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Alien Clay
Thirty years asleep, Professor Arton Daghdev wakes falling — dumped from a disposable prison barge into the sky of an alien world called Kiln. He is a dissident scientist sentenced to a labour camp with no return trip. And Kiln has ruins: something here built, wrote, and vanished, leaving no bones and nothing that could…
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Forever Peace
Ten days out of every thirty, physicist Julian Class lies jacked mind-to-mind with nine other soldiers, running a soldierboy — a remote-controlled war machine hunting rebels in the Costa Rican cloud forest. The Ngumi War is twelve years old, fought by the automated haves against the have-nots, and the side that cannot lose it also…
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Marsbound
Carmen Dula never asked to go to Mars. Dragged off Earth at eighteen by her mother’s lottery win, she endures two weeks up a space elevator, six months in a converted fuel tank, and a colony administrator who despises her on sight — then breaks the one rule that matters: never go out alone. Kilometers…
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The Accidental Time Machine
Matt Fuller — broke, dumped, about to be fired from his MIT lab job — presses RESET on a calibrator he built himself, and the box vanishes for a second. The next push, ten seconds. Each jump runs twelve times longer than the last, it only goes forward, and it cannot be steered. Then a…
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Ancillary Mercy
Breq commands Mercy of Kalr at Athoek Station, still healing, when the news arrives: Tstur Palace has fallen to the half of Anaander Mianaai who most wants her dead. Then an ancillary of a ship three thousand years hidden turns up in the ruined Undergarden, a Presger translator arrives drinking fish sauce by the bowl,…
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Ancillary Sword
Days after the events at Omaugh Palace, Breq is made fleet captain and handed a ship, a mission, and a seventeen-year-old lieutenant she instantly suspects. Her destination: Athoek, a tea-growing system cut off by civil war, where the sister of the lieutenant she once killed tends a garden — and where centuries of comfortable, legalized…
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Provenance
Ingray Aughskold has spent everything she has on one gamble: extract a convicted thief from a prison whose inmates are legally dead, and recover the stolen heirlooms that could win her the heirship her mother dangles between her and her foster-brother. The merchandise thaws out, denies being who she paid for, and walks off in…
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Radiant Star
On Aaa, a sunless rogue planet at the empire’s far edge, the underground city of Ooioiaa keeps its mummified saints — legally not dead, only waiting — around the spot where the Radiant Star promised to return. Jonr, sold by his own mother before he was born, flees his fate and is boxed for shipping…
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Translation State
Enae, fifty-six, has spent hir whole life keeping Grandmaman’s house running. The funeral brings a joke of an inheritance and a polite exile: a diplomatic sinecure chasing a two-hundred-year-old cold case, a Presger Translator gone missing in human space. Everyone says being seen to look is the whole point. Enae decides to actually look —…
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Ancillary Justice
Breq has one body now. She used to have thousands. Once the starship *Justice of Toren* — a two-thousand-year-old troop carrier whose AI lived simultaneously in the ship and in legions of human ancillary bodies — she is down to a single fragile form, a stolen identity, and a plan that amounts to walking into…
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