 | Cordelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.09 The first in the Vorkosigan series. This is a combination of the first two books in the series, which focuses on the main character Miles' parents. A truly excellent series that doesn't rely on cliches.
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 | City of Pearl by Karen Traviss
Buy new: $7.50 / Used from: $0.75 An environmental hazard officer leads a mission of scientists to a "new" planet and becomes involved in a long-standing war between species and planets. The planet and its guardian holds a neat, new disasterous secret
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 | Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) by Jack Campbell
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.99 Jack "Black Jack" Geary has recently been found amid the stars in cryogenic stasis for 100 years. His reputation has grown beyond belief and the "new" war is now a century old. Jack struggles against hidebound traditions created on the basis of his supposed reputation to try and get this stranded fleet back home.
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 | Gabriel's Ghost by Linnea Sinclair
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.47 Anything by Linnea Sinclair has excellent characterization, but this is one of my favorites. It is the start of a series (but I'd put it here regardless)! Former captain Chasidah Bergren finds herself helping former smuggler Gabriel Sullivan to stop a horrific conspiracy to breed outlawed killing machines.
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 | Grimspace by Ann Aguirre
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.98 Terrific writing, high action, great characters! A new favorite.
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 | On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) by David Weber
Buy used from: $0.74 The first in the long-running Honor Harrington series. A starship officer, Honor rises to the challenge with creative strategies and derring-do.
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 | Hunting Party by Elizabeth Moon
Buy used from: $0.26 This book starts the Heris Serrano series. While this book itself has flaws, the series heats up in subsequently better books in the story of Heris Serrano, who is an officer betrayed by her superiors and who becomes a captain of a private yacht for a wealthy horse-obsessed older woman.
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 | Once A Hero by Elizabeth Moon
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 While technically still part of the Heris Serrano series by Moon, this book switches its focus to Lt. Esmay Suiza, who shies away from leadership positions, while continually forced to and succeeding in them. This is where the series takes off wonderfully!
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 | Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) by Orson Scott Card
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 A classic. Needed in every scifi fan's library.
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 | STAINLESS STEEL RAT IS BORN, A (Stainless Steel Rat Books) by Harry Harrison
Buy used from: $0.19 First in the Stainless Steel Rat books. Jim DiGriz is a con artist and theif who makes his way through the galaxy with fun and verve.
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 | Mutiny (Starship, Book 1) by Mike Resnick
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $10.90 Wilson Cole is a good anti-hero who manages to win against some impressive odds, with style.
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