An amnesiac astronaut awakens millions of miles from Earth with two dead crewmates. As memories return, he must solve a scientific mystery to save humanity from extinction.

A sentient murder machine just wants to be left alone to watch its favorite shows, but when its human associates are captured, it must choose between inertia and drastic action.

Adam is one of the few remaining pilots with real-world combat flight experience. Raised under a ruthless authoritarian regime following his childhood abduction, he harbors a hidden disloyalty that would condemn him to death if were uncovered. To escape that fate, he accepts the charge of piloting mankind’s first ever space vessel to a new solar system: Tau Ceti. Tasked with preserving him on the eighteen-year voyage is Voice, a prototype artificial intelligence. Untried and untested, the AI is cold, calculating and unknowable…

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After rebooting in a new body with no memories, an AI named Lovelace explores the universe with engineer Pepper, discovering friendship and personal growth. Hugo Award winner for Best Series.

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In a colonized solar system, ice miner Jim Holden and Detective Miller investigate a mysterious abandoned ship, uncovering a conspiracy that could trigger an interplanetary war. Hugo Award-winning series, now a Prime Original.

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Brilliant young boy trains as soldier to lead Earth’s defense against hostile alien invaders, facing psychological battles amidst isolation and pressure.

Seven pilgrims embark on a final voyage to Hyperion, seeking answers to their lives’ unsolved riddles and facing the enigmatic creature, the Shrike, in a world beyond galactic law.

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After having his mind uploaded into a space probe 117 years after death, Bob and his self-replicating clones embark on an interstellar mission to find new homes for humanity.

Seconds before Earth’s demolition, Arthur Dent embarks on a hilarious intergalactic adventure with eccentric companions, uncovering life’s profound mysteries.

The first volume in the Chronicles of the Fallers, The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton is an exceptional novel exploring the mystery at the heart of the Commonwealth Universe. To save their civilization, he must destroy it.

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save humankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire—both scientists and scholars—and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation.

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After a devastating war, Lilith awakens among the alien Oankali race who saved humanity. She must lead Earth’s survivors home, but salvation requires humanity’s permanent transformation.

A man’s tattoos come to life, revealing a series of fantastical and thought-provoking stories that explore the human condition and the mysteries of the universe.

A missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful novel.

Black Mirror meets What If It’s Us in this gripping, romantic, and wildly surprising novel about two boys lost in space trying to find their way home—while falling in love—from the critically acclaimed author of We Are the Ants.

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Elizabeth Bennet lives on a small moon in the Londinium lunar system with her parents and four sisters. While she dreams of piloting a starship rather than settling down with an eligible man, her world turns upside down when the handsome Mr. Bingley docks the Netherfield StarCruiser on the neighboring estate.

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