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"A deluxe hardcover edition of the queen of science fiction's trailblazing novel about a planet full of genderless beings--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary's mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose--and change--their gender....
2) Dreadnaught
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"The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people--and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The war may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens...
3) Fearless
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Captain John "Black Jack" Geary tries a desperate gamble to lead the Alliance Fleet home-through enemy-occupied space-only to lose half the Fleet to an unexpected mutiny.
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After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.
"The year is AD 7000. The human species is nearly extinct--for the fourth time--due to its fragile nature. Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from the robots that once served humanity. She's on a journey to the water-world of Shin-Tethys to find her sister Ana. But her trip is interrupted when pirates...
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The Terichik rose screaming from the frozen, dark sea. Bulwar was the first Adventurer to die. Now there were twelve. At the end Eviane knelt around her companions and threw down her weapon. The men and women in crisp orange uniforms came to pick up the bodies. Then they came for the weapons. WIt wasa thing of magic in a world of technology or technology in a world of magic.
14) Redoubtable
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Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife and her crew work to take down the pirates and slavers who are preying on millions of suffering refugees, especially after slavers kidnap a young girl, making the task personal as well as political.
15) Hardship
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It began with a terrible vision of the future. Compelled by her precognitive abilities, Ia must somehow save her home galaxy long after shes gone.
16) Damnation
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Ia's Damned boarding the Damnation to return to battle against their Salik foes, face a new threat when the Greys emerge after several centuries of silence.
18) Defender
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"Kris Longknife is back in the good graces of the brass-- and to demonstrate that, they've promoted her to commodore. Now her mission is to find the home base of the aliens who are plaguing the fringes of the galaxy."--Page 4 of cover.
19) Red planet run
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Star accepts a commission to explore Mars and gets far more than she bargained for.
20) Tenacious
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Vice Admiral Kris Longknife's honeymoon gets cancelled when she hears that the space raider's home world may have been discovered. Finding where the raiders came from could be the key to saving humanity. If only uncovering their secrets was that easy! As Kris returns home, she ends up tangling with a mutinous crew determined to take off on their own. The dissident group leads Kris straight into a new mess--a system filled with strange, deadly enemies...
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