Author: johnscalzi

From a New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award–winning author: After the devastating collapse of an interstellar pathway, can Emperox Grayland II maintain her power — and save civilization? A “tightly plotted, deeply satisfying” space opera with “pitch-perfect pacing” (Publishers Weekly starred review).

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A New York Times bestseller from a Hugo Award–winning author! With the interstellar empire on the brink of falling apart and a civil war brewing, Emperox Grayland II must take drastic measures to ensure humanity’s survival. This space opera is a “fast-paced romp” (Library Journal).

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From a Hugo Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author: In the near future, a violent sport called Hilketa — where robot-bodied players compete with swords and hammers — is on the rise. But when a star athlete dies, agents Chris Shane and Leslie Vann must unearth the dark truth behind the game. “Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton” (USA Today).

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One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone—999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don’t know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life. Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher—a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death’s crosshairs, so they can have a second … have a second chance to avoid the reaper. But when a fellow Dispatcher and former friend is apparently kidnapped, Tony learns that there are some things that are worse than death, and that some…

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From a Hugo Award–winning author: When an aging Earth man volunteers for the military, he’s plunged into an interstellar war that makes him question everything he believes. “Classic sci-fi seen from a modern perspective — a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe” (Robert Charles Wilson).

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Our universe is ruled by physics and faster than light travel is not possible—until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, other stars. Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human … one human outpost can survive without the others. It’s a hedge against interstellar war—and a system of control for the rulers of the empire. The Flow is eternal—but it is not static. Just…

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After a virus leaves one percent of the population unable to move, FBI agents Chris Shane and Leslie Vann investigate its suspicious connection to a murder — an unprecedented case that could have dangerous ramifications for millions of people…

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From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner John Scalzi, an extraordinary retelling of the SF classic Little Fuzzy ZaraCorp holds the right to extract unlimited resources from the verdant planet Zarathustra–as long as the planet is certifiably free of native sentients. So when an outback prospector discovers a species of small, appealing bipeds who might well turn out to be … well turn out to be intelligent, language-using beings, it’s a race to stop the corporation from “eliminating the problem,” which is to say, eliminating the Fuzzies–wide-eyed and ridiculously cute small, and furry–who are as much people as we…

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Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It’s a prestige posting, and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship’s Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn’t be better…until Andrew begins to pick up on the fact that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with … confrontation with alien forces, (2) the ship’s captain, its chief science officer, and the handsome Lieutenant Kerensky always survive these confrontations, and (3) at least one low-ranked crew member is, sadly, always killed.…

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