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The Key [MultiFormat]
by Pauline Baird Jones
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When Sara Donovan joins Project Enterprise she finds out that what doesn't kill her makes her stronger.... An Air Force pilot--the best of the best to be assigned to this mission--Sara isn't afraid to travel far beyond the Milky Way on an assignment that takes her into a galaxy torn apart by a long and bitter warfare between the Dusan and the Gadi. After she's shot down and manages to land safely on an inhospitable planet, Sara encounters Kiernan Fyn--a seriously hot alien with a few secrets of ... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 141976 - Reading Time: 405-567 min.
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Winterfair Gifts [Vorkosigan Series Book 15] [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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In the festive season of Winterfair on the planet Barrayar, Lord Miles Vorkosigan's long-awaited wedding is the occasion for romance and intrigue for bioengineered space mercenary Sergeant Taura and shy, diffident Armsman Roic. (Published: 2004) Hugo Award Nominee, Romance Readers Anonymous Listserv Award Winner, Fictionwise eBook of the Year (2005)
Words: 23091 - Reading Time: 65-92 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Romance
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Shards of Honor [Vorkosigan Series Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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First novel in the popular series that begins with the inauspicious meeting of Betan astrocartographer Cordelia Naismith and Barrayaran Captain Aral Vorkosigan during a treacherous war. As captor and prisoner on an abandoned outpost planet, the honorable captain and the resolute scientist must rely on each others' trust to survive a trek across dangerous terrain, thus sparking a relationship that shares the struggles of culture and politics between their worlds. (Published: 1986) Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 78689 - Reading Time: 224-314 min.
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Dragonfly in Amber [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Diana Gabaldon
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From the author of Outlander ... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland ... For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ... about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ... and abou... more info>>
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Girl Gone Nova [MultiFormat]
by Pauline Baird Jones
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Doc--Delilah Oliver Clementyne's--orders are simple: do the impossible and do it yesterday. A genius/bad ass, she does the impossible on a regular basis. But this time the impossible is complicated by an imminent war between the Earth expedition to the Garradian Galaxy and the Gadi, an encounter with some wife-hunting aliens, and not one but two bands of time travelers. The only way it could get worse? If the heart she didn't know she had starts beating for the wrong guy? (Published: 2010)
Words: 139194 - Reading Time: 397-556 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Romance
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Outlander [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Diana Gabaldon
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Claire Randall is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another ... In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon--when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord ... 1743. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot und... more info>>
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The Vor Game [Vorkosigan Series Book 5] [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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[Sequel to "The Warrior's Apprentice"] Miles Vorkosigan graduates from the Barrayaran Military Academy with high expectations of ship command, but is disappointed with an assignment as meteorologist to Lazkowski Base, an arctic training camp. His tenure in the windy, snow-covered north is cut short when Miles narrowly averts a massacre between the trigger-happy base commander and mutinous recruits. After a brief stay under 'house arrest', Miles is re-assigned to investigate a suspicious military... more info>> (Published: 1990) Locus Poll Award Nominee, Hugo Award Winner, HOMer Award Nominee, SF Chronicle Poll Nominee, Seiun Award Nominee, Fictionwise eBook of the Year (2002)
Words: 98365 - Reading Time: 281-393 min.
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A Tail of Two SKittys [Shipscat Series #2] [MultiFormat]
by Mercedes Lackey
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Dick White, cat handler for the space ship Brightwing, knew that his shipscat was intelligent, but he hadn't expected her to come to the rescue when he and his shipmates were kidnapped. (Published: 1994)
Words: 5034 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Homesmind [MultiFormat]
by Pamela Sargent
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Anra is a solitary. She was born without the power to mindspeak and cannot, like all of her fellows can, communicate in unspoken thoughts. In the past, she would have been killed at birth but the arrival of the Wanderer, the comet controlled by the cybernetic intelligence known as the Homesmind has changed everything. The people of the comet, the skydwellers, now supply solitaries with implants that allow artificial mindspeaking. The solitaries are sequestered in a single village willing to care... more info>> (Published: 1984)
Words: 67200 - Reading Time: 192-268 min.
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SKitty [Shipscat series #1] [MultiFormat]
by Mercedes Lackey
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The Captain thought that their shipscat would be an asset at the trade negations, so he ordered Dick to bring her with them. Dick had warned her repeatedly not to hunt on this planet, but what cat ever does what a human tells her to? (Published: 1989)
Words: 5162 - Reading Time: 14-20 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Voyager [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Diana Gabaldon
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From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues. Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her ... and he... more info>>
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Memory [Vorkosigan Series Book 12] [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. At least that's what Miles Vorkosigan thinks and he should know, having done both once already. That was when he last visited the planet of Jackson's Whole, while rescuing his brother. Thanks to quick thinking on the part of his staff, and incredible artistry on the part of the specialist who revived him, his first death won't be his last. But his next one might be, a realization he finds profoundly unsettling. Even after he returns to military duty, h... more info>> (Published: 1996)
Words: 135056 - Reading Time: 385-540 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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SCat [Shipscat series #3] [MultiFormat]
by Mercedes Lackey
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When Dick White set out to discover the origins of the ship's new cat, he certainly never expected to find himself involved with the Drug Interdiction group of the Patrol. (Published: 1996)
Words: 6124 - Reading Time: 17-24 min.
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The Planet Savers [Darkover series] [MultiFormat]
by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Elisabeth Waters
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Darkover was experiencing a flare-up of trailmen's fever, a disease that would decimate the entire human population of Darkover, from the Comyn to the Terrans. The Medical Branch at Terran HQ had the start of a cure, but in order to finish it, they needed trailmen to come out of their mountain heights and donate blood. Only one man on Darkover stood any chance of persuading the trailmen to help, but he occupied the same body as the doctor capable of doing the medical side of the work, and he was... more info>> (Published: 1958)
Words: 30064 - Reading Time: 85-120 min.
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Barrayar [Vorkosigan Series Book 2] [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Second novel in the popular SF Vorkosigan series. Cordelia Naismith has deserted her home planet and a career in astrocartography for her husband Aral Vorkosigan, who has just been appointed Regent of Barrayar by the dying Emperor. As Lord and Lady Vorkosigan, they struggle to establish stability in a fragile government thrown into confusion by the transition of power. When a palace coup endangers the government, their lives, and her unborn son, Cordelia takes action to secure the safety of her ... more info>> (Published: 1991) Hugo Award Winner, Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Locus Poll Award Winner
Words: 104037 - Reading Time: 297-416 min.
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Cetaganda [Vorkosigan Series Book 6] [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Cetaganda is another installment in the Hugo-award winning adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, in which Miles and Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of the nobility doing their diplomatic duty by good old Barrayar. The idea is that they will gain diplomatic polish on this simple mission, but when the Cetagandan empress dies naturally and her lifelong attendant dies unnaturally--apparently a suicide, but there are rumors--Miles and Ivan find themselves in the thick of it. Miles tr... more info>> (Published: 1996) Seiun Award Nominee, HOMer Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 85082 - Reading Time: 243-340 min.
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Drums of Autumn [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Diana Gabaldon
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The magnificent saga continues.... It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past--or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend--a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again... more info>>
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The Warrior's Apprentice [Vorkosigan Series Book 4] [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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Miles Naismith Vorkosigan comes of age. After failing the Barrayaran Military Academy physicals, the brittle-boned, dwarfish son of Cordelia and Aral Vorkosigan uses a clever touch of creativity to finance a shipment of munitions into a war zone. When the simple merchant expedition draws the attention of an unexpected enemy, Miles is forced to masquerade as commander of a fictional fleet of hired guns he names after the mountains near his home--the Dendarii Mercenaries. His original crew of misf... more info>> (Published: 1986) Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 99705 - Reading Time: 284-398 min.
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Brothers in Arms [Vorkosigan Series Book 10] [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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The daring interspace rescue of an entire Cetagandan POW camp by the Dendarii Mercenaries made for some deadly enemies. Having finally outrun the infuriated Cetagandans, Admiral Naismith (a.k.a. Lord Miles Vorkosigan) and the Dendarii arrive on Earth for battle shuttle repair and a well deserved rest. When the Mercenaries' payroll doesn't arrive on time and someone tries to kill Miles, he realizes he's in trouble again. Miles must juggle both his identities at once to unravel the complicated plo... more info>> (Published: 1989)
Words: 90575 - Reading Time: 258-362 min.
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Ethan of Athos [Vorkosigan Series Book 7] [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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[An independent novel in the Vorkosigan universe.] Dr. Ethan Urquhart is Chief of Biology at a District Reproduction Center. He delivers babies from uterine replicators. You see, on Athos there are no women. In fact, the planet is forbidden to them. Isolated from the galactic community by distance and a lack of exploitable resources, the Athosians have peacefully lived their peculiar social experiment for 200 years. But now the ovarian cultures dating back to the original settlement of the plane... more info>> (Published: 1986)
Words: 62349 - Reading Time: 178-249 min.
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
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Falling Free [An independent Vorkosigan Novel] [MultiFormat]
by Lois McMaster Bujold
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[An independent novel in the Vorkosigan universe.] In an attempt to corner the market on labor contracts across the galaxy, the medical research corporation GalacTech bio-engineers a thousand human embryos into a new race of humans perfectly suited to a weightless environment. In addition to many carefully engineered internal adjustments for a life without gravity, the Quaddies' most visible improvement is the substitution of legs for an additional pair of arms. Expert space welder and engineer ... more info>> (Published: 1988) Prometheus Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Winner, Hugo Award Nominee, Locus Poll Award Nominee
Words: 81014 - Reading Time: 231-324 min.
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Fear Is A Cold Black: The Early Science Fiction of Kate Wilhelm [MultiFormat]
by Kate Wilhelm
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If you are in a plague-ridden spaceship with no idea what is killing off your passengers and crew one by one, what do you do? How will you deal with the panic and the fear, and your own feelings of despair that you may not be able to save the people you love? The protagonist's sense of helplessness in this story--one of Kate Wilhelm's early science fiction work--leaps off the page, making it clear why Wilhelm is considered one of the great writers of her time. She provides psychological depth t... more info>>
Words: 34350 - Reading Time: 98-137 min.
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Hammered [Jenny Casey Trilogy Book 1] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader/Adobe PDF]
by Elizabeth Bear
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Once Jenny Casey was somebody's daughter. Once she was somebody's enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life or two, Jenny is a month shy of fifty, and her artificially reconstructed body has started to unravel. But she is far from forgotten. A government scientist needs the perfect subject for a high-stakes ... more info>>
Category: Science Fiction/Romance
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Out of All Them Bright Stars [MultiFormat]
by Nancy Kress
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A polite alien visits a small-town diner. (Published: 1985) Nebula Award(R) Winner
Words: 2877 - Reading Time: 8-11 min.
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Rebels and Lovers [Secure eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by Linnea Sinclair
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It’s been two years since Devin Guthrie last saw Captain Makaiden Griggs. But time has done little to dampen his ardor for the beautiful take-charge pilot who used to fly yachts for his wealthy family. While Devin’s soul still burns for Kaidee, she isn’t the kind of woman a Guthrie is allowed to marry—especially in a time of intergalactic upheaval, with the family’s political position made precarious by Devin’s brother Philip, now in open revolt against the Empire. And when Devin’s nineteen-year... more info>>
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