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High Tech & Military Sci-Fi

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  • Project Hail Mary

    A Novel

    by Andy Weir ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this “propulsive” (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science—in development as a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling.ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST BOOKS: Bill Gates, GatesNotes, New York Public Library, Parade, Newsweek, Polygon, Shelf ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Martian

    A Novel

    by Andy Weir ...
    Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadSix days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Ministry for the Future

    A Novel

    by Kim Stanley Robinson ...
    ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR**“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox)**The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Children of Time

    Winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award

    by Adrian Tchaikovsky ...
    series The Children of Time Novels #1
    Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Rendezvous with Rama

    by Arthur C. Clarke ...
    series Rama #1
    Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel—“a stone-cold classic” of hard sci-fi (The Guardian).An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth’s solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Far from the Light of Heaven

    by Tade Thompson ...
    “Simultaneously brutally grounded and wildly imaginative.” —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award winnerA tense and thrilling vision of humanity’s future in the chilling emptiness of space from rising giant in science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tade ThompsonThe colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousand sleeping souls to a new ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Governor

    by David Weber, Richard Fox ...
    series Ascent to Empire #1
    For more than fifty years, the Terran Republic and the Terran League have been killing one another. The death toll has climbed ever higher, year after year, with no end in sight. But the members of the Five Hundred, the social elite of the Republic’s Heart Worlds, don’t care.Rear Admiral Terrence Murphy is a Heart Worlder. His family is part of the Five Hundred. His wife is the daughter of one of ... Read more

    $12.47 CAD

  • Foundation

    by Isaac Asimov ...
    series Foundation #1
    **The first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation seriesTHE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION, NOW STREAMING • Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read**For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Redemption Ark

    by Alastair Reynolds ...
    series The Inhibitor Trilogy #2
    In the second book of The Inhibitor Trilogy, Alastair Reynolds pushes the boundaries of science fiction and "confirms his place among the leaders of the hard-science space-opera renaissance" (Publishers Weekly).Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors -- alien killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Foundation and Empire

    by Isaac Asimov ...
    series Foundation #2
    The second novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation seriesTHE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION, NOW STREAMINGLed by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Permafrost

    by Alastair Reynolds ...
    A 2019 Locus Award finalistA USA Today BestsellerFix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Misfit Soldier

    by Michael Mammay ...
    Ocean’s Eleven meets John Scalzi in this funny, action-filled, stand-alone sci-fi adventure from the author of Planetside, in which a small team of misfit soldiers takes on a mission that could change the entire galaxy.Sergeant Gastovsky—Gas to everyone but his superior officers—never wanted to be a soldier. Far from it. But when a con goes wrong and he needs a place to lay low for a while, he ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Grandfather Ghost

    by Anthony W. Eichenlaub ...
    series Old Code #2
    Retired, reclusive, and too smart to die.Hacker Ajay Andersen knows his retirement isn't always going to be sunshine and roses. He's committed to protecting those he loves, and sometimes that's not going to be easy.But things get complicated fast when he finds Silas Cardoso's body in his living room.An environmentalist entrepreneur threatens the very wilderness he once protected. Mercenaries hold ... Read more

    $6.23 CAD

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  • The Spare Man

    by Mary Robinette Kowal ...
    Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare Man.Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Activation Degradation

    A Novel

    by Marina J. Lostetter ...
    The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic, standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra.When Unit Four—a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere—is activated for the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD $1.99 CAD

  • Revelation Space

    by Alastair Reynolds ...
    series The Inhibitor Trilogy #1
    This highly acclaimed first novel in the Revelation Space universe has redefined the space opera with a staggering journey across vast gulfs of time and space to confront the very nature of reality itself . . .Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Second Foundation

    by Isaac Asimov ...
    series Foundation #3
    **The third novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation seriesTHE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION, NOW STREAMING**The Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Cibola Burn

    by James S. A. Corey ...
    series The Expanse #4
    The fourth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos. Now a Prime Original series.HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIESEnter a new frontier."An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Cruel Stars

    A Novel

    by John Birmingham ...
    series The Cruel Stars Trilogy #1
    **In this epic sci-fi adventure for fans of The Expanse and Battlestar Galactica, five intrepid heroes must unite to save civilization after a long-dormant enemy awakens and strikes a devastating blow“This jarring, engrossing story of a species-wide fight for survival is recommended for all science fiction readers.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)**The galaxy was once terrorized by the Sturm, a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Abaddon's Gate

    by James S. A. Corey ...
    series The Expanse #3
    The third book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Abaddon's Gate opens the door to the ruins of an alien gate network, and the crew of the Rocinante may hold the key to unlocking its secrets. Now a Prime Original series.HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIESFor generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • His Master's Voice

    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    From the critically acclaimed author of Solaris comes a classic sci-fi tale about scientists who must decode what may be a message from intelligent beings in outer space—for fans of ArrivalBy pure chance, scientists detect a signal from space that may be communication from rational beings. How can people of Earth understand this message, knowing nothing about the senders—including... ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Midst Toil and Tribulation

    A Novel in the Safehold Series (#6)

    by David Weber ...
    series Safehold #6
    David Weber's New York Times bestselling Safehold series of military Science Fiction adventure, which began with Off Armageddon Reef, continues with Midst Toil and TribulationWAR AND FAMINEOnce the Church of God Awaiting dominated all the kingdoms of Safehold. Then, after centuries of stasis, the island kingdom of Charis began to defy the edicts of Mother Church--egged on, some say, by the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Ancillary Justice

    by Ann Leckie ...
    series Imperial Radch #1
    Ancillary Justice is Ann Leckie's stunning debut -- the only novel to ever win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke awards -- about a ship's AI who becomes trapped in a human body and her quest for revenge. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey."There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could." -- John ScalziOn a remote, icy ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • No Honor in Death

    by Eric Thomson ...
    series Siobhan Dunmoore #1
    Siobhan Dunmoore was not having a good war. She's had more ships shot out from under her by the invading Shrehari Empire than any other officer in the Fleet. Some called her overly aggressive. Others simply called her reckless. What the enemy called her was something else altogether. That she gave the Shrehari a good drubbing along the way didn't matter in the least, because not all her enemies ... Read more

    $6.49 CAD