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On a colonised Mars, a miner discovers the brutal caste system's darkest secret and is recruited for a revolution from the inside.
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The Hunger Games
A teenage girl volunteers to fight to the death in a televised arena to save her sister, and the games become a catalyst for revolution.
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.
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.
The Rage of Dragons
In a caste-bound warrior society locked in endless war, a low-born young man with little talent swears revenge on the nobles who killed his father and drives himself through brutal training to get it.
The Stars My Destination
In the twenty-fifth century, when people can teleport by thought alone, Gully Foyle, a brutish spacer, has spent six months adrift in the wreck of his ship when another vessel passes him by, and he swears revenge on it.
Steelheart
Ten years after a burst in the sky gave ordinary people superpowers and made them tyrants, David, who saw Steelheart, the invincible ruler of Newcago, bleed on the day he killed David's father, sets out to join the Reckoners, who assassinate Epics.
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.
Shards of Honor
Cordelia Naismith, captain of a Betan survey ship, is taken prisoner on an unexplored planet by Aral Vorkosigan, a Barrayaran commander with a brutal reputation, whose own crew has just mutinied.
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.
Iron Widow
In a world inspired by ancient China, boys pilot giant transforming war machines against alien invaders with girls as concubine co-pilots who often die from the strain, and eighteen-year-old Zetian volunteers so she can kill the pilot responsible for her sister's death.
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.
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.