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Narrates the background story of Shepherd Book, a crew member of the starship Serenity, who, after being discharged from the Alliance following a failed mission, enters a monastery and decides to come aboard the Serenity as a missionary.

Scientist Nen Yim, ordered to find weak spots in the technology of a captive Zonama Sekot ship, makes startling discoveries that have implications for the future of the Yuuzhan Vong people, while General Wedge Antilles, attempting to retake the Bilbringi system, becomes stranded in Yuuzhan Vong territory.

"There wasn't much money to be made as a Trailblazer, searching out new worlds for possible development. Still, it was safer than the bounty hunter career that had cost Gregory Roarke his left arm six years ago. And thanks to his Kadolian partner Selene's ultrasensitive sense of smell, they occasionally discovered a medically promising seed or spore they could sell under the table. It was a quiet life, uneventful and mostly legal. Until Roarke was...

"The sixth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series from Syfy! A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien...

In this sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Arthur Dent has finally made it home to Earth, only to discover that it is about to be blown up ... again. What could a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer, and at least one very large slab of cheese have to do with all of this?

With the help of her "uncles" and the thousands of humans who love and admire her, Acorna has found her true people, the peaceful, telepathic Linyaari. But Acorna still has much to do before she can enjoy her new home. The legendary resting place of the lost Linyaari ancestors has yet to be found. And with the help of a rogue spacetrader and his feline sidekick, Acorna must strive to right an unspeakable wrong and defeat an enemy even crueler than...

"The Sentinels narrowly escaped the collapsing edge of the Divide. They have mustered a few other surviving Sentinels, but with no engines, they have no way to leave the edge of the universe before they starve. Adequin Rake has gathered a team to find thematerials they'll need to get everyone out. To do that they're going to need new allies and evade a ruthless enemy. Some of them will not survive"-- "J. S. Dewes continues her fast paced, science...

In the sequel to "Deathstalker," outlaw Owen Deathstalker and his band of washed-up warriors, pirates, and aliens battle the tyrannical Queen Lionstone XIV to preserve the galaxy's freedom.

Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. In Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons, and have survived earlier “death waves,” gamma ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally...

"The Coast Guard must prevent the first lunar war in history. A lifelong Search-and-Rescuewoman, Coast Guard Captain Jane Oliver is ready for a peaceful retirement. But when tragedy strikes, Oliver loses her husband and her plans for the future, and finds herself thrust into a role sheâs not prepared for. Suddenly at the helm of the Coast Guardâs elite SAR-1 lunar unit, Oliver is the only woman who can prevent the first lunar war in history, a conflict...