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Collecting Stars by Lexa Luthor
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAn F/F Omegaverse Sci-Fi Romance Any landing you can limp away from is a good one! Faced with news about the future, Kal determines she must prepare her planet for a possible war. But will Charlie be there to support her? Or will Charlie run back to the stars? Join Charlie and Kal as their story continues in Book 4 of The Alpha God series... -
The Lily and the Crown by Roslyn Sinclair
Ariana “Ari” Geiker lives an isolated life on an imperial space station commanded by her father. The skilled, young botanist rarely leaves her living quarters, where she maintains an elaborate garden. When an imperious older woman is captured from a pirate ship and given to her as a slave, Ariana’s perfectly ordered life is thrown into chaos... -
Adept of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsEvelyn's deeds are coming back to haunt her.Free to travel among the stars, the former warlord is enjoying her freedom, even if she’s occasionally exasperated by the women who’ve attached themselves to her. They accompany her as she encounters wonders, from dryad terraforming ships to the orcish arenas of Skaloth.Yet Evelyn has enemies, and they have not forgotten her... -
The Sovereign of Psiere by K. Aten
Psiere is a world of intrigue where old ideology meets new. The Makers built massive pyramids on each continent and filled them with encrypted texts and advanced technology. The two suns, Archeos and Illeos shine down on a mostly undiscovered planet with a psionic race of people living on land, and violent sea people below the water... -
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Fixit by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFixit, she's out of this world... This short novella follows Fixit, a worker on the surface of Tau Ceti Prime. She is an ace mechanic who keeps the automated harvesting machines in good running order. She has never missed a quota in her efforts help to feed all the people “topside” in the giant floating cities in the sky... -
These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJun Ironway, hacker, con artist, and only occasional thief, has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: a video that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems... -
The Terracotta Bride by Zen Cho
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA tale of first love, bad theology and robot reincarnation in the Chinese afterlife. In the tenth court of hell, spirits wealthy enough to bribe the bureaucrats of the underworld can avoid both the torments of hell and the irreversible change of reincarnation. It's a comfortable undeath … even for Siew Tsin. She didn't choose to be married to the richest man in hell, but she's reconciled... -
Seven of Infinities by Aliette de Bodard
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVân is a scholar from a poor background, eking out a living in the orbitals of the Scattered Pearls Belt as a tutor to a rich family, while hiding the illegal artificial mem-implant she manufactured as a student. Sunless Woods is a mindship—and not just any mindship, but a notorious thief and a master of disguise. She’s come to the Belt to retire, but is drawn to Vân’s resolute integrity... -
The Future by Naomi Alderman
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going.The Future—as the richest people on the planet have discovered—is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction while safeguarding their own survival with secret lavish bunkers...Categorized as:
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And Shall Machines Surrender by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
On the dyson sphere Shenzhen, artificial intelligences rule and humans live in luxury, vying to be chosen as host bodies—called haruspices—for the next generation of AI, and thus be worshiped as gods. Doctor Orfea Leung has come here to escape her past of mercenary violence. Krissana Khongtip has come here to reinvent herself from haunted spy to holy cyborg... -
In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFrom the award-winning author of the Dominion of the Fallen series comes a dark retelling of Beauty and the Beast. In a ruined, devastated world, where the earth is poisoned and beings of nightmares roam the land... A woman, betrayed, terrified, sold into indenture to pay her village's debts and struggling to survive in a spirit world... -
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle.On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing... -
The Stars Undying by Emery Robin
Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this spectacular space opera inspired by the lives and loves of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, a princess finds the potential for power—and romance—after meeting the most influential military man in the galaxy. Princess Altagracia has lost everything... -
The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA diverse, exciting debut space opera about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials—a role that may empower her to win back her nation’s independence—perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor... -
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The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA diverse, exciting debut space opera about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials—a role that may empower her to win back her nation’s independence—perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor... -
The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard
Xích Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship has just been captured by the Red Banner pirate fleet, famous for their double-dealing and cruelty. Xích Si expects to be tortured to death-only for the pirates' enigmatic leader, Rice Fish, to arrive with a different and shocking proposition: an arranged marriage between Xích Si and herself... -
Bear by Audrey Faye
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA note from Audrey: Some series can be read out of order - this isn’t one of them. Start with Alpha and welcome to Ghost Mountain! That day when a polar bear shifter arrives in a plane full of purple yarn and all hell breaks loose... Ronan is coming. He’s a big bear—an enormous bear—and arriving at Ghost Mountain is going to change the shape of who he is forever... -
Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff
Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church hierarchy think she's far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she's no closer to ending the men who destroyed her familia; in fact, she's told directly that Consul Scaeva is off limits... -
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 time for undead nonsense.Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth, first in The Locked Tomb Trilogy, unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian necromancers. Her characters leap off the page, as skillfully animated as arcane revenants... -
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station.She answered the Emperor's call.She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.In victory, her world has turned to ash... -
A Journey of the Heart by Catherine M. Wilson
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Book II of the trilogy, Tamras’s apprenticeship as a warrior isn’t turning out quite the way she expected. Her unconventional choices lead to her crossing swords, almost literally, with Vintel, the war leader of Merin’s house. She finds herself embroiled in a power struggle she is doomed to lose, but the loss sends her on a journey that will change her destiny and decide the fate of her people... -
Sentinel by Audrey Faye
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsNewborns change everything—even when they haven’t arrived yet.The birth of a baby raven is expected any day now, and Ghost Mountain Pack is kind of falling apart, or at least their dominants are. A tiny ball of fluff calls on some of their most powerful instincts—and slices into their deepest wounds.Rio knows it’s his job as sentinel to walk alongside those dominants as they struggle... -
Elder by Audrey Faye
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA note from Audrey: Some series can be read out of order - this isn’t one of them. Start with Alpha and welcome to Ghost Mountain!The Ghost Mountain pack has been waiting for their fancy new den building for months, but it won't be the only thing unloading off the trucks... -
Of Wulf and Wynd, Part 2: The Bracelets of Ælfwynn by Lexa Luthor
Until the end of her days. Prince Tharon's attempt to spy on her enemy kingdom might cost her the only person who once held her heart. But she is unwilling to accept Roswynd's greatest sacrifice, even if it means ending her life too. Tharon will battle death to save her wife so they can live out their days together... -
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Scatter by Molly J. Bragg
When Deputy US Marshal Danielle ‘Danny’ Martin was told she’d gotten a promotion, she expected to be leading her own fugitive retrieval team. Instead, she got transferred to Pontian Florida of all places, and assigned to a Superhero support detail for Focus, a seemingly immortal superhero who is also one of the most famous lesbian icons on the planet... -
Compass Rose by Anna Burke
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the year 2513, the only thing higher than the seas is what’s at stake for those who sail them.Rose was born facing due north, with an inherent perception of cardinal points flowing through her veins... -
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsHer city is under siege.The zombies are coming back.And all Nona wants is a birthday party.In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back... -
The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri
The prophecy of the nameless god—the words that declared Malini the rightful empress of Parijatdvipa—has proven a blessing and curse. She is determined to claim the throne that fate offered her. But even with the strength of the rage in her heart and the army of loyal men by her side, deposing her brother is going to be a brutal and bloody fight... -
Always Human by Ari North
First serialized on the popular app and website WebToon, Always Human ran from 2015-2017 and amassed over 76,000 unique subscribers during its run. Now reformatted for a print edition in sponsorship with GLAAD, Always Human is a beautifully drawn graphic novel about a developing relationship between two young women in a near-future, soft sci-fi setting... -
Mistress of Chaos by Benjamin Medrano
Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsEvelyn wishes that her life would calm down.As if rescuing a former empress wasn’t enough of a problem, Evelyn has gotten herself involved in the affairs of dragons, something she doesn’t appreciate in the slightest. Even dealing with them might be easier than what comes afterward, as it seems that her luck is even worse than she thought it was...
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