ut spreading the liberating sounds of music.
Hiley OIV is one of Ut's most conscientious inhabitants, a man so afraid of losing his head (utpeople have very precarious necks) that a Bad Thought almost never enters his...
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A thrilling space opera short story from Singaporean writer Manish Melwani, "The Dominion of Leviathan," a Tor.com Original.
Lord Ajax! First and greatest Ascendant; conqueror of the Martian machine-minds; mighty Steward of Leviathan's Dominion! For a thousand years, Ajax has ruled the solar system's worlds and moons with an iron fist. But history catches up with everyone-even an immortal tyrant. On the frozen dwarf planet Ceres, a scribe composes...
12) Slave Planet
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Fruyling's World
... rich in the metals that kept the Terran Confederation going-one vital link in a galaxy-wide civilization. But, the men of Fruyling's World lived on borrowed time, knowing that slavery was outlawed throughout the Confederation-and that only the slave labor of the reptilian natives could produce the precious metals the Confederation needed!
13) Adiamante
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After ten-thousand years in exile, the cyber-warriors return in their fleet of spaceships to the planet that rejected them: Earth.
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In the prequel to the Saga of Shadows trilogy and Hugo Award nominee The Dark Between the Stars, humanity recovers from war as new threats loom.
Nine years have passed since the end of the titanic Elemental War, and the human race is still picking up the pieces. The Terran Hanseatic League has become the Confederation, and King Peter and Queen Estarra work to heal wounds among the factions of humanity, as well as with the alien Ildiran Empire.
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As the architect of IGMC's AI VELMA, CeCe Pain stumbled onto a secret so dangerous, she knew she had to act, even though it would trigger rippling consequences throughout the universe. Plagued by guilt over the lives her decisions have affected, she yearns for freedom, only to be overtaken by an incomprehensible horror that could break her forever. Now her life hangs by the thinnest thread--one woven with both love and hatred. If she makes it out...
16) Warped State
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Star Trek meets Leverage in Warped State, a space opera that's "refreshingly hopeful and heaps of fun" (Megan E. O'Keefe). Jasper Wilder is an activist, not a spy, but he'll become one if that's what it takes to stop Ravel Corporation from reviving the research project that devastated his home planet. His plan is simple enough: break into the secure facility. Steal the research data. Find a weakness and sabotage the project. But all that goes out...
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The Toxins Case: The Adventures of Constable Smith continues the story of Capella Smith from Grant Ross's previous book Read the Small Print.
Having left her flesh and blood body on Earth, Capella is now in spirit form and has adopted a new spirit body. She has teamed up with Angelina Skyward, the Chief Detective Inspector of the Interstellar Police (ISP), to pursue criminals throughout the Milky Way. Their main challenge is the Interstellar Mafia...
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In "Imperial Prince: Heir Apparent," a young boy's life is transformed when he and his mother embark on a journey to imperial space to receive medical treatment. However, their visit takes an unexpected turn when they discover that the boy's grandfather has become the ruling Emperor of the galaxy, and desires an heir to secure his legacy. In an instant, the boy finds himself thrust into a world of political intrigue, danger, and adventure as the heir...
19) Up Jim River
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There is a river on Dangchao Waypoint, a small world out beyond Die Bold. It is a longish river as such things go, with a multitude of bayous and rapids and waterfalls, and it runs through many a strange and hostile country. Going up it, you can lose everything.
Going up it, you can find anything. The Hound Bridget ban has vanished and her employer, the Kennel (the mysterious superspy agency of the League) has given up the search. But, her daughter,...
20) Firstborn
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In Brandon Sanderson's riveting "Firstborn," a Tor.com Original short story, much glory is expected of the son of a High Duke of the interstellar Empire.
And expected. And still expected, despite endless proof that young Dennison Crestmar has no talent whatsoever for war. But the life Dennison is forced to live will have its surprising lessons to impart.
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