A Point of Honor by Dorothy J. Heydt
A world-renowned knight in the virtual reality land of “Chivalry,” Mary de Courcy sees her fantasy and real worlds collide when someone attempts to kill her after she wins the virtual manor of St. Chad’s-on-Wye. Amazon
Columbus Day by Craig Alanson
Expeditionary Force Book 1 We were fighting on the wrong side, of a war we couldn’t win. And that was the good news. The Ruhar hit us on Columbus Day. There we were, innocently drifting along the cosmos on our little blue marble, like the…
Blitzball by Barton Ludwig
When a teenage boy discovers he was cloned to be Hitler, he must fight his genes, family and upbringing to choose a different path in a school where soccer symbolizes war. A predominantly white Reichfield High has lost every game in the last few years…
Where the Forest Meets the Stars by Glendy Vanderah
After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk…
The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency) Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible―until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity…
The Municipalists by Seth Fried
In Metropolis, the gleaming city of tomorrow, the dream of the great American city has been achieved. But all that is about to change, unless a neurotic, rule-following bureaucrat and an irreverent, freewheeling artificial intelligence can save the city from a mysterious terrorist plot that…
Prey by Michael Crichton
Deep in the Nevada desert, the Xymos Corporation has built a state-of-the-art fabrication plant, surrounded by miles and miles of nothing but cactus and coyotes. Eight people are trapped. A self-replicating swarm of predatory molecules is rapidly evolving outside the plant. Massed together, the molecules…
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
Mars Trilogy For centuries, the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. Now a group of one hundred colonists begins a mission whose ultimate goal is to transform Mars into a more Earthlike planet. Amazon
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Hyperion Cantos On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of…
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race’s next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person…
Dune Mass by Frank Herbert
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides—who would become known as Muad’Dib—and of a great family’s ambition to bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream. Amazon
1984 by George Orwell
Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever… Amazon