18 books like Mara's Choice
Mara's Awakening
As the leader of the Star Corps, the galaxy’s elite peacekeeping force, Mara Keres was respected throughout the stars. But now, betrayed by her oldest friend, Kottura, she finds herself rotting in a prison cell, surrounded by the criminals she put away.
When all seems lost, her new cellmates offer her a chance at escape. She’ll take anything she can get her hands on, but is it a trap? Before…
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Flashes Of Memory
**Delve into Flashes Of Memory: a collection of captivating stories of awe-inspiring futures.**
Assembled in this radiant collection are bite-sized marvels of ‘hopepunk’ science fiction – a sub-genre championing optimism in the face of adversity. Embark on thrilling journeys to distant galaxies, encounter life on uncharted planets, and marvel at advanced technologies and their profound impact…
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Up the Line
Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event, without meeting yourself coming or going. Trickier still was avoiding the temptation to become intimately involved with the past and interfere with events to come. The deterrents for any such actions were frighteningly…
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Stand by for Mars!
STAND BY FOR MARS! finds the three young "rocketeers" at the Space Academy undergoing the arduous training of Space Cadets. When their tactical training cruise crash lands on Mars, their desperate adventures on the planet of burning deserts and endless canals will make them seasoned veteran spacemen -- if they live long enough for rescue!STAND BY FOR MARS is the first in the Tom Corbet, Space…
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On Vicious Worlds
"The Jeveni have finally found freedom on planet Capamame, delivered from oppression through their alliance with Cleric Chono, intrepid caster Jun Ironway and Six, the wildly unpredictable manipulator who has outwitted the Nightfoot family.
But when Six and Chono return to the Treble star systems, the dream of freedom meets a dangerous test. The Secretaries of the Kindom are intent on…
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The Mercy of Gods
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is about to end. The Carryx – part empire, part hive – have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin.
Caught up in academic intrigue and…
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The Ascendancy War
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Victims of the Nova
Victims of the Nova
The Complete Zarathustra Trilogy
When the star Zarathustra went nova, the desperate survivors packed themselves into spaceships and fled in all directions. Habitable worlds were few, and colonizing a new planet requires much more than just settling a newly discovered island of Old Earth. New planets were different in thousands of ways, and the differences could mean disaster. Brutal…
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Prodigal Storm
Two weeks ago, the AI that raised LJ forced her to murder the man she loved.
But Conor survived. He wants nothing to do with the woman who tried to kill him, and yet LJ's got the only crew brash enough to chase after his father--who's a step away from twisting every AI in the Toccata System to serve his greed.
Conor's desperate, and he's got a scheme of his own: shut down Toccata's AIs,…
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Empire of the Fallen
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The Soldier (Rise of the Jain)
Her mission is vital, her failure is unthinkable. A corner of space swarms with lethal technology, created by a long-dead race called the Jain. It's guarded by Orlandine, tasked with keeping it contained, or it could destroy entire civilisations. Dragon, an alien intelligence, shares her vigil, but she doesn't share everything with Dragon...Orlandine plots to obliterate this tech swarm, for some…
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The Warship
The haiman Orlandine, charged with safeguarding lethal Jain tech swirling inside an accretion disc located in the distant reaches of space, has weaponised a black hole to eliminate the threat. But others are suspicious of her motives, and both the Polity AIs and the leaders of the alien prador kingdom dispatch fleets of warships in anticipation of conflict.
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In the Lion's Mouth
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Partners in Necessity
The first 3 Liaden universe novels, 'Conflict of Honors', 'Agent of Change', and 'Carpe Diem', in one collection. This is where to start if you want to read the Liaden series.
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Agent of change
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Up Jim River
**Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn returns to space opera with *Up Jim River*.**
There is a river on Dangchao Waypoint, a small world out beyond Die Bold. It is a longish river as such things go, with a multitude of bayous and rapids and waterfalls, and it runs through many a strange and hostile country. Going up it, you can lose…
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Cetaganda (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)
Cetaganda (Miles Vorkosigan Adventures)
Miles Vorkosigan and his cousin Ivan are sent on a diplomatic mission to the court of the Cetagandan Empire, Barrayar's former enemy. This sophisticated, genetically advanced but in many ways alien society both fascinates and repels, and when the Cetagandan Empress and her attendant die suddenly, Miles and Ivan find themselves embroiled in intrigues that are hard to fathom. Ivan's romances and…
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Shattermoon
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