"I've woken up in a lot of weird places in my life, but coming to in a xith'cal escape pod was pushing it even for me."
~ from Rachel Bach's
Heaven's Queen
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The dark between the stars
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Kevin J. Anderson
A long-anticipated first installment in a trilogy set 20 years after The Saga of the Seven Suns finds the cosmos threatened by a new adversary that forces the human race to set aside internal conflicts and rebuild an alliance with the Ildiran Empire.
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Rescue mode
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Ben Bova
When a first human mission to Mars is devastated by a meteoroid strike, the spacecraft's survivors struggle against impossible odds while decision-makers on Earth confront bureaucratic political forces. Co-written by the award-winning author of Titan.
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Cibola Burn
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James S.A. Corey
In this follow-up to Abbadon's Gate, the human race - both Earth-based and "Belter" - has gained access to a seemingly infinite number of worlds outside of our solar system. As interstellar travel increases exponentially, so do conflicts between inner and outer system populations. At the center of the dispute is newly discovered, lithium-rich planet Ilus, forcing UN representative James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante to try their hands at diplomacy. Fans of sweeping, dramatic space operas that combine deft characterization with detailed world-building will want to get their hands on this 4th book in the Expanse series, which begins with Leviathan Wakes, followed by Caliban's War.
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Fiendish schemes
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K. W. Jeter
"In 1986 K. W. Jeter coined the term "steampunk," applying it to his first Victorian-era science fiction alternate-history adventure. At last he has returned, with a tale of George Dower, son of the inventor of Infernal Devices, who has been in new self-imposed exile...accumulating debts. The world Dower left when he went into hiding was significantly simpler than the new, steam-powered Victorian London, a mad whirl of civilization filled with gadgets and gears in the least expected places. After accepting congratulations for his late father's grandest invention--a walking, steam-powered lighthouse--Dower is enticed by the prospect of financial gain into a web of intrigue with ominously mysterious players who have nefarious plans of which he can only guess. If he can locate and make his father's Vox Universalis work as it was intended, his future, he is promised, is assured. But his efforts are confounded by the strange Vicar Stonebrake, who promises him aid, but is more interested in converting sentientwhales to Christianity--and making money--than in helping George. Drugged, arrested, and interrogated by men, women, and the steam-powered Prime Minister, Dower is trapped in a maelstrom of secrets, corruption, and schemes that threaten to drown him in the chaos of this mad new world"
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Memory of water
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Emmi Itäranta
After global warming changes the world's geography and its politics, and wars are waged over water, 17-year-old Noria Kaitio becomes a tea master, a position that holds great responsibility and great secrets, until her father's death forces her to chose between safety and fighting back.
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Artemis Awakening
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Jane M. Lindskold
Centuries ago, the planet Artemis was an artificial paradise that served as a vacation resort. However, after an interstellar war shattered the Empire, the high-tech tourist hotspot became a lost civilization. Archaeologist Griffin Dane rediscovers Artemis after a crash landing on the planet's surface and, aided by local woman Adara, searches for artefacts - remnants of the society's legendary technology, which he hopes will help him return home. However, Griffin and Adare aren't the only ones looking for hidden treasure, and their rivals' motivations for uncovering Artemis' secrets are nowhere near as pure as their own.
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The Forever Watch
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David Ramirez
During the thousand-year journey of the spaceship Noah, passengers live in a massive artificial city, purchasing memories of everyday sensations while doing their part to create the next generation of settlers. After telekinetic bureaucrat Hana Dempsey awakens from her nine-month compulsory "breeding duty," gestating offspring she'll never meet, she struggles to rejoin society. It's only after Peace Officer Leon Barrens requests her assistance in solving a string of baffling murders that Hana shakes off her depression and begins to ask uncomfortable questions about Noah's mission and the human civilisation they've left behind. Part science fiction mystery, part dystopian thriller, The Forever Watch places well-drawn characters in a circumscribed, yet richly detailed setting and follows their journey from innocence to understanding to agents of their own fates.
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Neptune's brood : a space opera
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Charles Stross
After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister in this new space opera from the Hugo Award-winning author of Saturn's Children.
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Authority
by
Jeff VanderMeer
In Annihilation, readers encountered Area X, a mysterious, isolated zone where travelers (un)fortunate enough to be granted access either don't return or else come back changed beyond recognition. This sequel provides answers to some of the enigmas encountered in the first book, but also raises more questions concerning the nature of Area X. Although each book in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy can be read on its own, intrepid adventurers who proceed through the novels in order will gain a deeper understanding of this strange world. Meanwhile, series fans will want to keep an eye out for the forthcoming finale,
Acceptance.
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Robogenesis: A Novel
by
Daniel H. Wilson
Archos is dead!
Long live Archos!
In this sequel to the best-selling Robopocalypse, human survivors of the New War discover that while their original A.I. nemesis has been destroyed, enough copies of it exist to launch a whole new end game. What's more, humanity isn't even central to this new conflict, in which machine battles machine for total domination. In fact, humans have two choices: they can submit to extinction, becoming collateral damage, or they can ally themselves with a robotic faction that will keep them alive until it can deploy them as expendable weapons in the fight. Structured as an oral history in the vein of Max Brooks'
World War Z,
Robogenesis
should appeal to anyone who enjoys a good robot uprising. Speaking of which, author Daniel H. Wilson has recently collaborated with John Joseph Adams to put together Robot Uprisings, an anthology of short stories on the same subject.
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