Starpilot's Grave

Author	Helen S. Wright
ISBN	0445209836

What a fabulous read. A space opera with a twisty SF based plot and loads of heart. Exciting and engaging--the worldbuilding isn't spoon fed so it takes a bit of time to get to grips but all becomes clear soon enough.

It's the cast that does it for me. The three MCs are two men in a queer relationship,...

Author	Tanya Huff
ISBN	0756400627

The Barnes & Noble Review
What happens when a staff sergeant questions a two-star general's parentage to his face? Torin Kerr discovers the answer in Tanya Huff's much-anticipated sequel to Valor's Choice.

Separated from her company, Kerr is ordered to report to a top-secret reconnaissance...

Author	C.L. Anderson
ISBN	0553592173

An Imploding Star System.
A Murdered Galactic Spy.
A Woman Seeking the Truth—and Finding the Unbelievable…

The Erasmus System is a sprawling realm of slavery, smugglers, spies—and constant, creeping decrepitude. Here everyone who is not part of the ruling Four Families...

Author	S.L. Viehl
ISBN	0451460081

It was an enjoyable, quick read except for the idiotic romance. Viehl writes great aliens. She points out potential cultural differences from humans in a way that feels objective and interesting. And she's a good story teller. But she has serious issues when it comes to love and respect. The guy in this...

Author	Sharon Lee
ISBN	0441010539

Too much fun! Among the best in this enormous series so far. Somewhat a fave, I read it repeatedly, but only give it 4.5 ⭐️stars because of the abrupt scene hopping. This is a mixed genre: Space opera with magic. I enjoyed the character redemption, the reunion of brothers, the brief battle scenes,...

Author	Lois McMaster Bujold
ISBN	0743435583

Two things. First, the rating. I acknowledge this isn't an undying classic. If you're looking for science fiction with literary prose, go read Ursula Le Guin or Ray Bradbury or William Gibson. Or for the "Big Ideas" go to Robert Heinlein or Isaac Asimov or Arthur C. Clarke. What Bujold offers is different--characters...

Author	Elizabeth Moon
ISBN	1857239644

Rules of Engagement is the sequel to Once a Hero (1997), and shares some supporting characters with the Heris Serrano trilogy (1993-95). It's reasonably self-contained, though you'll enjoy it more if you've read some of the preceding books, all of which I've liked.

Esmay Suiza is a likeably...

Author	Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
ISBN	0445207590

Now offered at Book View Cafe as an e-book, this space opera/mystery is just as much fun to read as it was when it first came out.

Kimbriel has created a fascinatingly complex culture in the Nualans, who have adapted to a dangerously radioactive planet. This is the kind of space opera I love most,...

Author

Kristine Smith

For eighteen years, Captain Jani Kilian has been hiding from her bloody past. Now she faces trial for what she once did, what she knows now, and what she has become.

Eighteen years ago, she was saved by a radical--and illegal--medical procedure that added alien genetic material to her own. But...

Author	Chris Bunch
ISBN	1841490830

The Empire is in chaos. The once-great Imperial Navy has been shattered in battle and lies burning in space, riven by a civil war that threatens to engulf humanity’s future. For the revered Eternal Emperor is not the man his subjects thought him to be—and may not even be human at all. And it is Sten—Imperial...

Author	Sherwood Smith
ISBN	0812520246

Forgot to add this in when we re-released it.

On August 13, 1977 Dave Trowbridge and I sat down at his cool little carved table, with wine and other substances to inspire us, candles to write by, and began the Exordium saga. What a long, strange trip it was!

We talk about the process of writing...

Author	Kate Elliott
ISBN	0553287885

In the epic conclusion to Kate Elliott’s Highroad trilogy, Lily Ransome and the members of the Forlorn Hope are driven through the cosmos on a mission to find the fabled highroad—the place where humanity was born

Lily Ransome forsook her conventional fate on the planet of Unruli for swashbuckling...

Author	Timothy Zahn
ISBN	0765346443

HUMANITY'S LAST HOPE

It begins when a man delivers a message for former government agent Frank Compton--only to fall dead at his feet. The message is a summons from the Spiders, the exotic and mysterious creatures who run the Quadrail, an incredible transportation system connecting civilizations...