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1) Space Opera
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More than five-hundred pages, over one-quarter of a million words . . . Space Opera spans a vast range of epic interstellar adventure stories told against a limitless cosmos filled with exotic aliens, heroic characters, and incredible settings. A truly stellar compilation of tales from one of the defining streams of science fiction, old and new, written by a supernova of genre talent.
2) Space opera
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294 pages ; 22 cm
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"Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization. Something to cheer up everyone who was left. Something to celebrate having escaped total annihilation by the skin of one's teeth, if indeed one has skin. Or teeth. Something to...
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The universe is in peril. Everyone has a secret. Someone has to take a stand. A group of intergalactic misfits uncover an ancient evil that threatens the very existence of the universe. The Shades Space Opera Trilogy is over 365.000 words (~1.350 pages) of epic adventure, and has sold thousands of copies.It's a fantastic ride across the universe, so buckle up and engage! This boxed set includes the complete trilogy:✓ Starcrasher – Shades Space...
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They say bad news comes in threes, but trouble can multiply.
With HiveZ on the way to the Crab Nebula and annihilation, Tessa Graham is finally ready to relax. After more than a thousand years fighting mankind's worst enemy, she deserves a break.
Unfortunately, fate has other plans.
Jordan Hightower is a man with responsibilities – the first of which is providing for his young sister, LouAnn. The quick-thinking privateer is always looking for...
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This is the entire Ostinato Series:
Book one:
Live life on the edge of sanity.
Trevor, an orphan at thirteen, bounced around the Far-east searching for something, trouble was he didn't understand what. Wracked with insomnia and tired of traveling the world, he'd returned home to be more "normal" and took a job from his older brother, he failed at normal. When world events reignite his pursuit of the inexplicable to a sleepy West Texas town, his world...
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Sloane Tarnish doesn't mean to collect enemies like a Nano-Healer collects germs. They just keep showing up, for absolutely no reason at all. Yes, she hired her last bounty target to work on her ship instead of turning him in. And yes, she supposes she can see why the Cosmic Trade Federation might take issue with that. They don't have to shoot at her over it, though. When Sloane's new client offers her a lead on her uncle's whereabouts in exchange...
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Escaping death should have been the final act of Commander Faith Benson's career. Resuscitation technology makes death temporary for essential personnel, and after her run-in with Azoren Federation Marines, Faith finds herself in that position. But she's revived for a specific purpose: a mission that's just as hopeless as the one that killed the Pandora crew. Once again, she's sent into Azoren Fedaration space, only this time she's in command of a...
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Hero or criminal? After completing another impossible mission, Commander Faith Benson heads home to Kedraal, uncertain of her fate. With no idea who really ordered her into enemy territory, she feels like a pawn in a complicated game playing out between rival intelligence agencies and political factions. But her worries are quickly overcome by greater threats not just to her task force but to the Kedraalian Republic itself. Amidst diabolical political...
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One wrong move means interstellar war. Faith Benson was a distinguished officer heading for a promising career. Then came her assignment to the Pandora. A posting aboard a search-and-rescue ship was usually the end of the line in the Kedraalian Republic Navy. When an accident sends the Pandora into the demilitarized zone separating the Republic from its greatest enemy, the ship's reckless captain follows an SOS signal into enemy territory. Once the...
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When a star blows up, someone's going to pay.Humanity has been fighting the alien threat for decades, and the war just ratcheted up a notch. Sent to aid a dreadnaught under siege, Dani Devereaux and the crew of Alaska's Vengeance find themselves caught in a trap.A trap that brings a new ultimate weapon to the battlefield, destroying an entire star system.Narrowly escaping, she returns home to find victory parades turned into lines of questioning reporters...
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A fall from grace. A second chance. But can you ever truly go home?Captain Dani Devereaux is back and tasked with a new, top-secret mission. But not everybody is happy to see her.To Dani, her crew is her family. But even family can feel betrayed. The one thing she didn't count on when she threw herself under the bus is the contention her sacrifice would cause among her crew.Dani's actions shook their confidence in her, and her confidence in herself....
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Something shockingly scary this way comes?
Commander Adella Vega of the Alliance navy - aka Hell-Fleet - is stuck at the dog-end of the galaxy on punishment duty with the Fleet's losers, thieves, and pedantic pen-pushers.
Adella thought that was bad enough. Until large portions of her sector just went dark. Is something big, bad, and particularly nasty now heading her way?
And what does her predicament have to do with the free-trader captain...
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What would you do to save your people?
Captain Faith Benson brought the most powerful task force ever assembled into Gulmar space to form an alliance against their mutual enemies, the Azoren Federation. That alliance went out the window when the Gulmar capital was destroyed by an even greater threat: the Khanate.
Now Benson and the last of the Gulmar security forces must travel to the Azoren home world of Himmel to strike a deal with their psychotic...
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Death hides in the shadows.Following a sneak attack by the Azoren Federation, Captain Faith Benson seeks an alliance to save the Kedraalian Republic. But the threat is worse than anyone could have known, and the lines between enemy and ally constantly shift. With an unstable ideological zealot commanding a dangerous component of her allied fleet, Faith finds herself caught between enemies bent on genocidal solutions. Millions of lives depend on her...
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An archaeologist and a treasure hunter make an unlikely--and steamy-- pair in this action-packed space opera romance from Anna Hackett.
Dr. Eos Rai has spent a lifetime dedicated to her mother's dream of finding the long-lost Mona Lisa. When Eos uncovers tantalizing evidence of Star's End-the last known location of the masterpiece-she's shocked when her employer, the Galactic Institute of Historic Preservation, refuses to back her expedition....
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Some jobs will turn you into a zombie. Literally. Episode 1: Captain Jayde Thrin of the cargo ship Determination has one goal: make enough money to retire in style. Her small mercenary crew travels the universe taking odd jobs, but when a botched gig lands them in hot water, it's up to Jayde to figure out their escape – and their survival. Episode 2: A genetically designed plague has ravaged the birthplace of humanity, leaving millions of undead...
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It is the far distant future, five thousand years after the Divine Deliverance of Earth. For Starship Captain Marie Antoinette, escaping to the stars has become second nature, a fulfilling necessity-a means to control outcomes. Suddenly, though, everything Marie thought she wanted falls into question when her starship is savagely attacked and destroyed by an unsettlingly familiar cyborg. Crash landing her escape pod on the stealth juggernaut Hout,...
18) Fighting Chance
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A new space opera series from S. H. Miah. Fast action and tense moments wrap over a narrative spanning a galactic war for the ages. Khaled Malik heads the line for The Hunters, New Earth's most elite task force. His mission: to end the decades long war plaguing New Earth and her worst enemies. But the mission transforms in ways Khaled could have never foreseen. A routine infiltration uncovers hidden truths that shake the very foundations of the war....
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They lost the revolution. But then, they found sanctuary-and hope.
Telepathic warrior Talia Avi, genius engineer Miki Boudreaux, and augmented soldier Faigin Balfour fought the fascist Federated Colonies for ten years, following the charismatic Dissenter Jon Churchill. Then Jon disappeared, Talia was thought dead, and Miki and Faigin struggled to take Jon's place and stay alive.
When the FC is unexpectedly upended, Talia is reunited with her dearest...
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An explosive, exhilarating, tour-de-force science fiction novella grabbing readers with the first word pulling them deep into the story. Reminding readers why Connor Whiteley is a force of nature in the science fiction genre.
Imprisoned for crimes he never committed and surviving an attack like no other, Commander Sebastian Crawley must fight to clear his name and recover a prisoner before much darker plans reach fruition.
From its explosive start...
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