The Light Brigade
By: Kameron Hurley
3.89
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…dif…
Want to Read $ 7.99"The power of the corrupt governments and entrenched corporations feels inevitable. No doubt so did the rule of kings and landowners before them. But I know better now. I know there is a greater power, and it is ours. The greater power is us. And that is the world we will build out here, somewhere, when we bring all our pieces back together. A future made of light."-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
"You have War of the Worlds?" I asked the knu. It returned twenty different films, sixteen editions of a text, but no radio play. Radio drama. That's the word Tanaka had used. One text said it was history, and included a transcript. "Read it to me," I said, and the knu picked up the soothing default voice I had programmed into my heads-up, and told me a story about how little towns went crazy thinking the Martians were invading, back during the days of peak capitalism. What makes people believe this shit? I thought as I lay there listening. But it was easy, wasn't it, when people were isolated. When information was scarce or siloed. People would believe whatever you put in front of them, if it fit their understanding of the world. Bad Martians. Logical, well-meaning corporations."-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
"When I’m old and dying, wheezing my guts out, my organs failing, I want to walk out the front door of some old farmhouse on my own land, maybe forty, fifty hectares of it. I want to find a cool place in the woods under some old oak tree and settle down there and die as the sun comes up. I want a death rattle, a final breath, a body intact that can then be torn apart by scavengers, riddled with worms, my limbs dragged off to feed some family of little foxes, my guts teeming with maggots, until I am nothing but a gooey collection of juices that feeds the fungi and the oak seedlings and the wild grasses. I want my bleached bones scatted across my own land, broken and sucked clean of marrow, half buried in snow and finally, finally, covered over in loam and ground to dust by the passage of time, until I am broken into fragments, the pieces of my body returned to where they came. I could give back something to this world instead of taking, taking, taking. That’s the death I want. The death that means the most to me. That is the good death, the best death, and that is the death I wish not only for myself, but for you, too. Our lives are finite. Our bodies imperfect. We shouldn’t spend it feeding somebody else’s cause."-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
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1. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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2. Six Wakes
By: Mur Lafferty
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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3. The Journey (Northwest Passage, #2)
By: John A. Heldt
3.62
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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4. Dreams of Stardust (de Piaget, #3; de Piaget/MacLeod, #11)
By: Lynn Kurland
3.63
Format: 256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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5. Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
By: Yoon Ha Lee
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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"Cheris, people are very simple,"-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
"Taking away people’s names denied their power"-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
"But then, war is about taking the future away from people."-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
"Immortality was like sex: it made idiots of otherwise rational people."-Yoon Ha Lee, Ninefox Gambit (The Machineries of Empire, #1)
6. Taming Flame
By: Therisa Peimer
4.30
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Flaminius's days of bouncing between beds are snatched away the instant he sets eyes on his perfect… read more
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"Tightening his embrace around his wife and little Theo, he vowed, "I will do everything in my power to continue being worthy of the faith you have in me."-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
"Why do you have such faith in me, Aurelia?" "I've told you a million times that I love you, you make me feel safe and cherished, and you care deeply for our people. Why wouldn't I have faith in you?"-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
"I'm so proud of you I could burst, but in the interest of saving the poor cleaning staff the hassle, I would, instead, like to take you to our room and lick you from stem to stern until you beg me to…"-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
"A virgin," Flaminius smiled deviously. "I'll take her." Instantly, surprised chatter erupted. Mother Guardian held up her hand for silence. "You cannot be serious, Sire." "Oh, but I am," he replied w…"-Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame
7. The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
By: Barry Kirwan
4.23
Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition
In 2063, Earth's overheated climate and war-ravaged cities are near breaking point. A new habitable… read more
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"Your life is a beer glass Micah, but you want champagne"-Barry Kirwan, The Eden Paradox (Eden Paradox, #1)
8. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
By: Martha Wells
4.22
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more
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"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
9. The Polymorph
By: Max Nowaz
4.29
Format: None pages, ebook
Arbitrator, Jim Brown is returning to Earth after completing a successful mission to put down a rev… read more
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"One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire." "And you? What are your plans?" "I have no plans to kill your father."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be successful." If you can learn to define your own success and not let others dictate it, you ca…"-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
10. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two
By: Michael G. Kramer
4.29
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
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11. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
By: Dale A. Jenkins
4.30
Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition
WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more
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"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
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"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation. He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong. But what might ha…"-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway
12. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
By: K.G.E. Konkel
4.32
Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition
The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more
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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
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13. Translation State
By: Ann Leckie
4.09
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
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14. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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15. Some Desperate Glory
By: Emily Tesh
4.06
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more
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"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory
"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory
16. The Light Brigade
By: Kameron Hurley
3.89
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…dif… read more
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"The power of the corrupt governments and entrenched corporations feels inevitable. No doubt so did the rule of kings and landowners before them. But I know better now. I know there is a greater power…"-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
"You have War of the Worlds?" I asked the knu. It returned twenty different films, sixteen editions of a text, but no radio play. Radio drama. That's the word Tanaka had used. One text said it was his…"-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
"When I’m old and dying, wheezing my guts out, my organs failing, I want to walk out the front door of some old farmhouse on my own land, maybe forty, fifty hectares of it. I want to find a cool place…"-Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade
17. Rubicon
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3.93
Format: 469 pages, Paperback
Sergeant Adrienne Valero wants to die. She can't. After enduring a traumatic resurrection for th… read more
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18. The Outside (The Outside, #1)
By: Ada Hoffmann
3.80
Format: 401 pages, ebook
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the futu… read more
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19. The Legend of the Bloodstone (Time Walkers, #1)
By: E.B. Brown
3.92
Format: 670 pages, Kindle Edition
"Perhaps I will cut your throat as you tried to cut mine. Will I still want to touch you when your … read more
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20. Terrible Worlds: Revolutions (Terrible Worlds #1-3)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.45
Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition
The Future Is Oppression. Scions, sonko, whatever you call them, they're the super rich, the prin… read more
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21. ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
By: Steven Decker
4.37
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
BOOK INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCEImagine being given a chance at a second life but with a catc… read more
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"I wouldn’t wish my life on anyone!"-Steven Decker, ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
"His life had been spent pursuing excellence and amassing a great fortune, but now that it was ending, there was no one he was inclined to share it with."-Steven Decker, ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
"From here, we can see the line of time stretching in opposite directions for eternity. You see, Edward, there is no beginning and no end of time. The past, present, and future are all happening at on…"-Steven Decker, ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
"The man had character. He possessed a moral compass to do the right thing, to fight for those who could not defend themselves, and to challenge authority that shielded itself behind the power of God …"-Steven Decker, ONE MORE LIFE TO LIVE: EDWARD AND THE BRICKLAYER: INSPIRATIONAL HISTORICAL ROMANCE
