Science fiction: space opera

Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best NovelA Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019An NPR Favorite Book of 2019An Esquire Best Sci-Fi Book of All TimeA Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and Not the Booker Prize NomineeA Goodreads Biggest SFF Book of 2019 and Choice Awards NomineeA Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it.Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary JusticeAmbassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn''t an accidentor that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the i

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best NovelA Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019An NPR Favorite Book of 2019An Esquire Best Sci-Fi Book of All TimeA Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and Not the Booker Prize NomineeA Goodreads Biggest SFF Book of 2019 and Choice Awards NomineeA Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it.Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary JusticeAmbassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn''t an accidentor that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the i

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Book SynopsisRising SFF star P. Djeli Clark brings an alternate New Orleans of orisha, airships, and adventure to life in his immersive debut novella The Black God's Drums.

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Book SynopsisAfter twenty-three years, Orson Scott Card returns to his acclaimed bestselling series with the first true, direct sequel to the classic Ender''s Game.In Ender''s Game, the world''s most gifted children were taken from their families and sent to an elite training academy. At Battle School, they learned combat, strategy, and secret intelligence to fight a dangerous war on behalf of those left on Earth. But they also learned some important and less definable lessons about life.After the life-changing events of those years, these childrennow teenagersmust leave the school and readapt to life in the outside world.Having not seen their families or interacted with other people for yearswhere do they go now? What can they do? Ender fought for humanity, but he is now reviled as a ruthless assassin. No longer allowed to live on Earth, he enters into exile. With his sister Valentine, he chooses to leave the only home he''s ever known to beg

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Book SynopsisSet two years before Dune, Princess of Dune is the never-before-told story of two key women in the life of Paul Muad'DibPrincess Irulan, his wife in name only, and Paul's true love, the Fremen Chani. Both women become central to Paul's galaxy-spanning Imperial reign.Raised in the Imperial court and born to be a political bargaining chip, Irulan was sent at an early age to be trained as a Bene Gesserit Sister. As Princess Royal, she also learned important lessons from her fatherthe Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV. Now of marriageable age, Princess Irulan sees the machinations of the many factions vying for powerthe Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, the Spacing Guild, the Imperial throne, and a ruthless rebellion in the Imperial military. The young woman has a wise and independent streak and is determined to become much more than a pawn to be moved about on anyone's gameboard. Meanwhile, on Arrakis, Chanithe daughter of Liet-Kynes, the Im

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Book SynopsisFor years, Rafi Delarua saw his family suffer under his father''s unethical use of psionic power. Now the government has Rafi under close watch but, hating their crude attempts to analyse his brain, he escapes to the planet Punartam, where his abilities are the norm, not the exception. Punartam is also the centre for his favourite sport, wallrunning - and thanks to his best friend, he has found a way to train with the elite. But Rafi soon realises he''s playing quite a different game, for the galaxy is changing; unrest is spreading and the Zhinuvian cartels are plotting, making the stars a far more dangerous place to aim. There may yet be one solution - involving interstellar travel, galactic power and the love of a beautiful game.

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Book SynopsisThe third all-new collection of twisted tales set in the Mirror Universe, revealing the dark alternate versions of all our Star Trekheroes.

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