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A Red disguised as a Gold infiltrates the ruling elite's military academy, rising through the ranks to destroy them from within.
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Pandora's Star
In 2380 humanity has spread across hundreds of worlds linked by wormholes, and when an astronomer sees two distant stars vanish inside a barrier, a starship is sent to find out why, with consequences no one foresaw.
Downbelow Station
As the Company Wars end, Pell Station, orbiting a world inhabited by gentle natives, is swamped with refugees and caught between the Earth Company's fleet and the rising Union.
Leviathan Wakes
A hardboiled detective on an asteroid-belt ice hauler stumbles into a conspiracy that connects a missing woman to a weapon that could reshape humanity.
Heir to the Empire
Five years after the fall of the Empire, as Leia and Han await twins and Luke Skywalker trains alone as a Jedi, Grand Admiral Thrawn, a brilliant strategist from the Unknown Regions, takes command of what is left of the Imperial fleet.
Ninefox Gambit
Captain Kel Cheris, a soldier of the hexarchate, whose weapons work only while its people keep a shared calendar, is disgraced for unorthodox tactics and given one chance: retake the Fortress of Scattered Needles with the help of Shuos Jedao, an undead general who once massacred his own army.
Horus Rising
Two hundred years into the Great Crusade to reconquer the galaxy, the Emperor withdraws and names the primarch Horus his Warmaster, and Captain Garviel Loken of the Luna Wolves watches what follows.
On Basilisk Station
Commander Honor Harrington, given a refitted light cruiser and a humiliating posting to the backwater Basilisk system, starts doing the job properly and stumbles on a plot by the Republic of Haven.
Consider Phlebas
A shapeshifting mercenary fighting for the Idirans in their holy war against the Culture hunts a fugitive AI Mind across a galaxy tearing itself apart.
Dauntless
Captain John 'Black Jack' Geary, frozen in a survival pod for a hundred years and revered as a legend, is woken to take command of a trapped fleet deep in enemy space.
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
On a survey mission to an uncolonised moon, xenobiologist Kira Navárez finds an alien relic that bonds itself to her, and the discovery drags her into first contact and a war that spreads across the stars.
Ender's Game
A gifted child is recruited to a military academy in space, where he must train to fight an alien invasion that may already be lost.
Barrayar
Cordelia, now married to Aral Vorkosigan, comes to live on Barrayar, a militaristic, backward world, just as Aral becomes regent for its boy emperor.