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Anderson,  Kevin J.
Scattered Suns
Galactic war rages on with the alien's fragile alliance threatening to blow apart, while the stressed leader of the Terran Hanseatic League goes to inhuman lengths to unite the contentious human race.
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Banks,  Iain 
The Algebraist
Two star-faring cultures vie for control over the enigmatic Dwellers, who alone possess the secret for creating artificial wormholes to reconnect their Ulubis galaxy with other civilizations.
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Baxter,  Stephen 
Transcendent
In this thought-provoking novel set in 2047, Michael Poole tries to save the future of humanity with the help of an apparition from half a million years into the future, in the shape of an evolved human girl.
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Bova,  Ben 
Titan
Life aboard the colony ship Goddard turns ugly for 10,000 dissidents from Earth's repressive theocracy when an exploratory probe on Titan disappears and hopes for colonization falter.
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Broderick,  Damien 
K-Machines
In Godplayers, August Seebeck discovered that he is part of a superhuman family destined to fight cyborgs in the Contest of Worlds, but he still hasn't a clue what to do. Will he find out in time?
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Brooke,  Keith  
Genetopia
In a future transformed by biotech run amok, rare 'true humans' live in fear of mutated microbes, and Flint must go on a perilous journey to find a sister who was sold into slavery among the mutant throngs.
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Bujold ,  Lois McMaster
Diplomatic Immunity
Miles returns, married and expecting a child with Ekaterin, but the honeymoon is interrupted when soldiers from his planet are imprisoned at a nearby space station, in this latest Vorkosigan stand-alone title.
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Dietz,  William C.
Runner
If humans are ever to find their long-lost home planet, messenger Jak Rebo must evade assassins and to deliver the arcane secret of interstellar flight to the new avatar of his neo-Buddhist faith.
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Eschbach,  Andreas 
The Carpet Makers
An ancient empire founded on the creation of elaborate carpets woven from human-hair begins to unravel, unlocking a 10,000-year-old secret buried in the depths of blackest space.
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Foster,  Alan Dean
The Light-years Beneath My Feet
The hilarity of Lost and Found continues as Chicago commodities trader Marcus Walker, his talking dog, and their alien companions find themselves stranded far from earth. Can Marcus' gourmet flair save them?
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Green,  Simon R.
Deathstalker Coda
Owen Deathstalker learns that his war against The Terror may rob him of Hazel d'Ark, the woman he loves, and hurtles back in time in a quest for love and honor, in this complex, action-packed series conclusion.
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Grimsley,  Jim 
The Ordinary
The arrogance of science and technology clash with the magic of old in this Lambda Award-winning tale of planetary politics, linguistics and time travel.
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Haldeman,  Joe 
Camouflage
A marine biologist makes a startling discovery off the Samoan coast that leads to the meeting of two ancient alien immortals on Earth, in this fast-paced Tiptree Award-winner.
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Hamilton,  Peter F.
Pandora's Star
In the 24th century, most humans and aliens live together peacefully, but when a barrier that has contained an angry alien race is ruptured, a cataclysmic war looms, in this thrilling space opera.
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Levinson,  Paul 
The Plot to Save Socrates
Can we travel through time and avoid death? Intrigued by a theory that the Athenian philosopher Socrates did just that, Sierra and her advisor hop along the space/time continuum to find him.
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McDevitt,  Jack 
Seeker
Nine thousand years after the disappearance of a colony spaceship originally launched to start a free society, an ancient artifact sends Alex Benedict on an intergalactic quest to find the lost colony.
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McDonald,  Ian 
River of Gods
In the year 2047, the fate of India is hangs in the balance as diminishing resources, runaway technology and poverty threaten nine varied individuals struggling against looming disaster.
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McMullen,  Sean 
Voidfarer
Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian must defend the planet Verral when it is attacked by large octopus-like creatures that seek to drain its people of life, in a story reminiscent of The War of the Worlds.
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Modesitt,  L.E. 
The Eternity Artifact
Conflict in the distant future between progressives and two faith-based cultures erupts into a struggle for new technologies when evidence of a highly-evolved civilization is discovered on an abandoned planet.
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Preston,  Douglas 
Tyrannosaur Canyon
Tom and Sally Broadbent (The Codex) race against unknown enemies to decipher an encrypted message that could be worth millions, entrusted to them by a prospector whose prospects end in murder.
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Robinson,  Kim Stanley
Fifty Degrees Below
Facing record-breaking cold, a near-future Earth is forced to deal with the ecological consequences of years of governmental inertia and public apathy, in this second book of a planned trilogy.
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Robson,  Justina 
Natural History
Futuristic genetic engineering allows for human/machine hybrids, or Forged, geared to specific ends. When Isol, a human/spaceship, finds a new planet, she tries to claim it for the Forged.
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Ryman,  Geoff 
Air, (or, Have Not Have)
A quantum communication technology called "Air" threatens the isolated and technologically illiterate community of Kizuldah, Karzistan with a devastatingly sudden plunge into modern culture.
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Sawyer,  Robert J.
Mindscan
To avoid slow death, Jake Sullivan uploads his consciousness into an android, but his biological body has a mind of its own.
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Scalzi,  John 
The Ghost Brigades
After military scientist Charles Boutin betrays humanity to alien enemies, his superhuman clone, Dirac, joins a Ghost Brigades mission to track him down, in this sequel to Old Man's War.
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Silverberg,  Robert 
In the Beginning: Tales from the Pulp Era
The subjects of these 16 short stories from prolific Silverberg's early writing career range from killer vampires to aliens to androids: a delightful time capsule from the 1950s to swallow whole!
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Stross,  Charles 
Accelerando
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Weber,  David 
At All Costs
Honor Harrington returns in another thrilling space adventure. Honor gets pregnant with Hamish's baby, puts the fetus in an artificial womb and heads off to war: how's that for girl power?
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Wilson,  Robert Charles
Spin
Tyler, Jason and Diane looked on helplessly the night the stars went out and the Earth was wrapped in a barrier that slowed the passage of time. Now they must destroy the barrier before their sun dies.
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