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Orbit
Pub. Date
2023
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The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds - except that they're really just the one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an AI threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they'll eradicate it by whatever means necessary, no matter the cost to human life. Scientist Hadiz Tambuwal is looking for a solution to her own Earth's environmental collapse when she stumbles across the secret...
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Tor
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During a routine survey mission on an uncolonised planet, xenobiologist Kira Navarez finds an alien relic that thrusts her into the wonders and nightmares of first contact. Epic space battles for the fate of humanity take her to the farthest reaches of the galaxy and, in the process, transform not only her - but the entire course of history.
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Tor
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The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery. Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade his mind in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien enemy. Many escaped, but millions more died. So mankind created enhanced humans - such as Idris - who could communicate mind-to-mind with our aggressors....
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Gollancz
Pub. Date
2023
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In the year 2255, a woman named Salma, twenty years old, is the first to fully see - with her own eyes, albeit moderated by her ship's instruments - the object called Planet Nine. See, but not recognise what it was. Not yet. Not that the object turned out to be a planet, or the 'ninth' of anything. Briefly thought to be a black hole, it suddenly changes, expands and sends a message. There is something waiting on its service. Something not quite human....
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Tor
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After 80 years of fragile peace, the galaxy's greatest alien enemy is back. Waging a brutal one-sided war, the Architects consume entire planets under their unfathomable directive. In the past, Originator artefacts - vestiges of a long-vanished civilization - could save a world from annihilation. Yet the Architects have discovered a way to circumvent these protective relics. Suddenly, no planet is safe. Facing impending extinction, the Human Colonies...
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2023
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Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade - to learn human ways, and eventually, make a match and serve as an intermediary between the dangerous alien Presger and the human worlds. The realization that they might want something else isn't 'optimal behavior'. It's the type of behavior that results in elimination. But Qven rebels. And in doing so, their path collides with those of two others. Enae, whose dead grandmaman has...
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Solaris
Pub. Date
2023
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Mickey7 is no longer an Expendable and now his real troubles have begun. The colony is in decline, he has no special skills to justify his continued drain on resources except the antimatter he used to bargain for his freedom. With the colony's very existence on the line, he must get it back, or die trying.
8) Galaxias
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Gollancz
Pub. Date
2021
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By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has managed to overcome a series of catastrophic events and maintain some sense of stability. Space exploration has begun again. Science has led the way. But then one day, the sun goes out. Solar panels are useless, and the world begins to freeze. Earth begins to fall out of its orbit. The end is nigh. Someone has sent us a sign.
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2021
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The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having travelled light years from home to bring 1000 sleeping souls to safety among the stars. Some of the sleepers, however, will never wake - and a profound and sinister mystery unfolds aboard the gigantic vessel. Its skeleton crew are forced to make decisions that will have repercussions for all of humanity's settlements - from the scheming politicians of Lagos station, to the colony planet of...
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With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships travelling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. One of the many establishments present is the Five-Hop One-Stop, a place where long-haul spacers can stretch their...
11) Alien clay
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Tor
Pub. Date
2024
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When xeno-biologist Arton Daghdev is exiled to an alien planet, he journeys through a dangerous and hostile wilderness. Yet on his expedition, he uncovers lost alien ruins - and the mysterious builders who abandoned them.
12) Eversion
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Gollancz
Pub. Date
2022
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A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and mysterious artefact. It's a well-funded expedition, well organised, which is lucky as they're sailing north of Bergen on the schooner Demeter, searching for a narrow inlet which will lead them to their goal - a vast uncharted lake. Then disaster strikes. If any of them are to survive, Doctor Silas Coade will have to take the exploration - and the lives of the crew - into his own hands....
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Gollancz
Pub. Date
2022
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In 2145AD John Hackett's adventure is just beginning. In Year 30, Mela's story is coming to a close. Hackett, in his trusty ship the Perseus, is not just a space traveller - beginning his travels with an expedition to Neptune and back - but, thanks to the time-dilation effect, a time traveller as well. His new mission will take him to Andromeda, to get a close-up look at the constellation which will eventually crash into the Milky Way, and give humanity...
15) Foundation
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Harper Voyager
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Long after earth was forgotten, a galaxy took shape, an Empire governed from the city-planet of Trantor. The system worked, and grew, for generations. Everyone believed it would work forever, except Hari Seldon.
16) Fractal noise
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Tor
Pub. Date
2023
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'Fractal Noise' is the prequel to the space opera 'To Sleep in a Sea of Stars'. On the planet Talos VII, twenty-three years before the events of 'To Sleep in a Sea of Stars', an anomaly is detected - a vast circular pit, with dimensions so perfect that it could only have been the result of conscious design. So a small team is assembled to learn more - perhaps even who built the hole and why. Their mission will take them on a hazardous trek to the...
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Gollancz
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Miguel de Ruyter is a man with a past. Fleeing the 'wolves' - the xenocidal alien machines known as Inhibitors - he has protected his family and community from attack for forty years, sheltering in the caves of an airless, battered world called Michaelmas. The slightest hint of human activity could draw the wolves to their home, to destroy everything - utterly. Which is how Miguel finds himself on a one-way mission with his own destructive mandate:...
18) Machine vendetta
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Gollancz
Pub. Date
2024
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Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city states orbiting the planet Yellowstone. Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and virtually unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organisation? As his colleagues pick up the pieces, Dreyfus must face his conscience. Four years ago, when an investigation...
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Gollancz
Pub. Date
2023
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The world is changing, and humanity must change with it. Rising seas and soaring temperatures have radically transformed the face of Earth. Meanwhile, Earth is being observed from afar by other civilizations - and now they are ready to make contact. Vying to prepare humanity for first contact are a group of dreamers and changemakers, including Peter Hendrix, the genius inventor behind the most advanced VR tech; Charyssa, a beloved celebrity icon with...
20) Cataclysm
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Del Rey
Pub. Date
2023
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Here is the next adventure in The High Republic, set after the events of Convergence and The Battle of Jedha.