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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.
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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.
Red Rising
On a colonised Mars, a miner discovers the brutal caste system's darkest secret and is recruited for a revolution from the inside.
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.
Startide Rising
Genetically uplifted dolphins and their human crew flee through space in a damaged ship, carrying a secret that every civilisation in the galaxy wants.
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.
The Dreaming Void
In the far future, a man begins dreaming of a perfect world inside the Void at the centre of the galaxy, and when millions decide to follow him there, the galaxy's powers fear that the pilgrimage will trigger the Void's expansion and destroy them all.
The Mote in God's Eye
In 3017, a thousand years after humanity spread to the stars, a probe arrives from the Mote, a star nobody has ever visited, and the Second Empire of Man sends the battlecruiser MacArthur to meet whoever sent it.
Excession
An artefact older than the universe appears at the edge of the galaxy, and the Culture's ship Minds, a rival empire and a pair of estranged lovers are caught up in what to do about it.
Shards of Earth
Fifty years after the alien Architects stopped reshaping inhabited worlds and vanished, Idris Telemmier, an Intermediary engineered to fight them and now crewing a salvage ship, finds signs that they are back.
A Memory Called Empire
A young ambassador from a small colony arrives at the heart of a vast empire, where memory is currency and identity is a political weapon.
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.
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.