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Upcoming Sci-Fi Releases - January 2018
By: TheFantastical Date: January 3, 2018, 6:36 am
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So there are some exciting titles coming this month to sci-fi
fans!
Emergence (Foreigner 19) by C.J. Cherryh
Release date - 2, January, 2018
Synopsis -
The nineteenth book in C.J. Cherryh's beloved Foreigner space
opera series begins a new era for diplomat Bren Cameron, as he
navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees
and the alien atevi.
Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, has taken aboard
five thousand human refugees from a destroyed station in a
distant sector of space. With supplies and housing stretched to
the breaking point, it is clear that the refugees must be
relocated down to the planet, and soon. But not to the atevi
mainland: rather to the territory reserved for human, the island
of Mospheira.
Tabini-aiji, the powerful political head of the atevi, tasks his
brilliant human diplomat, Bren Cameron, to negotiate with the
Mospheiran government. For the Alpha Station refugees represent
a political faction that the people of Mospheira broke from two
centuries ago, and these Mospheirans are not enthusiastic about
welcoming these immigrants from space.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35664108-emergence?from_search=true
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Cobra Traitor (Cobra Rebellion 3) by Timothy Zahn
Release date - 2, January, 2018
Synopsis - CONCLUSION TO THE COBRA REBELLION TRILOGY
Cobras: technologically enhanced warriors bred to fight an alien
menace no ordinary human can withstand.
Once the Cobras fought the implacable alien invaders, the
Trofts, to an uneasy stalemate. But in recent years they have
faced an enemy more insidious, the oppressive regime known as
the Dominion of Man. Now, the Cobra Worlds find themselves under
the boot heels of the Dominion, forced into what amounts to
slavery, living under martial law. But two clans of Cobras—the
Moreaus and the Brooms—will not stand idly by and let the
Dominion run roughshod over their home worlds.
Now a threat from without looms. The alien Troft are again
planning an attack. Before, they came to conquer. This time
they’ve come to annihilate. If the Cobras are to survive, they
may have to do the unthinkable: align themselves with the hated
Dominion.
Cobras are not known for taking the easy path—and this may be
the hardest path of all. But If the Cobras can manage to avoid
complete destruction or abject slavery, a new day may finally
dawn on the Cobra worlds. The day of Freedom.
Book nine in the Cobra series and the conclusion of the Cobra
Rebellion trilogy, from #1 New York Times best-selling author
Timothy Zahn.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466818-cobra-traitor?ac=1&from_search=true
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Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga 4) by Pierce Brown
Release date - 16, January, 2018
Synopsis -
hey call him father, liberator, warlord, Reaper. But he feels a
boy as he falls toward the pale blue planet, his armor red, his
army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the
thirty-second of his life.
A decade ago, Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed
would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has
shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has
brought endless war. Now he must risk everything he has fought
for on one last desperate mission. Darrow still believes he can
save everyone, but can he save himself?
And throughout the worlds, other destinies entwine with Darrow’s
to change his fate forever:
A young Red girl flees tragedy in her refugee camp and achieves
for herself a new life she could never have imagined.
An ex-soldier broken by grief is forced to steal the most
valuable thing in the galaxy—or pay with his life.
And Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile to the sovereign,
wanders the stars with his mentor, Cassius, haunted by the loss
of the world that Darrow transformed, and dreaming of what will
rise from its ashes.
Red Rising was the story of the end of one universe, and Iron
Gold is the story of the creation of a new one. Witness the
beginning of a stunning new saga of tragedy and triumph from
masterly New York Times bestselling author Pierce Brown.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33257757-iron-gold?ac=1&from_search=true
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Elysium Fire (Prefect Dreyfus Emergency 2) by Alastair Reynolds
Release date - 23, January, 2018
Synopsis - A brilliant new space opera from "leading light" (LA
Review of Books) Alastair Reynolds.
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone,
forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise.
But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the
Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are
its operatives.
Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the
habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying
suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented
malfunction of their neural implants. And these "melters" leave
no clues behind as to the cause of their deaths...
As panic rises in the populace, a charismatic figure is sowing
insurrection, convincing a small but growing number of habitats
to break away from the Glitter Band and form their own
independent colonies.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35601772-elysium-fire?ac=1&from_search=true
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Neogenesis by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller
Release date - 9, January, 2018
Synopsis -
In this sequel to The Gathering Edge, sentient smart ships
survive in secret after being outlawed, aided by human allies.
But rumors of a new “Self Aware Logic” pique the interest of all
who’d like to push the boundaries of AI, for better and worse.
The Complex Logic Laws were the result of a war waged hundreds
of years in the past, when two human powers threw massive AI
navies at each other and nearly annihilated themselves. Being
human, they blamed their tools for this near miss; destroyed
what was left of the sentient ships, and made it illegal to be,
manufacture, or shelter an independent logic.
Strangely, however, the Free Ships and other AIs did not turn
themselves in or suicide, they merely became wary of humans, and
stayed under their scans. A clandestine support network grew
up, including hidden yards where smart ships were manufactured,
and mentors, humans specially trained to ease a new intelligence
into the universe, socialize them, and teach them what they
needed to know to survive.
Among those with a stake in the freedom of Independent Logics is
Theo Waitley, who is somewhat too famously the captain of
intelligent ship Bechimo. Theo's brother, Val Con yos'Phelium,
presides over a household that has for a generation employed an
AI butler. Recently, he approved the "birth" of the butler's
child, who was sent, with human mentor Tolly Jones, to rescue or
destroy an orphaned AI abandoned at a remote space station.
Then there's Uncle, the shadowy mastermind from the Old
Universe, whose many projects often skirt the boundaries of law,
both natural and man-made – and the puppet-masters at the Lyre
Institute, whose history is just as murky – and a good deal less
honorable.
All have an interest in the newly-awakening Self-Aware Logic
that is rumored to have the power to destroy universes.
The question is: Who will get to it first?
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466816-neogenesis?ac=1&from_search=true
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Points of Impact (Frontlines 6) by Marko Kloos
Release date - 9, January, 2018
Synopsis -
Humankind may have won the battle, but a new threat looms larger
than ever before…
Earth’s armed forces have stopped the Lanky advance and chased
their ships out of the solar system, but for CDC officer Andrew
Grayson, the war feels anything but won. On Mars, the grinding
duty of flushing out the twenty-meter-tall alien invaders from
their burrows underground is wearing down troops and equipment
at an alarming rate. And for the remaining extrasolar colonies,
the threat of a Lanky attack is ever present.
Earth’s game changer? New advanced ships and weapons, designed
to hunt and kill Lankies and place humanity’s militaries on
equal footing with their formidable foes. Andrew and his wife,
Halley, both now burdened with command responsibilities and in
charge of more lives than just their own, are once again in
humanity’s vanguard as they prepare for this new phase in the
war. But the Lankies have their own agenda…and in war, the enemy
doesn’t usually wait until you are prepared. As Andrew is once
again plunged into the chaos and violence of war with an
unyielding species, he is forced to confront the toll this
endless conflict is taking on them all, and the high price of
survival…at any cost.
Link -
HTML https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35391324-points-of-impact?ac=1&from_search=true
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