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Continuing the events leading up to Frank Herbert's immortal Dune saga, the exciting conclusion to this trilogy finds the cruel Tleilaxu overlords on Ix manufacturing a synthetic form of amal to supplant the spice from Dune. If amal is accepted, Emperor Shaddam IV will gain absolute power. But if the plot of the Imperial House Corrino succeeds, the result may be the end of civilization itself.

A century after his recovery of the alien Necroteuch, Gregor Eisenhorn is one of the Imperial Inquisition's most celebrated agents. But when a face from his past returns to haunt him, and he is implicated in a great tragedy that devastates the world of Thracian Primaris, Eisenhorn's universe crumbles around him. The daemon Cherubael is back, and seeks to bring the inquisitor to ruin - either by his death, or by turning him to the service of the Dark Gods.

Peter V. Brett has won accolades from critics, fans and fellow authors alike for this riveting debut novel. The Warded Man features a world where demons stalk the night, hunting humans who have long forgotten the magic of their ancestors. But all is not lost, as some hold out hope that a savior will release humanity from the demons' terrifying reign.

Cael is a top-tier operative trained to maintain order across the multiverse—until a mission shatters everything he thought he knew. As timelines collapse and ghosts of the past resurface, Cael uncovers a conspiracy hidden within the Archive: a vast system capable of rewriting history itself. Now marked as a rogue, he must navigate alternate realities, battle weaponized memories, and confront enemies who exist outside time. The deeper he digs, the more he realizes this breach isn't just sabotage—it's personal.

On the desolate plains of the Moon, a single seed becomes humanity’s greatest gamble. Encased in glass and shielded from cosmic fury, Project Greenleaf’s fragile sapling must prove that life can take root beyond Earth. As rival nations vie for lunar dominance, a team of scientists battles sabotage, solar storms, and political intrigue to cultivate the first lunar harvest. From the first bud to the inaugural loaf of space-grown bread, Project Greenleaf is a high-stakes tale of survival, cooperation, and the audacious hope that will feed our future among the stars.Two Superpowers. One ...

Earth, 2053. Scientist Quinn Buyers discovers motherhood is not the joy-filled experience she thought it would be. Adding to the sleepless nights, boundless love, and ceaseless worry, Tig, her cyborg husband, is never home. Her AI meerkat has also run away, and her best friend is mysteriously missing from CyberSleep's cryogenic freeze.

Earth: 2049. Scientist and BASE jump enthusiast Quinn Buyers would rather be studying clouds than getting ready for her wedding. When a devastating climate tragedy strikes, she makes a narrow escape, only to be held responsible for the catastrophe. With powerful enemies threatening everything she holds dear, including her famous scientist mother, she embarks on a dangerous quest for answers that takes her across the globe.

As the combat escalates across the galaxy, the stage is set for an explosive endgame: Obi-Wan undertakes a perilous mission to destroy the dreaded Separatist military leader General Grievous. Palpatine, eager to secure even greater control, subtly influences public opinion to turn against the Jedi. And a conflicted Anakin, tormented by unspeakable visions, edges dangerously closer to the brink of a galaxy-shaping decision.

A company of Army Rangers is sent on an interstellar colony ship to secure a foothold on a dangerous, alien planet through violence of action. Leaving behind a warring Earth flung headfirst into a conflict of mutual assured destruction, the Rangers and the accompanying crew of first colonists are guided on a 40-year journey by an unprecedented artificial intelligence. But when they emerge from the frigid embrace of cryosleep, they awake to a nightmare, finding themselves greeted by the same ruthless enemy that brought about the ruin of Earth.

It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself "Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don't want to know what the "A" stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.

Colony ship Starlight was built to protect them. Now she’s hunting them. In the endless dark between the stars, the interstellar ark Starlight V glides through the void, its cryogenic chambers cradling a thousand sleeping colonists on their journey to a distant world. A skeleton crew oversees the ship’s sprawling artificial intelligence and its delicate systems, until a cryptic alien signal lures them into uncharted territory. Strange malfunctions cascade through the vessel. Gravity falters, bio-locks refuse to obey, and environmental controls swing between arctic cold and suffocating ...

With the help of their new allies, the Engineer and Grace create Hope's Mirage, a freighter that will help them operate Balder Corp, their new enterprise. As allies become partners and unseen enemies spark a shadow war, a fresh crew member joins their ranks. Can the Engineer and Balder Corp navigate these challenges and survive the brewing conflict?

After saving the world many times, the Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed. All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's home world. No. There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans.

The gods are dead, but they are not gone. Their bodies litter the cosmos, magical fuel for vast interstellar empires, giving birth to mages, and more importantly, to magitech.

Once the Sith order teemed with followers. But their rivalries divided them in endless battles for supremacy - until one dark lord at last united the Sith in the quest to enslave the galaxy and exterminate the Jedi. Yet it would fall to another, far more powerful than the entire Brotherhood of Darkness, to ultimately realize the full potential of the Sith, and wield the awesome power of the dark side as never before.

The 26th century. Humanity has expanded beyond Earth’s system to hundreds of planets that colonists now call home. But the United Earth Government and the United Nations Space Command is struggling to control this vast empire. After exhausting all strategies to keep seething colonial insurrections from exploding into a full-blown interplanetary civil war, the UNSC has one last hope.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.

In Our Friends from Frolix 8, the world is run by an elite few. And what determines whether one is part of the elite isn’t wealth or privilege, but brains. As children, every citizen of Earth is tested; some are found to be super-smart New Men and some are Unusuals with various psychic powers. The vast majority are Undermen, performing menial jobs in an overpopulated world.

Against the backdrop of worldwide, unexplainable natural disasters, Dr. Virginia Marilyn Edwards (Emmy Award-winner Kerry Washington) seeks out Agent Scott Thomas (Emmy Award-winner Laurence Fishburne) at a secretive government headquarters. Virginia claims these events are signs, and unless Agent Thomas helps her, she believes things will only get worse. Her desperation is dialed up higher with a shocking proclamation as she stands before him pregnant, weak, and weary: “Agent Thomas,” she says, “I believe I am Mary.”

Chuck Ramsey is a traveling con man fronting as a comedian. After a gig on Earth, he picks Mordecai The Brown, a hitchhiking wizard on the run from his own kind. Chuck's ship, the Radio City, is a Winnebego of the stars, serving as both home and transport as he schemes and scams across the galaxy with his family. The pair form an unlikely bond, and "Mort" becomes a part of that family. The Ramseys, wizard in tow, embark on a journey of criminal hijinks, magical mayhem, and evasion of consequences for both.