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  The Black Company: Book 9

  Water Sleeps

  by Glen Cook

  Regrouping in Taglios, the surviving members of the Black Company are determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain. Journey there under terrible conditions, they arrive just in time for a magical conflagration in which the bones of the world will be revealed, the history of the Company unveiled, and new world gained and lost...all at a terrible price.
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  The Reality Dysfunction

  by Peter F. Hamilton

  The year is 2600 AD. Mankind has a come far, colonizing numerous planets outside of the Sol system, and encountering a few alien races along the way. Technology has progressed exponentially, to the point where mankind has split between the Edenists, and the Adamists. The Edenists have cultured biotechnology, creating living ships, and full telepathy with each other, their ships, and their habitats. They have even... (more)
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  The Naked God, Part 1: Flight

  by Peter F. Hamilton

  The Confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the `possessed' to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal doesn't quite match her own. The campaign to liberate Mortonridge from the possessed degenerates... (more)
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  The Ender Quartet: Book 4

  Children of the Mind

  by Orson Scott Card

  The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and... (more)
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  Ender's Shadow: Book 1

  Ender's Shadow

  by Orson Scott Card

  The human race is at War with the “Buggers”, an insect-like alien race. As Earth prepares to defend itself from total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable enemy, all focus is on the development of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth—they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging... (more)
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  The Wheel of Time: Book 9

  Winter's Heart

  by Robert Jordan

  The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
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  The Wheel of Time: Book 8

  The Path of Daggers

  by Robert Jordan

  The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
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  Homecoming Saga: Book 5

  Earthborn

  by Orson Scott Card

  High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica . On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundred of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth. She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly--there are cities and... (more)
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  Ender's Shadow: Book 2

  Shadow of the Hegemon

  by Orson Scott Card

  The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more. But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are more than... (more)
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  Homecoming Saga: Book 3

  The Ships of Earth

  by Orson Scott Card

  The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continents to where Harmony's hidden spaceport lies silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar ships ready for flight again. But of these sixteen people, only a few have chosen their exile. The others, Rasa's spiteful daughters and their husbands; Wetchik's... (more)
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  The Tales of Alvin Maker: Book 4

  Alvin Journeyman

  by Orson Scott Card

  Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century. Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and try to teach anyone who wishes to learn the knack of being a Maker. For Alvin has had a vision of the Crystal City he will build, and he knows that he cannot build it alone. But he has left behind in... (more)
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  The Tales of Alvin Maker: Book 5

  Heartfire

  by Orson Scott Card

  Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. She can follow the paths of each person's future, and know each person's most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him, she has protected him. Now they are married, and Peggy is a part of Alvin's heart as well as his life. But Alvin's destiny has taken them on separate journeys. Alvin... (more)
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  Greg Mandel: Book 2

  A Quantum Murder

  by Peter F. Hamilton

  Dr Edward Kitchener, is a brilliant researcher into quantum cosmology for the Event Horizon conglomerate, but no good to anybody now, lying dead with his lungs spread out on either side of his open chest. The security system at Launde Abbey was premier-grade, yet a mercenary could still have got through, and plenty of people anxious to stop Kitchener's work would pay the killer's fee. But why would a professional... (more)
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  The Neutronium Alchemist

  by Peter F. Hamilton

  Humanity is in incredible peril. The minds of those long dead are taking over the bodies of the living, in increasingly alarming numbers. Joshua Calvert is desperately trying to recover a "doomsday weapon", an instrument that might blast the dead back into oblivion--but in the wrong hands, it could mean the end of the human race.
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  Second Chance at Eden

  by Peter F. Hamilton

  This novella and six stories are set in the same universe and time-line as the "Night's Dawn" trilogy.