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Another Last Flight For Craggy.    by Gary Weston
Price: Free! 50820 words. Language: English. Published on May 18, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

Mars continues to turn green and the population is growing like topsy. On the Varlindran ship, they learn of bad news for all of them. It becomes top priority to prepare for all out war, but with resources stretched, life becomes hard just to survive. Dixon Cragg is in the thick of things, and the big question is, just how many enemies do the humans have? Craggy is about to find out.
The Star Sloop    by Verity Fountain-Douglas
Price: Free! 154660 words. Language: English. Published on May 18, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

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The first volume of the critical Life and Times of Grant Elik, widely known as 'the Great Gunner,' who used revolutionary action in the Interstellar Armed Fleet to hold sway in the Outer Worlds later in the present millennium.
Death on Taurus    by J.M. Porup
Price: Free! 91930 words. Language: English. Published on May 3, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » General.

On the bullfighting planet of Taurus, a half-man, half-bull race stages ritual blood sacrifices to the gods—human viewers light-years away. High Priest Vizzer loathes the fights and wants to end them. But when he deposes the king and outlaws the fights, Vizzer comes face to face with an enraged and ancient god. And in so doing, he must also confront the truth of his own savage nature.
New Ceres Issue 1    by Twelfth Planet Press
Price: Free! 21200 words. Language: English. Published on May 2, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk.

On New Ceres you will find coffee houses, highwaymen, drinks, gambling and illegal high technology. New Ceres' New Enlightenment constrains society as well as liberating old thoughts and literature and drinking customs. The planet plays interstellar politics to defend its independence and it recruits refugees from Old Earth and the conquered New Alliance planets to maintain some dangerous habits.
Beacon (Part I)    by Jonathan C. Gillespie
Price: Free! 6750 words. Language: English. Published on April 26, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

Tersias and Mally have lived their lives in orbit around Beacon, the last star in the universe. But now the young couple have done the impossible: they have conceived. And something has noticed. A short story of about six thousand words.
Iástron    by James C. Dunn
Price: Free! 141670 words. Language: British English. Published on April 8, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

Two-hundred years ago the powerful Iástron race disappeared. Fifty years ago it died out completely. Darkness followed. War and death and suffering, born of prejudice and fear, fills the Four Systems. Crilshar’s power grows. The Systemal Alignment trembles. Titan, the only force able to fight back, has never been weaker.
Into Tolari Space    by Christie Meierz
Price: Free! 16620 words. Language: English. Published on March 27, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories.

Two short stories from the author of The Marann. First Contact Earth's Ambassador to Tolar, Smithton Adler Russell, gets a call in the middle of the night. Field Work The ruler of Monralar is ambitious, ruthless, and out to unseat the Sural. Can one laborer put a stop to the Monral's scheme before Tolar's advanced technology is exposed to the Trade Alliance?
Star Wars - Biggs    by Mark A.J. Cristobal
Price: Free! 13110 words. Language: English. Published on March 25, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

Biggs Darklighter; Hero of the Rebellion, one of the original members of Rogue Squadron and the bestfriend of Luke Skywalker. Witness his life, adventure and heroism the way it has never been told before. From the author that gave you the fan fiction Artoo Detoo: Droid of a Kind (Volume 1), we present to you; Star Wars: Biggs. Enjoy reading and May the Force be with you all, always.
Las Aventuras Espaciales de William Perez William    by Joseph Remesar
Price: Free! 14190 words. Language: Spanish. Published on March 23, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

En un futuro no muy lejano, en una era dominada ya no por naciones sino por inmensas corporaciones, donde viajar por el hiperespacio y conversar con Inteligencias Artificiales es común, un solitario ingeniero lucha por sobrevivir e impactar, llevándonos de aventura en aventura,desde los asteriodes hasta más allá del Sistema Solar
Space Viking Legacy: The Tanith Gambit    by Dietmar Wehr
Price: Free! 78890 words. Language: English. Published on February 24, 2013. Fiction » Science fiction » Space opera.

The Tanith Gambit is the first in a series of sequels to H. Beam Piper's classic Space Opera novel Space Viking. His hard-hitting saga of revenge and massive spherical spaceships fighting space battles, is continued along with the same kind of realistic space combat and strategic/technological/political/economic back stories that David Weber's Honor Harrington series is known for.