Science Fiction - Alien Contact

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This Gulf of Time and Stars: Reunific...

Julie E. Czerneda

This Gulf of Time and Stars begins the hard sci-fi Reunification series, perfect for space opera readers looking for unique aliens and interstellar civilizations. Sira di Sarc, the leader of an alien race hiding in plain sight amo...

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Published: Sep 2016

Dark Orbit

Carolyn Ives Gilman

From Nebula and Hugo Award–nominated Carol Ive Gilman comes Dark Orbit, a compelling novel featuring alien contact, mystery, and murder. Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilizati...

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Published: May 2016

Way Station

Clifford D. Simak

An ageless hermit runs a secret way station for alien visitors in the Wisconsin woods in this Hugo Award-winning science fiction classic Enoch Wallace is not like other humans. Living a secluded life in the backwoods of Wisconsin, he ...

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Published: Jul 2015

Binti

Nnedi Okorafor

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her famil...

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Published: Sep 2015

Lambda

Whoever the lambdas might be, and wherever they really come from, they’re already here among us. Outwardly alien arrivals from a distant sea, the lambdas are genetically human. The government has noticed them. So has a whole g...

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Published: Jul 2022

The Redemption of Time: A Three-Body ...

Baoshu

Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of Time continues Cixin Liu’s multi-award-winning science fiction saga. This original story by Baoshu—published with Liu&rsquo...

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Published: Jun 2020

The Massacre of Mankind: Sequel to Th...

Stephen Baxter

A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen BaxterIt has been fourteen years since the Martian invasion. Humanity has moved on, always watching the...

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Published: Aug 2018

Prime Directive

Davis Bunn

Lieutenant Amanda Bostick is ordered to investigate why scientists on a distant outpost on the planet of Lorian are being murdered with no alarm raised. "In the past ninety days, sixteen colonists have been murdered, and nobody t...

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Published: Mar 2022

Adulthood Rites (Lilith's Brood, 2)

Octavia E. Butler

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or...

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Published: Aug 2021

Imago (Lilith's Brood, 3)

Octavia E. Butler

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of humanity, a new kind of alien-human hybrid must come to terms with their identity — before their powers destroy what is left of humankind.Sinc...

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Published: Dec 2021

Steal the Stars

Nat Cassidy

Steal the Stars, a debut novel by Nat Cassidy, is based on the science fiction podcast from Tor Labs, written by Mac Rogers. Dakota "Dak" Prentiss guards the biggest secret in the world. They call it "Moss." It's y...

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Published: Nov 2017

Divergence (Foreigner)

C. J. Cherryh

The twenty-first book in the beloved Foreigner saga continues the adventures of diplomat Bren Cameron, advisor to the atevi head of state.The overthrow of the atevi head of state, Tabini-aiji, and the several moves of enemies even si...

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Published: Sep 2021

Emergence (Foreigner)

C. J. Cherryh

The nineteenth book in the beloved Foreigner space opera series begins a new era for human diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace between human refugees and the alien atevi.Bren Cameron, acting as the representative ...

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Published: Jan 2019

Resurgence (Foreigner)

C. J. Cherryh

Now in mass market, the twentieth book in the beloved Foreigner saga returns to the trials of diplomat Bren Cameron, as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi. Bren Cameron, diplomat ...

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Published: Aug 2020

The Fall of IO

Wesley Chu

The superb aliens-in-your-head SF sequel to the wildly popular The Rise of Io, by the author of The Lives of Tao seriesWhen Ella Patel's mind was invaded by the Quasing alien, Io, she was dragged into the raging Prophus versus Genjix ...

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Published: Jan 2019

The Rise of Io

Wesley Chu

Ella Patel – thief, con-artist and smuggler – is in the wrong place at the wrong time. One night, on the border of a demilitarized zone run by the body-swapping alien invaders, she happens upon a man and woman being chased by a gr...

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Published: Oct 2016

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke

Winner of the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula awards upon its release in 1973, Rendezvous with Rama is widely regarded as one of the cornerstones of Grand Master Arthur C. Clarke's work. By the year 2130, the solar system has b...

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Published: Nov 1990

Persepolis Rising (The Expanse)

James S. a. Corey

The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series. Now a major television series.An old enemy returns.In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their...

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Published: Oct 2018

The Twice-Dead King: Ruin (Warhammer ...

Nate Crowley

Peer into the into the bizarre culture and motivations of the Necrons in this great novel from Nate Crowley. Exiled to the miserable world of Sedh, the disgraced necron lord Oltyx is consumed with bitterness. Once heir to the thron...

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Published: Aug 2022

Radio Free Albemuth

Philip K. Dick

A visionary alternate history of the United States filled with enough conspiracy theories to thrill the most hardened paranoid, Radio Free Albemuth is proof of Dick's stature as our century's greatest science fiction writer.

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Published: Oct 2020

Axiom's End (Noumena, 1)

Lindsay Ellis

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The alternate history first contact adventure Axiom's End is an extraordinary debut from Hugo finalist and video essayist Lindsay Ellis. Truth is a human right. It’s fall 2007. A we...

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Published: Aug 2021

Shatterworld

Lelia Rose Foreman

Fleeing persecution and low on fuel, religious refugees from Old Earth find themselves stranded on a planet with a dark history. The promise of a future is shadowed by a dreadful past. Twelve-year-old Rejoice Holly is expected to so...

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Published: Jun 2015

Planet of the Damned

Harry Harrison

Classic Science Fiction adventure from the creator of The Stainless Steel Rat and Bill the Galactic Hero. Brion has just won the Twenties, a global competition that tests one' achievements in 20 categories of human activities. But Bri...

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Published: Sep 2003

Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Heinlein's Hugo Award-winning all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a science fiction classic.Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never s...

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Published: May 1987

The Pursuit of the Pankera: A Paralle...

Robert A. Heinlein

First paperback publication of the national bestseller by one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time. “An absolutely essential and 'must read' novel for the legions of Robert Heinlein fans, The Pursuit of the Panke...

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Published: Apr 2021

The Race for God

Brian Herbert

Who needs Heaven? God, it turns out, lives on the planet Tananius-Ofo in the distant galaxy 722C12009. And now, after countless millennia, He's invited us to come visit Him. Not everybody, mind you. Just an odd assortment of heathen...

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Published: Aug 2016

Seeker One (Voyages of the Seeker)

Clint Hollingsworth

In the tradition of the early Heinlein space stories, 1st in "Voyages of the Seeker" series.Tanner Voss has an entire year left at the Terran Exploratory Force academy, so no one is more surprised than Tanner himself when he...

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Published: Mar 2019

Skin Folk: Stories

Nalo Hopkinson

World Fantasy Award Winner: Fiction that “combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling,” by the author of The Salt Roads (Library Journal). In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction ...

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Published: Jul 2018

Battlefield Earth

L. Ron Hubbard

Suspense, politics, war, humor and intergalactic finance. A towering masterwork of science fiction adventure and one of the best-selling science fiction novels of all time, L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth opens with breathtaking sc...

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Published: Jun 2016

Larva

J. D. Huff

Decades ago something crashed into Illiamna Lake along the coast of southern Alaska. After countless eons drifting through space, an orb from the farthest reaches of the universe finally found a home. It delivered its payload and then...

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Published: Jun 2018
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