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Can an academic condemned by an authoritarian world government discover who or what build the ruins on an alien world before the voracious local life eats him alive?

Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Academics survive violent conquest and kidnapping at the manipulator appendages of aggressively expansionist aliens only to discover the rule is still "publish or die"

The Mercy of Gods (The Captives’ War, volume 1) by James S. A. Corey
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A start-up restaurant's staff unexpectedly finds themselves eyeball deep in space pirates and not the bodacious variety.

You Sexy Thing  (Disco Space Opera, volume 1) by Cat Rambo 
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It's up to a group of plucky, thoroughly indoctrinated child-soldiers to save humans from alien domination... so that humans can ruthlessly dominate the aliens. Is this the end game or is there an even ender game?

Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh 
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The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard"


Captured by pirates, a scavenger is offered a path out of indenture or worse and into the lethally competitive world of pirate council politics.

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