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Grif Vindh, captain of the Fool’s Errand, just pulled off the job of a lifetime: against all odds, he and his crew smuggled a rare drug out of one of the most secret and secure facilities the Empire of the Radiant Throne has to offer. It was every smuggler’s dream—the “Big Score”—and they find themselves filthy rich as a result. . . .
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All they wanted to do was make a living. Amanpreet and her crew are traders and cargo haulers. It’s not the most exciting work in the galaxy but it’s lucrative and better than being stuck on a planet. Or at least it wasn’t exciting until recently. Follow the Whisper and its crew as they encounter sophont space . . .
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Politics is dirty. Piracy is just a little smudged. Grif Vindh, Captain of the Fool’s Errand, has a problem: he knows too much. He knows the secret behind the late Baron Mogra Tylaris’ untimely demise. He knows about the shadowy organization behind it. And now he knows about the contingency plan the late baron put in place, in . . .
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It’s 2219. Just 20 years ago, humanity unlocked the secrets to faster than light travel, and a new rush to the stars began. As the human race takes its first tentative steps in interstellar exploration, an ancient galaxy-spanning conflict threatens to swallow up the young species. Mission Commander Ivy Czininski has stumbled into first contact with intelligent alien life . . .
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Yan BarCarran is on the cusp of graduating from the top theological school in the galaxy. She’s expecting to slide quietly into an unremarkable apprenticeship and career that will make her uncle proud, but her quiet future vanishes when she’s offered an apprenticeship with the most powerful man in the Empire. Yan has to learn politics and leadership, fast. As . . .
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Vai Ma’amaloa is 17 years old, and his father has just accepted the position of Chief Science Officer aboard the G.E.V. Shadow, a retrofitted warship tasked with exploring the unknown reaches of the galaxy. Now, Vai will have to come to terms with leaving his old life behind. As he forges new relationships aboard the Shadow, and tries to settle . . .
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An ancient conqueror awakens to find his galactic empire in ashes. A street rat discovers a core that changes everything. A noble woman must fight for her place in her family and for her very survival. A privileged Intercessor realizes war and politics brew beneath the pleasant facade of his utopian planet. All of them are light years apart, but . . .
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Confined in a holding cell, Jesri is under suspicion of being something impossible—an artificial life form, born of the long-dead human race. In that same abandoned ancient city she will find a long-lost comrade, setting out to find the architect of humanity’s doom and take vengeance for their downfall. . . .
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Set in the far future when humanity has reached the stars and finds it is not the first to do so. Alien technology has been left behind by a long dead race. Ancient cities, abandoned starships, temples and fortified bunkers all contain artefacts and devices far in advance of what humans have been able to produce. Technology that . . .
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Dana D’Artagnan came to Paris Satellite to become a Musketeer – instead, she became best friends with three of them: Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Now she’s tangled up in a world of swords, spaceships, zero-gravity sports, war, romance and inter-planetary politics. The solar system is on the brink of war, the government is dangerously unstable thanks to an inconvenient . . .
Humanity is starting over in the Natonus System, across the galaxy from Earth. Nearly a century into the colonial project, both the system and its people are undergoing great changes. The last untapped region of space in Natonus is the outer rim. Now, the reigning government has turned its attention to developing these sparsely-populated worlds. Gail Sora and . . .
A young man wakes up in a prison after being falsely convicted of a high-profile murder and sentenced to life. It’s not ordinary prison though, he’s in the middle of space on a floating prison called the Labyrinth, and he’s got to escape before it’s time to make way for the next wave of forgotten prisoners. Will he find . . .
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Captain Ariana just wants to deliver her Slu passenger and collect the money, but now both the overbearing central government and the fanatical rebels have set their sights on her ship, and then there’s that little problem left over from the AI wars . . . . . .
Feb 8, 2014: This is a playfully frisky space opera adventure. The author has noted that it started out as erotica but took on a life of its own and developed into a fully faceted webserial. Indeed, so far every chapter has included a sexual encounter described in sensual detail. Orbital Academy begins as a school story – a squad of rookie pilots start their training and get to KNOW each other, teacher too. It then morphs into an action packed adventure when they are sent on a dangerous mission. It’s not your [more . . .]
Feb 16, 2014: Caelum Lex is one that I started reading because of its ranking, and seeing it mentioned everywhere. I was a bit hesitant at first as it seemed a bit of , well, I’ll say it. It seemed like a Firefly clone. It is not. It has a similar world, a similar structure to the character groupings, and there are certainly a number of plots and tropes that have been cut from whole cloth and sewn in, but Caelum is its own story, and doing a good job of it.