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Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

A junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet …

Ra by qntm

The Goblin Emperor (The Goblin Emperor, #1) by Sarah Monette

The Goblin Emperor is a 2014 fantasy novel written by the American author Sarah Monette under the pseudonym Katherine Addison. …

Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

"She answered the Emperor's call.

She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.

In victory, her world …

Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks

Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990. It is …

Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

Inversions by Iain M. Banks

Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts

It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens …

Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks

The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced …

The Postman by David Brin

This is the story of a lie that became the most powerful kind of truth. A timeless novel as urgently …

Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee

When the hexarchate's gifted young captain Kel Cheris summoned the ghost of the long-dead General Shuos Jedao to help her …

Hunters Run George RR Martin Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham by George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Daniel Abraham

Like so many others, Ramon Espejo ran from the poverty and hopelessness of the Third World to the promise of …

The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

"The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more …