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  Global Catastrophe: Book 2

  Ark

  by Stephen Baxter

  As the waters rose in FLOOD, high in the Colorado mountains the US government was building an ark. Not an ark to ride the waves but an ark that would take a select few hundred people out into space to start a new future for mankind. Sent out into deep space on an epic journey centuries, generations of crew members carry the hope of a new beginning on a new, incredibly distant, planet. But as the decades pass... (more)
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  Friday

  by Robert A. Heinlein

  Engineered from the finest genes, and trained to be a secret courier in a future world, Friday operates over a near-future Earth, where chaos reigns. Working at Boss's whimsical behest she travels from far north to deep south, finding quick, expeditious solutions as one calamity after another threatens to explode in her face....
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  Starship: Book 1

  Mutiny

  by Mike Resnick

  The date is 1966 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now, and the Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, finds itself in an all-out war against the Teroni Federation, an alliance of races that resent Man’s growing military and economic power. The main battles are taking place in the Spiral Arm and toward the Core, but far out on the Rim, the Theodore Roosevelt is one... (more)
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  Starship Down

  by Darrell Bain

  A starship on a circuit to service earth's colonies is sabotaged and winds up irrevocably lost in space. The only option is to find a habitable planet to live on. Aboard the ship is a contingent of convicts bound for a prison planet, an army company rotating to one of the colony worlds, government officials and scientists going or coming from the colonies, a contingent of prospective colonists going out to pioneer... (more)
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  Their Lordships Request: A Harry Heron Adventure

  by Patrick Cox

  When Midshipman 'Harry' Nelson-Heron and his life-long friend and companion, Boy Seaman Ferghal O'Connor transfer to the new '74', HMS Spartan, they are about to embark on a voyage that will take them to New South Wales, India and Arabia. In the two years this book covers, they will fight storms, pirates and the prejudice of their seniors. Harry will grow from a starry-eyed idealist into a practical and determined... (more)
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  The Stygian Conspiracy (Nexus Arcana)

  by Kodai Okuda

  A Solar System in turmoil. The mistakes and conflicts of the early twenty-first century peak in a clash of ideology and mechanized steel that spans across the planets of the inner sphere of Sol. A contention of worlds ensues as the Earth Federal Republic and Solar Empire battle for solar supremacy. On one side, caught within the currents of war, is a band of young spacemarines, the... (more)
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  Medicine Show

  by Jody Lynn Nye

  Dr. Shona Taylor and her highly trained menagerie must save an entire world of humans and alien ottles from dying at an alarming rate-of old age...
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  Taylor's Ark

  by Jody Lynn Nye

  Colony after colony, a strange epidemic is spreading. Dr. Shona Taylor is determined to find the cure before it's too late. And she is not alone. By her side is a menagerie of very special assistants. "Exciting...enjoyable space adventure...Taylor's Ark is fun and well-crafted, with a heroine you'll enjoy rooting for." ( Aboriginal SF )
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  The Kestral Voyages: Berserker

  by Steve Jordan

  Carolyn Kestral, discharged Galarchy Ranger, begins her new life as a space freighter captain and collects a small crew. But there is a question of whether the Berserker virus that forced her Ranger discharge is still capable of being activated and turning her into a deadly human weapon. If it is merely dormant, will it be set off by a clandestine first run and a dangerous run-in with the Spiders in deep space?... (more)
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  Sol

  by Steve Jordan

  The Solars are the grunts of the Union... unappreciated and maligned. Even the creation of a new drive engine, capable of taking the Union on an unprecedented trip to the Inner Arm, earns them no respect. But when the Solars discover that an alien race is on its way to take over their ancient homeworld, no race in the Union can stand in their way. A good old-fashioned space opera, with humans as the underdogs,... (more)
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  The Future Happens Twice: The Perennial Project (Future Happens Twice)

  by Matt Browne

  Debrya Handsen, a 33-year-old professor in computational linguistics at the University of Minnesota, is ready for a career change. She decides to leave her academic post and move to Nevada, where she joins a top secret project that is being sponsored by the American government. Using powerful telescopes on the far side of the Moon, the project's astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet that is... (more)
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  Star Tower

  by Joe Vadalma

  Their Tower to the Stars was a Spaceship ! Star Tower is the enthralling hard science story of the first manned starship, how it came into being and what happens on its long journey. John Huck, a bitter veteran of an exploitative war fought for control of the solar system, returns to the earth ghetto where he was born to discover his parents murdered by Earth's repressive government. Seeking revenge, he joins an... (more)