Tape on inside cover, shown in photo. Probably previous library book.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

The Genesis Fleet #1

Jack Campbell returns to the world of the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet novels with a new action-packed military science fiction series that explores the founding of the Alliance . . . and the men and women who fought to create it. Earth is no longer the center of the universe. After the invention of the faster-than-light jump drive, humanity is rapidly establishing new colonies. But the vast distances of space mean that the old order of protection and interstellar law offered by Earth has ceased to exist. When a nearby world attacks, the new colony of Glenlyon turns to Robert Geary, a young former junior fleet officer, and Mele Darcy, a onetime enlisted Marine. With nothing but improvised weapons and a few volunteers, Geary and Darcy must face down warships and armored soldiers--or die trying. As battles rage and pirates take an increasing toll throughout the colonies, the only hope for lasting peace lies with Carmen Ochoa, a "Red" from the anarchic world of Mars, and Lochan Nakamura, a failed politician. They have a plan: to lay the groundwork for mutual defense that could someday grow into an alliance. But if their efforts don't succeed, the growing power of aggressor worlds could turn regions of space founded on freedom into battlefields between the first interstellar empires...

Vanguard

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#sciencefiction #paperback #scifi #spaceopera 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Rhode Island

Drew Williams's The Stars Now Unclaimed, the first volume of The Universe After series, is a fun, adventure-filled space opera set in a far-future galaxy.

"The only thing more fun than a bonkers space battle is a whole book packed with bonkers space battles. Come for the exploding spaceships, stay for the intriguing universe."--Becky Chambers, author of A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages.

Hot on her trail is the Pax--a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the Pulse.

Now Jane, a handful of comrades from her past, and a telekinetic girl called Esa must fight their way through a galaxy full of dangerous conflicts, remnants of ancient technology, and other hidden dangers.

And that's just the beginning . . .

The Stars Now Unclaimed

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#hardcover #fiction #HerisSerrano #seranno #spaceopera #scifi #adventure

Kansas

With most of her family dead, slaughtered in a series of brutal attacks aimed at destroying the Vatta interstellar shipping empire, Kylara Vatta struggles to rebuild her family business and recruit allies to her cause, working to bring together a ragtag group of traders to strike back against an entire fleet of pirates. 35,000 first printing.

Command Decision

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Rivals despite the many things they share in common, Esmay becomes a suspect in Brun's capture by a religious militia movement, while Brun, pregnant and imprisoned, struggles to survive despite her captors' dangerous practices.

Rules of Engagement

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#hardcover #fiction #OnceAHero #seranno #spaceopera #scifi #adventure

Esmay Suiza and Barin Serrano struggle to reconcile their families--but their universe is falling apart--in this thrilling sequel to Elizabeth Moon's Rules of Engagement and Once a Hero.

Change of Command

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#hardcover #fiction #HerisSerrano #seranno #spaceopera #scifi #adventure #elizabethmoon

Thrown out of the Space Academy in disgrace, Ky Vatta, the daughter of a leading interstellar trading dynasty, is given the chance to redeem herself by captaining one of Vatta's oldest ships on its voyage to the scrapyards, but her journey takes on unexpected challenges when she finds herself and her crew trapped in the middle of a colonial war, in the first volume in a new military science fiction series.

Trading in Danger

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In the wake of a series of assassinations that have left her parents dead and their shipping empire in ruins, Kylara Vatta, the unorthodox renegade heir to Vatta Transport Ltd., sets out to avenge their deaths and find the individuals responsible.

Engaging the Enemy

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Esmay Suiza wasn't a member of a great Navy family like the Serranos. She'd had to make her way on grit alone, which meant it wasn't likely she'd ever make admiral and "hoist her own flag." Well, that was fine with her: all Esmay wanted was a secure berth where she could be part of something greater than herself, and otherwise just live her life in peace. But what we want or think we want from life and what we get are seldom the same - and one day Esmay found herself in the middle of a space battle, and the senior surviving officer in a mutiny against a traitorous captain. Suddenly she has no choice: she must take command and win - and thereby become both the youngest and lowest-ranking member of Fleet ever to win a major battle. While Esmay may not want to be a hero, it looks like she just can't help it, because Once A Hero....

Once a Hero

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Marque and Reprisal

Against the Odds

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Utah

From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman’s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware. . . . UN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li has made thirty-seven faster-than-light jumps in her lifetime—and has probably forgotten more than most people remember. But that’s what backup hard drives are for. And Li should know; she’s been hacking her memory for fifteen years in order to pass as human. But no memory upgrade can prepare Li for what she finds on Compson’s World: a mining colony she once called home and to which she is sent after a botched raid puts her on the bad side of the powers that be. A dead physicist who just happens to be her cloned twin. A missing dataset that could change the interstellar balance of power and turn a cold war hot. And a mining “accident” that is starting to look more and more like murder. . . . Suddenly Li is chasing a killer in an alien world miles underground where everyone has a secret. And one wrong turn in streamspace, one misstep in the dark alleys of blackmarket tech and interstellar espionage, one risky hookup with an AI could literally blow her mind.

Spin State

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#hardcover #fiction #aliens #mystery #sciencefiction #scifi #spaceopera #ya #youngadultfiction #youngadult #fantasy

Washington

Packed with action and unexpected twists, this addictive page-turner is perfect for fans of Illuminae and Defy the Stars! When Jo steps onto planet Tau Ceti e for the first time, she’s ready to put the past behind her and begin again. After all, as a pioneer, she has the job of helping build a new home away from Earth. But underneath the idyllic surface of their new home, there’s something very wrong. And when Jo accidentally uncovers a devastating secret that could destroy everything they’ve worked for, suddenly the future doesn’t seem so bright. With the fate of the pioneers in her hands, Jo must decide how far she’s willing to go to expose the truth—before the truth destroys them all.

The Pioneer

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One seat on the intergalactic Sakien Empire's supreme ruling body, the Council of Seven, remains unfilled, that of the Empress Apparent. The seat isn't won by votes or marriage. It's won in a tournament of ritualized combat in the ancient tradition. Now that tournament, the Empress Game, has been called and the females of the empire will stop at nothing to secure political domination for their homeworlds.

The battle for political power isn't contained by the tournament's ring, however. The empire's elite gather to forge, strengthen or betray alliances in a dance that will determine the fate of the empire for a generation. With the empire wracked by a rising nanovirus plague and stretched thin by an ill-advised planet-wide occupation of Ordoch in enemy territory, everything rests on the woman who rises to the top.

The Empress Game

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Mild creasing of spine. Some wear at cover edges. 

A futuristic novel about efforts to save the Terran Empire from the hostile planet War World.

Galactic Bounty

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Pennsylvania

Anakin to the Rescue! is the adventurous and hilarious LEGO(R) adaptation of Star Wars(TM): Episode II: Attack of the Clones.

When Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi are assigned to protect Senator Padmé Amidala, they figure it'll be an easy assignment. That is, until Obi-Wan falls for a cookie trap and lands them in Count Dooku's arena of monster aliens!

Anakin to the Rescue!

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#hardcover #fiction #aliens #mystery #sciencefiction #scifi #spaceopera #ya #bridgettyler

Georgia

Very much “Like New”, but an ex-library copy with library stamps. Sleeve and book are all in beautiful condition! If you liked Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, you’ll like this book! #hardcover #scifi #fiction #catherynnemvalente #spaceopera 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVEL The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's science fiction spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic musical contest…and the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented—something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding. Once every cycle, the great galactic civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix—part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past. Species far and wide compete in feats of song, dance and/or whatever facsimile of these can be performed by various creatures who may or may not possess, in the traditional sense, feet, mouths, larynxes, or faces. And if a new species should wish to be counted among the high and the mighty, if a new planet has produced some savage group of animals, machines, or algae that claim to be, against all odds, sentient? Well, then they will have to compete. And if they fail? Sudden extermination for their entire species. This year, though, humankind has discovered the enormous universe. And while they expected to discover a grand drama of diplomacy, gunships, wormholes, and stoic councils of aliens, they have instead found glitter, lipstick, and electric guitars. Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny—they must sing. Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes have been chosen to represent their planet on the greatest stage in the galaxy. And the fate of Earth lies in their ability to rock.

Space Opera

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Mending tape on spine. Moderate creasing of spine. Cover has wear. 

The Far Side of the Stars

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This book is not pretty, but it is very readable. Serious wear of cover. Bookstore sticker on back cover. Moderate creasing of spine. 

Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of "Fine Prey, Polymorph, "and "Evolution's Darling," reached new heights of excitement in "The Risen Empire," and left readers begging for more. Now he comes through with the dazzling payoff in book two of Succession," The Killing of Worlds."
Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial frigate "Lynx" is a walking dead man. Unjustly held responsible for the death of the Child Empress, sister of the immortal Emperor, Zai has been sent to fight an unwinnable battle. The "Lynx" must stop a vastly superior Rix ship from reaching the planet Legis, a suicide mission that will almost certainly end in oblivion for Captain Zai and his crew.
On the planet Legis below, a Rix compound mind--a massive emergent AI formed from every computer on the planet--as been isolated by their Imperial blockade. But the mind has guided a lone Rix commando, Herd, to the planet's frozen north, and will soon order a desperate attempt to seize a polar communications array and break the blockade. Herd is a single warrior against an Imperial army, but moving silently behind her is the intelligence of an entire planet.
Ten light-years away, Captain Zai's true love, the psychic (some say mad) Senator Nara Oxham is engaged in a deadly game of political intrigue. From her position on the Emperor's War Council, Senator Oxham must find a way to forestall the Emperor's final solution if the blockade is broken: a nuclear strike to destroy the compound mind, which will also kill millions of Imperial citizens. She suspects that the Emperor has a hidden weakness discovered, by the mind, a secret so dangerous to his immortal dynasty that to prevent its discovery the Emperor is willing to countenance the ultimate crime. . . .
The killing of worlds.
With this powerful conclusion to the first story arc of Succession, Scott Westerfeld confirms 0his stature as one of the leading writers of high space opera.


The Killing of Worlds

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New Jersey

Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Luke Skywalker struggle to unite Rebel and Imperial forces against the deadly Ssi-ruuk, reptilian invaders of the outpost Bakura who plan to enslave the entire galaxy for purposes of war and destruction. Reprint.

The Truce at Bakura: Star Wars Legends

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Bolos Book 2 

Standing guard as the tireless protectors of the human race, the electronic Bolos fight against alien computer viruses that infect them, repel attacks by space pirates, outmaneuver alien robot intelligences, and struggle with their own programming. Original.

The Unconquerable

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Heris Serrano

#paperback #starwars #newjediorder #scifi #spaceopera #fiction #youngadult 

Force Heretic, Book I

Determined to contain the Yuuzhan Vong and bring peace to the galaxy, Luke Skywalker searches for Zonama Sekot--a planet that long ago had repelled an invasion of the Yuuzhan Vong--hoping the planet's secrets will end the threat of war.

Remnant: Star Wars Legends

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#paperback #spaceopera #fiction #scifi #cats #chillingeffect #humor #latinx 

A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure. Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by The Fridge, a shadowy syndicate that holds people hostage in cryostasis, Eva must undergo a series of unpleasant, dangerous missions to pay the ransom. But Eva may lose her mind before she can raise the money. The ship’s hold is full of psychic cats, an amorous fish-faced emperor wants her dead after she rejects his advances, and her sweet engineer is giving her a pesky case of feelings. The worse things get, the more she lies, raising suspicions and testing her loyalty to her found family. To free her sister, Eva will risk everything: her crew, her ship, and the life she’s built on the ashes of her past misdeeds. But when the dominoes start to fall and she finds the real threat is greater than she imagined, she must decide whether to play it cool or burn it all down.

Jack Campbell

Vanguard

Drew Williams

The Stars Now Unclaimed

Elizabeth Moon

Command Decision

Elizabeth Moon

Rules of Engagement

Elizabeth Moon

Change of Command

Elizabeth Moon

Trading in Danger

Elizabeth Moon

Engaging the Enemy

Elizabeth Moon

Once a Hero

Elizabeth Moon

Marque and Reprisal

Elizabeth Moon

Against the Odds

Chris Moriarty

Spin State

Bridget Tyler

The Pioneer

Rhonda Mason

The Empress Game

William C. Dietz

Galactic Bounty

Ace Landers; David A. White (Illustrator)

Anakin to the Rescue!

Bridget Tyler

The Pioneer

Catherynne M. Valente

Space Opera

David Drake

The Far Side of the Stars

Scott Westerfeld

The Killing of Worlds

Kathy Tyers

The Truce at Bakura: Star Wars Legends

Keith Laumer

The Unconquerable

Elizabeth Moon

Heris Serrano

Sean Williams; Shane Dix

Remnant: Star Wars Legends

Valerie Valdes

Chilling Effect