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En la vastedad del universo, donde la oscuridad cósmica se mezcla con la danza de las estrellas, existe un rincón misterioso que desafía la lógica y estira los límites de nuestra comprensión: el agujero negro. Este fenómeno gravitacional, donde la gravedad se vuelve implacable y la luz se desvanece en la insondable negrura, ha sido el tema de especulación, asombro y fascinación a lo largo de la historia de la astronomía.En este viaje intergaláctico,...
2) Fugitive
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After helping clear a colony of vicious parasites, Seb Zodo has come back from his most recent mission with more questions than answers.How did the grubs find their way to Carstic in the first place?Does it have anything to do with Moses?Could the leader of The Shadow Order be that callous in his pursuit of wealth?To find out the truth Seb has to defy his obligation to The Shadow Order and go A.W.O.L.In a galaxy where Moses holds great power, Seb...
3) Pirate Sun
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Virga volume 3
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Return to Virga, a bubble universe artificially separated from our own future universe, and the setting ofSun of Suns and Queen of Candesce.
Chaison Fanning, the admiral of a fleet of warships, has been captured and imprisoned by his enemies, but is suddenly rescued and set free. He flees through the sky to his home city to confront the ruler who betrayed him. And perhaps even to regain his lovely, powerful, and subversive wife, Venera, who he has...
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A world of endless sky, with no land, no gravity: this is Virga. Beginning in the seminal science fiction novel Sun of Suns, the saga of this striking world has introduced us to the people of stubborn pride and resilience who have made Virga their home; but also, always lurking beyond the walls of the world, to the mysterious threat known only as Artificial Nature. In The Sunless Countries, history tutor Leal Hieronyma Maspeth became the first human...
5) Prophecy
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Seb Zodo didn't sign up to be the chosen one. Burdened by a prophecy claiming he'll defeat the darkness spreading though the galaxy, he goes on every mission hoping it will be his last. But every time he returned to the Shadow Order's base, he knew he had more to come. Until now …The fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance and with chaos ruling supreme, Seb and his Shadow Order friends need to act fast. Their final mission ahead of them, they...
6) Exposed
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Haftan thought he'd escaped the Heart... until it showed up to kill him.As the Shrouded ambassador, Haftan has everything he's ever wanted, except for a clean conscience. No matter how he tries to shake his past, the future whispers that he is tainted, unworthy of the heart bond so sacred to his people.When an alien ship appears with a terrifying claim against Shroud, Haftan sees the chance to redeem himself. But along with the dangerous Irisian message...
7) Chief Radvar
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Chief Radvar's ship and crew go through a space anomaly and find they've gone back in time and somewhere so far away in space that they don't recognize where they are. A scientist suggests they might be near Earth. But that was a legend that didn't really exist, right?Shay finds that her whole life changes when two alien space ships start orbiting Earth. The aliens on one ship are definitely the enemy but are the others as benevolent as they seem...
8) Crossfire
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In the early nineties, Nancy Kress took the SF world by storm with her multiple award-winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," which became the basis for her extremely successful Sleepless Trilogy (comprising Beggars in Spain, Beggars and Choosers, and Beggars Ride). Since then she has written more than a dozen novels, including the well-received Probability Trilogy, which Booklist praised saying "Kress's characterizations are as sound as ever, but many...
9) Engine City
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The Concluding Volume of the Engines of Light
With Cosmonaut Keep and Dark Light, both finalists for science fiction's Hugo Award, Ken MacLeod launched a new interstellar epic with all the engaging characters and ingenious SF inventiveness of his earlier Fall Revolution novels. Now MacLeod delivers the culmination of his epic of a human future crammed with innumerable varieties of intelligent alien life, and in which humans find themselves involved...
10) Be Kind, Rewind
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May and Xan are stranded in the city of Not-Tuhnt without the Audacity, and May can't let it go, but when Xan and Aimz succumb to the Carmnian Scourge, an inhibition-eating brain fungus, May has a new problem to fixate on.
May must seek the help of old friends, enemies, Xan's horrible aunt, and a haunted Big Mouth Billy Bass to invent a cure before Xan and Aimz go feral and someone breaks open the Universe-ending Piñata.
Fun, fast-paced, and surprisingly...
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Humanity has spread to every star within 500 light-years of its half-forgotten origin, coloring the sky with a haze of habitats. Societies rise and fall. Incautious experiments burn fast and fade. On the fringes, less modified humans get on with the job of settling a universe that has, so far, been empty of intelligent life.
The ancient starship But the Sky, My Lady! The Sky! is entering orbit around a promising new system after a four hundred year...
12) Heaven's Gate
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As an operative for the Qoarthi Empire's Internal Security Service, Manolo Garces investigates and brings to justice all manner of plots against the Empire's integrity.No villain ever escapes his grasp.Until a plot against the Emperor's sister draws him into deeper waters than he ever imagined he would wade.Heaven's Gate is a short science fiction story.
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In the distant Andromeda Galaxy, humanity faces a brutal war against the mysterious Zentari aliens. Captain Jenna Reynolds, Zentari warrior Xalorix, and scientist Dr. Liara Chen navigate betrayals, sacrifices, and shifting alliances as they lead their people towards a peaceful resolution. Amidst gritty space battles and moral dilemmas, they discover mutual respect and forge a path towards cooperation and understanding in a shattered galaxy. Hope for...
14) Lockstep
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When seventeen-year-old Toby McGonigal finds himself lost in space, separated from his family, he expects his next drift into cold sleep to be his last. After all, the planet he's orbiting is frozen and sunless, and the cities are dead. But when Toby wakes again, he's surprised to discover a thriving planet, a strange and prosperous galaxy, and something stranger still-that he's been asleep for 14,000 years.
Welcome to the Lockstep Empire, where...
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LOST IN THE FIRES OF WAR…Freelance explorer Dr. Brooklyn Stevens made her career finding lost artifacts from Inner Sphere history, but a job offered by the academic organization known as Interstellar Expeditions gives her a chance at the find of a lifetime: a missing planet, one lost in the ravages of the brutal Succession Wars.But the world of Jardine did not die in planet-scouring fire…it was entirely erased from stellar maps-and Brooke's employer...
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Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polymorph, and Evolution's Darling, follows The Risen Empire with the next thrilling space opera in Succession, the Killing of Worlds.
Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial frigate Lynx is a walking dead man. Unjustly held responsible for the death of the Child Empress, sister of the immortal Emperor, Zai has been sent to fight an unwinnable battle. The Lynx must stop a vastly superior Rix ship from...
17) Severed Squadron
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Even badass vigilantes need mechanics. Joka Bunear is just a lowly grease monkey in a gang full of bigger and stronger alien vigilantes. Not to mention a human. To level the playing field, she invents a spacesuit and is finally invited on a field mission … as a joke. After the mission is sabotaged and the gang goes into hiding, Joka intercepts a message meant for her boss regarding a kidnapped scientist, but the leader refuses to pursue the lead....
18) Resistance
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Administrator Jane Murphy is exiled from the sequestered home habitat upon her lone child's majority. Her mate stays to mate with another. She becomes addicted to Quench, a carcinogenic depression medication, in a world without hope. While her aunt plays with destruction, her powerful mother plots with imprisoned teens to kidnap Jane, the Administrator who incarcerated them. Jane's escapes to the polluted Outside changes everything. Yet there's no...
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Celestial Bonds explores friends becoming lovers as navigator Kaia leans on mechanic Lucas while on family leave. Jackal and Kroseph traces the unlikely sparking of something deeper between flirtatious fighter Jackal and disinterested server Kroseph. Veteran Ranger Lyrea answers a call, finding the sender staged an attack to steal resources in Ranger Danger. Navigating family, duty, and tragedy, these interstellar tales showcase the future of romance...
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Romo is sent to Earth for a successful mating since Earth is a potential source of female mates for their mostly male race. Things are very different than he expected there but he believes he has found his one and he intends to woo her to his side.Bree is looking for her cousin Davy who disappeared at this very casino she's visiting. Sure, they all say she's in a isolated country, married and happy but how gullible does everyone think she is? It's...
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