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  • Some Desperate Glory

    The Hugo Award-winning novel

    by Emily Tesh ...
    **WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL****SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD**** SHORTLISTED FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE****SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL**'An instant classic' Guardian'An outstanding novel . . . one of the debuts of the year' Locus'Deserves a space on shelves alongside genre titans ... ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD

  • Red Lightning

    by John Varley ...
    Series series The Thunder and Lightning Series
    The sequel to Red Thunder is “a cosmic coming-of-age novel . . . [with] enthralling everyday heroics” from a Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author (Paul Di Filippo, SciFi.com).It doesn’t matter that Ray Garcia-Strickland’s father was one of the first men on Mars. The now overdeveloped planet has lost its hip factor, its luxurious hotels—like the one Ray’s father manages—overrun with gravity ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Cyborg for the Alien Mercenary

    by Mina Carter ...
    Series Book 1 - Alien Mercenaries
    She's a cyborg with a forgotten past. He's an alien mercenary with a heart of gold.All Jesh wants is to understand who—and what—she is. Waking up in a human medical facility with no memory, a voice in her head and strange abilities, she knows she doesn't belong. She certainly knows that she's never seen her 'family' before. Then her mother tries to kill her…Enter the alien mercenary team, the ... Read more

    $10.66 AUD

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  • Starcruise

    A Stealing the Sun Short Story

    by Ron Collins ...
    Series series Stealing the Sun
    Alex is graduating the Academy. His father takes him on a star cruise. But when your father is a high-ranking member of the United Government, nothing is as it first appears.STARCRUISE, a short story in the STEALING THE SUN universe of bestselling Science Fiction author and frequent Analog contributor Ron Collins. ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shadow of the Torturer

    Urth: Book of the New Sun Book 1

    by Gene Wolfe ...
    Series Book 174 - Gateway Essentials
    So begins one of the most celebrated stories in fantasy literature . . . packed full of mystery, deep themes and incredible prose, meet Severian the Torturer and follow him on his journey across the great world of UrthSeverian is a torturer, born to the guild and with an exceptionally promising career ahead of him . . . until he falls in love with one of his victims, a beautiful young noblewoman ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD

  • BattleTech: Shrapnel, Issue #18

    (The Official BattleTech Magazine)

    by Philip A. Lee, Editor ...
    Series Book 18 - BattleTech: Shrapnel
    UNCHARTED TERRITORYShrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine is your map and compass for discovering heavy-hitting tales of BattleMech combat on the battlefields of the Hinterlands!Former Jade Falcon cadets who found a new home within the Kell Hounds are pushed to the breaking point of loyalty when ordered to hunt down Falcon holdouts. Plagued by raids and unrest, the Malthus syndicate seeks to ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ogres

    by Adrian Tchaikovsky ...
    Series Book 3 - Terrible Worlds: Revolutions
    Ogres are bigger than you.Ogres are stronger than you.Ogres rule the world.It’s always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call.Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size and strength and appetites. It’s always been that way. It’s the natural order of the world. And they only eat people sometimes.But when the headman’s son, Torquell, dares lift his ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

  • The Three-Body Problem

    Now a major Netflix series

    by Cixin Liu ...
    Translated by Ken Liu ...
    Series Book 1 - The Three-Body Problem
    Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – now a major Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind.Four decades later, Beijing police ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Children of Memory

    by Adrian Tchaikovsky ...
    Children of Memory follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award, and Children of Ruin. It is set in the same universe, with new characters and a thrilling narrative.They dreamed of a new homeThey woke to a nightmareOn Imir, Captain Holt founded a new colony on an empty world. In the process, he created hope and a new future for humanity. But ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • Second Contact

    by Mike Resnick ...
    The captain of a spaceship had shot and killed two of his crewmen, and Major Maxwell Becker, a military lawyer, is assigned as his defense attorney. The captain claims that the two were aliens, and refuses to plead insanity. Becker decides the easiest way to get the captain to change his plea is to show him the futility of putting together the defense the captain insists upon – until his witnesses ... Read more

    $6.35 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Babylon's Ashes

    Book 6 of the Expanse (now a Prime Original series)

    by James S. A. Corey ...
    Series Book 6 - Expanse
    NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL SERIESBabylon's Ashes is the sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series.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 ring gates are easy prey, and no single ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Whiplash River

    A Novel

    by Lou Berney ...
    “Like Carl Hiaasen, Berney delights in the cartoonish. Like Elmore Leonard, he can drive a plot. What sets him apart is how well he evokes love, making the romance…as compelling as the mystery.”—Boston GlobeLou Berney immediately earned a seat of honor at the mystery masters’ table with his crackling caper novel, Gutshot Straight—a lightning-fast, fiendishly clever suspenser that screamed for a ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

  • The Sword of the Lictor

    Urth: Book of the New Sun Book 3

    by Gene Wolfe ...
    Series Book 211 - Gateway Essentials
    Banished for the sin of mercy, Severian, one of the ancient guild of Torturers, flees from exile. In a mountain wildernessSeverian, the disgraced apprentice torturer, has reached his place of exile - Thrax, the city of Windowless Rooms, where he must take up his post as Lictor, executioner and torturer. However, he flees the city and heads into the mountains. There he meets the Alzabo, in whom ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Impersonations

    by Walter Jon Williams ...
    New York Times-Bestselling, Nebula Award–Winning Author: “One of the great space opera series of all time continues . . . [a] masterful writer.” —James Patrick Kelly, Hugo Award–winning author of The First Law of ThermodynamicsHaving offended her superiors by winning a battle without permission, Caroline Sula has been posted to the planet Earth, a dismal backwater where careers go to die. But Sula ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

    by Roger Williams ...
    "...a true hard SF epic with tones of Charles Stross and Hannu Rajenemi." -- Damien Walter, The Guardian"...evokes the essential contradictions in Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics..." -- Marc Donner, IEEE Security & PrivacyIn the best possible future, there will be no war, no famine, no crime, no sickness, no oppression,no fear, no limits, no shame......and nothing to do.In a time not far ... Read more

    $6.87 AUD

  • Once a Hero

    by Elizabeth Moon ...
    Series Book 4 - Serrano Legacy
    Fleet Lieutenant Esmay Suiza never wanted to become a hero. After a traumatic, war torn childhood and years of being plagued by nightmares, she is content to spend her years with the Fleet following orders and staying under the radar. Even after she finds ... Read more

    $8.79 AUD

  • Operation Oracle

    Merkiaari Wars 3

    by Mark E. Cooper ...
    Series Book 3 - Merkiaari Wars
    Burgton will preserve mankind, even if he has to break every single law to do it.General Burgton's self-imposed mission is to safeguard the Alliance from future Merkiaari attacks. As the black missions Burgton authorizes begin to fail, he spends trillions of dollars on a forbidden solution: artificial intelligence.When the project collapses, Burgton compounds his crime. If he can't build an A.I., ... Read more

    $5.99 AUD

  • Extensis Vitae: The Complete Series

    by Gregory Mattix ...
    Series series Extensis Vitae
    This is the complete Extensis Vitae series, books 1-4.Michael Reznik is a soldier who wakes up in a mysterious underground bunker, with a technologically advanced body he doesn't recognize. The people around him have cast aside fighting and warfare. They haven't needed them--until now.Reznik is charged with tracking down a band of ruthless killers and finding a kidnapped doctor. He finds himself ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • Alien Former - The Prequel

    Alien Former, #0.5

    by Ashley L. Hunt ...
    Series Book 0.5 - Alien Former
    Joanna, a sensitive and courageous woman with a dark past, want to go as a settler and colonize to an Alien Planet.To do this, she has to train herself with her new equipment. The only companion to this travel will be her equipment. Or at least, this is what she thinks....Until then, she will find a person from her dark past. She doesn't remember anything about him...Is he friend? Is he an enemy? ... Read more

    $1.29 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • BattleTech Legends: Double-Blind

    by Loren L. Coleman ...
    Series series Battletech Legends
    Using fast and furious hit-and-run tactics, Marcus GioAvanti and his Avanti's Angels mercenaries have earned a tough reputation throughout the Inner Sphere. But the Inner Sphere isn't where their newest job is taking them—because their latest employer resides in that remote and mysterious region of space known as the Periphery...The Magistracy of Canopus has been the target of aggression by the ... Read more

    $8.30 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Timeliner

    by Charles Eric Maine ...
    Series series Classic Science Fiction
    A fantastic adventure in time…His name was Hugh Macklin. He had a good life in our time with a beautiful wife and a promising career. Then, without warning, in a fraction of a second, he was shot 80 years into the future. He was out ahead of everything he knew, excavating for uranium on the moon in another man’s body!Here is a provocative story of tomorrow and of one man forced to fight through ... Read more

    $0.99 AUD

  • The Gambler

    by Paolo Bacigalupi ...
    In this Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated short story, a Laotian journalist, Ong, tries to succeed in an American news agency where glamorous “click-bait” stories drive revenue, and in-depth news stories are a dying breed. As Ong struggles to survive in the newsroom, he must choose whether he will pursue clicks and success, or stay true to his ideals, and risk everything because of it.“The Gambler” ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD

  • Alien Cube - Prequel

    Alien Cube, #0.5

    by Ashley L. Hunt ...
    Series Book 0.5 - Alien Cube
    Jasih is handsome and cruel. Lorena, a lovely special agent. When these two dynamic personalities come face to face, both turn each other's life upside down. Join Lorena & Jasih in their mission to save the world from the catastrophic weapon • The new series of pure lust. Get the Prequel 100% FREE for ALL! ... Read more

    $1.29 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Citadel of the Autarch

    Urth: Book of the New Sun Book 4

    by Gene Wolfe ...
    Series Book 172 - Gateway Essentials
    Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, carrying with him the Claw of the Conciliator and the great sword, Terminus Est. All his travels are leading towards a destiny that he dare not refuse . . .Winner of the John W. Campbell Award for best novel, 1984 ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD