Cordelia’s Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold

About the book In her first trial by fire, Cordelia Naismith captained a throwaway ship of the Betan Expeditionary Force on a mission to destroy an enemy armada. Discovering deception within deception, treachery within treachery, she was forced into a separate peace with her chief opponent, Lord Aral Vorkosigan – he who was called “The…

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Space Battles – Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt

About the book Red Alert! Red Alert! This is not a dril… Anna Paradox’s “Between The Rocks”: The Courtly Vizier, a utility truck, renders aid to a colony ship but when they return to their asteroid home from supply runs to mines on Old Lumpy from Jupiter’s atmosphere, the colony ship they once helped attacks them….

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Fair Coin – E.C. Myers

Aboutthe book Sixteen-year-oldEphraim Scott is horrified when he comes home from school and finds his motherunconscious at the kitchen table, clutching a bottle of pills. The reason forher suicide attempt is even more disturbing: she thought she’d identifiedEphraim’s body at the hospital that day.  Among his dead double’s belongings, Ephraimfinds a strange coin—a coin that…

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The Frozen Sky – Jeff Carlson

About the book “The FrozenSky” is a stand-alone novella by the international bestselling author of thePlague Year trilogy. Originally publishedin the Writers of the Future XXIII anthology, “The Frozen Sky” is anear-future sci fi thriller set beneath the ice of Jupiter’s sixth moon,Europa. This story has been translated into Czech, Estonian, and Polish inmagazines overseas….

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Home Fires – Gene Wolfe

About the book Gene Wolfe takes us to a future North America atonce familiar and utterly strange. A young man and woman, Skip and Chelle, fallin love in college and marry, but she is enlisted in the military, there is awar on, and she must serve her tour of duty before they can settle down….

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Shadow Ops – Myke Cole

About the book Army Officer.Fugitive. Sorcerer.  Across the country and in every nation, peopleare waking up with magical talents. Untrained and panicked, they summon storms,raise the dead, and set everything they touch ablaze.  Army officer Oscar Britton sees the worst of it.A lieutenant attached to the military’s Supernatural Operations Corps, hismission is to bring order…

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Planesrunner – Ian McDonald + GIVEAWAY

This post has been updated with new cover art. About the book There is not one you. There are many yous. There isnot one world. There are many worlds. Ours is one of billions of parallelearths.  When Everett Singh’s scientist father iskidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterious appon his computer….

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A Fire Upon the Deep – Vernor Vinge

Aboutthe book Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit auniverse where a mind’s potential is determined by its location in space, fromsuperintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of theUnthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function.Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these “regions ofthought,” but when the warring…

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Long Eyes and Other Stories – Jeff Carlson

Aboutthe book From the mind thatbrought you Plague Year and The Frozen Sky…  SIXTEEN STORIES ABOUT STRANGE WORLDS, BIOTECH,COMMANDOS, AND THE GIRL NEXT DOOR.  “Striking.” –Locus Online  “Exciting.” –SF Revu  “Chilling and dangerous.”–HorrorAddicts.net  First published in top venues such as Asimov’sScience Fiction Magazine and cult ‘zines like The Vampire’s Crypt, thesestories have been translated into…

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The Highest Frontier – Joan Slonczewski

About the book One of the most respected writers of hard SF, ithas been more than ten years since Joan Slonczewski’s last novel. Now shereturns with a spectacular tour de force of the college of the future, inorbit. Jennifer Ramos Kennedy, a girl from a rich and politically influentialfamily (a distant relation descended from the famous Kennedy…

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