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Rama Series Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at an inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It is, incredibly, an interstellar spacecraft. Space explorers and planet-bound scientists alike prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence. It will kindle their wildest dreams... and fan their darkest fears. For no one knows who the Ramans are or why they have come. And now the moment of rendezvous awaits — just behind a Raman airlock door. 1.0 - Rendezvous with Rama 1.5 - Bright Messengers (text only) 1.6 - Double Full Moon Night (text only) 2.0 - Rama II 3.0 - The Garden of Rama 4.0 - Rama Revealed 4.5 - The Tranquility Wars (text only) Join Arthur C. Clarke

Salvation Sequence Series Peter F. Hamilton In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transporation--including starships--virtually obsolete. Every place on earth, every distant planet mankind has settled, is now merely a step away from any other. And all seems wonderful...until a crashed alien spaceship is found on a newly-located world 89 light years from Earth, harboring seventeen human victims. And of the high-powered team dispatched to investigate the mystery, one is an alien spy... Bursting with tension and big ideas, this standalone series highlights the inventiveness of an author at the top of his game, as the interweaving story lines tell us not only how humanity arrived at this moment, but also the far-future consequences that spin off from it. 1 - Salvation 2 - Salvation Lost 3 - The Saints of Salvation Join Peter F. Hamilton

The Travelers Series Nathan Hystad When Elliot returns to Bell Island the summer of ‘84, he doesn’t expect to be thrust into the middle of an alien invasion. But he won’t let them win… Elliot has just finished his third year of college as a finance major. After some tragic family news, he isn’t sure what the future holds.Working part time at the video rental store, Elliot is dumped and offered a promotion, all on the eve of the island’s biggest celebratory The Fourth of July.With the help of his best friend, Bones, the new waitress from the local diner, and a mysterious soldier, Elliot must uncover the secrets that surround Bell Island before it’s too late.Under the guise of a treacherous storm, Bell Island is invaded, and it’s up to Elliot and his motley group of allies to defend their home.Dark Invasion is a fast paced science fiction adventure from Nathan Hystad, the best-selling author of First Life, The Other Place, The Event, and Lost Contact. 1 - Dark Invasion 2 - Dark City 3 - Dark World Join Nathan Hystad

The Abyss Series Nathan Hystad Forget the stars, the real threat is below us. After a rough break up, Wyatt moves to New York City, eager to prove himself while working on Wall Street. When he’s asked to visit his ex-girlfriend's father, a billionaire tycoon, his fate is sealed. The revolutionary company, Nu-En, launches a radical innovation, an energy that will allow every person on the planet access to power. Only it doesn’t perform as anticipated. Harnessing the ocean has consequences, and highly dangerous creatures emerge from the depths. Soon, the Earth is fracturing, and the world will never be the same. Wyatt teams with Luna, a clever journalist, to escape the treacherous city with the ultimate a robot capable of saving the world. Their journey won’t be easy, but they meet others along the way that share the same determination. Time is running out, and nothing can prepare them for what’s coming… 1 - Below Us 2 - Before Us 3 - After Us Join Nathan Hystad

Extinction Wars Series Vaughn Heppner The Earth died when aliens rained thermonuclear warheads on her cities and sprayed the surface with a bio-terminator. A deadly poison drifted to every corner of the planet, threatening the last survivors with annihilation. For a soldier in Antarctica like Creed, there is only one way to keep breathing untainted air. He must bury his hatred of the extraterrestrials and join the Jelk Corporation as an assault trooper, leaving the planet for outer space. In return for his and other people's services, the corporation will house the last humans for as long as the assault troopers keep winning. For the price of living and the chance to save humanity, Creed has to wear a shock chip in his neck?Jelk discipline is harsh?and he has to don a symbiotic battlesuit that feeds off his sweat. Human life is cheap in the vast alien war. The assault troopers are little more than suicide soldiers, but for humanity to escape extinction, they must survive. But Creed didn't agree to the bargain in order to remain a dog to the aliens. He has a plan, and he'll need all his cunning to beat these star born bastards and begin the road to freedom for the human race. "Assault Troopers" is a tale of human extinction and ultimate desperation, written by bestselling author Vaughn Heppner. 1 - Assault Troopers 2 - Planet Strike 3 - Star Viking 4 - Fortress Earth 5 - Target Earth Join Vaughn Heppner P.S. If one of the sub-channels is blocked - just ping here

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Scorpio [#1 Frontlines: Evolution] Marko Kloos It’s been eight years since an alien invasion drove a small surviving group of settlers to seek refuge in an underground shelter. Cut off from the rest of humanity, the ragtag band has maintained a narrowly functioning colony due to communal effort and salvage runs. Alex Archer has her own duties as a dog handler. While this off-world colony may be harsh, Ash, Alex’s black shepherd raised to sense threats, makes living in it a little nicer. But the tenuous hide-and-seek with the monstrous species known as the Lankies is about to come to an end for Alex and her close-knit crew of soldiers, techs, and friends. When a salvage operation goes catastrophically wrong, the Lankies home in on the humans. With hopes of a rescue long faded, all Alex has left is will—and the fear that there’s so much more to lose. Join Marko Kloos

Non-Culture novels Iain M. Banks Against a Dark Background She came from one of the more disreputable aristocratic families. Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the civilization based around the planet Golter. Feersum Endjinn After dying seven times, Count Alandre Sessine VII has only one life remaining, and he becomes a fugitive in search of others like himself while he tries to track down his killer. By the author of Use of Weapons. Reprint. The Algebraist It is 4034. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow Seer at the Court of the Nasqueron Dwellers, will be fortunate if he makes it to the end of the year. T Transition There is a world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the shadow of suicide terrorism and global financial collapse. Join Iain M. Banks

Culture Series Iain M. Banks The Culture series is a science fiction series written by Scottish author Iain M. Banks and released from 1987 through to 2012. The stories centre on The Culture, a utopian, post-scarcity space society of humanoid aliens, and advanced superintelligent artificial intelligences living in artificial habitats spread across the Milky Way galaxy. The main themes of the series are the dilemmas that an idealistic, more-advanced civilization faces in dealing with smaller, less-advanced civilizations that do not share its ideals, and whose behaviour it sometimes finds barbaric. In some of the stories, action takes place mainly in non-Culture environments, and the leading characters are often on the fringes of (or non-members of) the Culture, sometimes acting as agents of Culture (knowing and unknowing) in its plans to civilize the galaxy. Each novel is a self-contained story with new characters, although reference is occasionally made to the events of previous novels. The Culture is a society formed by various humanoid species and artificial intelligences about 9,000 years before the events of novels in the series. Since the majority of its biological population can have almost anything they want without the need to work, there is little need for laws or enforcement, and the culture is described by Banks as space socialism.[1][2] It features a post-scarcity economy[a] where technology is advanced to such a degree that all production is automated.[1] Its members live mainly in spaceships and other off-planet constructs, because its founders wished to avoid the centralised political and corporate power-structures that planet-based economies foster.[1] Most of the planning and administration is done by Minds, very advanced AIs. 1.0 - Consider Phlebas 1.5 - The State of the Art 2.0 - Excession 3.0 - The Player of Games 4.0 - Matter 5.0 - Use of Weapons 6.0 - Look to Windward 7.0 - The Hydrogen Sonata 8.0 - Surface Detail[ 9.0 - Inversions Join Iain M. Banks

The Survivors Series Nathan Hystad The ships came at dawn. Dean’s wife is dead. Her last When the ships come...wear the necklace. Then the ships arrived. Cities all around the world reported strange alien vessels descending. Some saw them as the heralds of a new age; others fired everything they had at them. All were taken as the beams lashed down and drew them into the sky. Dean was left behind, seemingly the last man on Earth. A trail of clues left by his dead wife guide Dean on a perilous journey across America and beyond, to learn the truth behind the mysterious ships and save humanity from its doom. But not everything is as it seems. The Event is the epic first novel of the best-selling Survivors series. 01 - The Event 02 - New Threat 03 - New World 04 - The Ancients 05 - The Theos 06 - Old Enemy 07 - New Alliance 08 - The Gatekeepers 09 - New Horizon 10 - The Academy 11 - Old World 12 - New Discovery Join Nathan Hystad

Rift Saga Andreas Christensen The RIFT Saga begins here. In the ruins of what was once North America lays the Covenant, a nation forged by the iron will of the Moon people, who descended from their dusty refuge on the Moon after the Fall. The Moon people are wealthy, ruled by a strong government who protects its citizens from the dangers from outside their borders. Their greatest achievement is having learned the secret of immortality, and every citizen has the opportunity to live nearly forever if they choose to, a life of riches and abundance. The English are the descendants of the original inhabitants of this place, and they live very different lives from that of the Moon people. They only live to serve the greater good, and citizenship is something few have the opportunity to earn. At the age of fifty all non-citizens are subjected to mandatory euthanasia. In order to maintain a sustainable society, they are told. Every year a number of girls and boys at the age of eighteen are selected for Service to the State. The brightest and most talented are sent to become Students. The strong, the fighters and the athletes become Janissaries, a band of soldiers protecting the northern border from the enemies of the Covenant. The Wardens, a secretive organization known to operate far to the west, near the Rift, which makes up the border to the wastelands, sometimes choses one or two initiates, but nobody knows what becomes of them. And then there is the Corpus, where the whip rules and backs are bent. Those who complete their Service, may become citizens. And although they will never be equal to the Moon people, they will have access to all the riches and opportunities granted by the Covenant leadership to its citizens. As Sue is nearing Selection Day, she secretly hopes to be chosen, despite having to leave her mother and brother behind. She doesn't crave glory or wealth though. 1 - Rift 2 - Covenant 3 - Legacy Join Andreas Christensen

Exodus Trilogy: The complete omnibus edition Andreas Christensen From Book 1: Accolades for Exodus: "Wow! I was truly impressed by this book. I love when science fiction writers combine science, politics and psychology. For me the mix was just right" "This book is science fiction in great form. It doesn't just make you think about the future, it really makes you think about the world around you today" When mankind faces extinction, how can anyone survive? In 2072, Earth faces the ultimate extinction event. In an America turned authoritarian, a race against time begins. To send a starship to a distant planet, where the remains of humanity can survive. Only a small number will be chosen for this final endeavor to save mankind from extinction, and among the contenders only the most resourceful will have a chance. But while the government wants to choose loyal subjects in order to create another version of the society they have engineered, there are those who secretly conspire to let the starfarers choose their own destiny, free from the bonds of their mother world. As mankind on Earth faces its final blow, the selected few set course for Aurora, more than 40 light years away! Follow Tina Hammer, scramjet pilot and officer, Kenneth Taylor, Harvard professor and alienated by the nation he once held so dear, Maria Solis, daughter to one of the richest men in the world, a girl who would never have been chosen, except for her dad's money, on their various paths toward the greatest adventure in human history. "A race through the end of the Earth - excellent SF" "Very well written and reads fast and easy in the style of other great sci fi writers such as Randolph Lalonde and Jack Campbell" 1 - Exodus 2 - Aurora 3 - Genesis Join Andreas Christensen

Lost Starship Series Vaughn Heppner Ten thousand years ago, a single alien super-ship survived a desperate battle. The vessel's dying crew set the AI on automatic to defend the smashed rubble of their planet. Legend has it the faithful ship continues to patrol the empty battlefield, obeying its last order throughout the lonely centuries. In the here and now, Earth needs a miracle. Out of the Beyond invade the New Men, stronger, faster and smarter than the old. Their superior warships and advanced technology destroy every fleet sent to stop them. Their spies have infiltrated the government and traitors plague Earth’s military. Captain Maddox of Star Watch Intelligence wonders if the ancient legend could be true. Would such an old starship be able to face the technology of the New Men? On the run from killers, Maddox searches for a group of talented misfits. He seeks Keith Maker, a drunken ex-strikefighter ace, Doctor Dana Rich the clone thief stuck on a prison planet and Lieutenant Valerie Noonan, the only person to have faced the New Men in battle and survived to tell about it. Maddox has to find a place hidden in the Beyond and bring back a ship no one can enter. If he fails, the New Men will replace the old. If he succeeds, humanity might just have a fighting chance… 01 - The Lost Starship 02 - The Lost Command 03 - The Lost Destroyer 04 - The Lost Colony 05 - The Lost Patrol 06 - The Lost Planet 07 - The Lost Earth 08 - The Lost Artifact 09 - The Lost Star Gate 10 - The Lost Supernova 11 - The Lost Swarm 12 - The Lost Intelligence 13 - The Lost Tech 14 - The Lost Secret 15 - The Lost Barrier 16 - The Lost Nebula 17 - The Lost Relic 18 - The Lost Task Force 19 - The Lost Clone 20 - The Lost Portal Join Vaughn Heppner The Lost Task Force The Lost Clone The Lost Portal

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. And So it Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life (by Charles J. Shields) A Man Without a Country Armageddon in Retrospect Bagombo Snuff Box Bluebeard: The Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian Breakfast of Champions Cat's Cradle Deadeye Dick Galapagos God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater Hocus Pocus If This Isn't Nice, What Is Advice for the Young Jailbird Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction Mother Night Palm Sunday Player Piano Slaughterhouse-Five Sucker's Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing The Sirens of Titan Timequake Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons Welcome to the Monkey House While Mortals Sleep Unpublished Short Fiction Pity the Reader On Writing with Style Join Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Circle Series Dave Eggers #1 The Circle When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. #2 The Every Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Makazian, they look for the Every's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free? Join Dave Eggers

Silver Ships Series S.H. Jucha An explorer-tug captain, Alex Racine detects a damaged alien craft drifting into the system. Recognizing a once in a lifetime opportunity to make first contact, Alex pulls off a daring maneuver to latch on to the derelict. Alex discovers the ship was attacked by an unknown craft, the first of its kind ever encountered. The mysterious silver ship's attack was both instant and deadly. What enfolds is a story of the descendants of two Earth colony ships, with very different histories, meeting 700 years after their founding and uniting to defend humanity from the silver ships. 01 - The Silver Ships 02 - Libre 03 - Méridien 04 - Haraken 05 - Sol 06 - Espero 07 - Allora 08 - Celus-5 09 - Omnia 10 - Vinium 11 - Nua'll 12 - Artifice 13 - Sojourn 14 - Alliance 15 - SADEs 16 - Earthers 17 - Talus 18 - Elvians 19 - Q-Gates 20 - Conclave Join The Silver Ships

The Messenger Series J.N. Chaney, Terry Maggert Dash never asked to be a mech pilot, but fate has other plans. On the run and out of chances, he guides his ship and crew into the heart of a relic older than the galaxy itself—and find himself on the edge of an eternal war he never knew existed. The relic is a mech, lost to history and forgotten by all who remain. Built by an ancient race to be the ultimate weapon, the machine is capable of unspeakable destruction, and its discovery could unhinge the balance of power throughout known space. Worse still, the A.I. inside the machine speaks of an ancient evil that will soon arrive--a race whose power far exceeds anything humanity has ever witnessed. Only the Messenger can stand against them, the A.I. tells its new pilot. Only you can do what must be done. 01 - The Messenger 02 - The Dark Between 03 - Star Forged 04 - The Silent Fleet 05 - Dawn of Empire 06 - Worlds Apart 07 - Rage of Night 08 - Heaven's Door 09 - Radical Dreamer 10 - Cosmic Ride 11 - The Black Gate 12 - Furious Gulf 13 - Farthest Shore 14 - Dark Origins 15 - Infinite Crown Join The Messenger

Uplink Squadron Series J.N. Chaney, Chris Kennedy The ultimate pilot has arrived. An unprecedented connection between man and machine. Five years ago, aliens destroyed a carrier and its airwing at Jupiter without warning. Since then, the Earth’s nations have learned to work together, and they want to know more about the aliens who appeared, attacked, and vanished without a trace. The Americans have provided a new carrier and a slew of space fighters. Chinese engine and gravity technology has made going after the invaders possible. And the Russians have developed a new control system for the American fighters that will give the craft never-before-seen capabilities. Most importantly, this blend of technology has allowed for pilots to connect directly to their ships, amplifying their reflexes and giving them the ultimate edge in combat. Mankind’s next war is upon us, and Uplink Squadron is the tip of the spear. It’s time to plug in and save the world. 0 - The Jupiter Incident 1 - Uplink Squadron 2 - Second Flight 3 - Fangs Out 4 - Far and Away 5 - Forge the Path 6 - Heaven's Angels 7 - Scales of Envy 8 - Torn Asunder 9 - To Rule in Heaven Join Uplink Squadron

Neon Genesis Evangelion: ANIMA, Vol 1 Yoshiyuki Sadamoto What if reluctant hero Ikari Shinji had saved the world? Now, at seventeen years old, he is the defacto leader of the EVA team. Under the leadership of Commander Katsuragi Misato, the Evangelion suits have been updated with advanced designs and powers, in preparation for the possible return of the monstrous Angels. Four copies of Ayanami Rei have been tasked with operating a global anti-Angel search-and-destroy program. But when one of these clones goes rogue, it's up to Shinji to stop her. Join Evangelion

Earth Rising [#5 Homeworld Lost] J.N. Chaney, Scott Moon Kayan has emerged from the Hoyon citadel repaired and refreshed, though she’s a bit cagey. Why would she share what kind of upgrades the healing process bestowed upon her? Noah Gantz is just glad to be back in the action, seeking Seer secrets, a way to save two galaxies, and finding Kilis Dane Ryger before Celia and Ryg destroy Kayan to get their answers. When Kayan’s crew learns Dane may have genetically modified Azok warships, they pursue the clues back to the Milky Way and Earth… … and learn General Tate Collins had his day in court, and was acquitted of wrong doing. Where is the man now? Who knows but Noah’s nemesis may be in possession of a new, more deadly young Azok (or three). Kayan’s crew face new challenges and complications, not the least of which is accidentally delivering a new alien race, the Jykeen, to a remote Pacific island. Will the first contact scenario give United Earth the tools to survive, or doom them. On the bright side, Noah’s big showdown with 98X and 12X will settle his problem with the Monitors one and for all. Join J.N. Chaney