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"With the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion--in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic...
2) Death's end
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Series
Language
English
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With The Three-Body Problem , English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the multiple-award-winning and bestselling Three-Body Trilogy by China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. Three-Body was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. It was also named a finalist for the Nebula Award, making it the first translated novel to be nominated for a major SF award since...
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Series
Old Man's War universe volume 6
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Humans expanded into space ... only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement ... for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more. Now the Colonial Union is living on borrowed time--a couple of decades at most,...
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Series
Captive's war volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Carryx--part empire, part hive--have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin. Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research team. Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the...
Author
Series
Troy rising volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books ; New York : Distributed by Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
404 p. ;
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English
Author
Series
Vampire Earth volume 3
Publisher
Roc/New American Library
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 341 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
8) Echo
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Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 5
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English
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Eccentric Sunset Tuttle spent his life searching in vain for forms of alien life. Thirty years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic, indecipherable symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle's onetime lover, and antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is anxious to discover what secret the tablet holds. It could be proof that Tuttle had found what he was looking for. To find out, Benedict and his assistant embark on their own voyage of...
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English
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"The mere act of walking on the Earth is a challenge for our most unusual protagonist -- a shapeshifting, gender-bending alien. After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, they find themself stranded on an unfamiliar planet, where gravity is a disabling force. They'll need to practice walking in the Earth's atmosphere to survive. And what better way to practice than hunt delicious humans? They chooses their prey, shifts their gender,...
10) Tomorrow's kin
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Series
Yesterday's kin volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Follows the arrival of alien embassies who meet with the United Nations amid human fear and speculation before obscure scientist Dr. Marianne Jenner is secretly invited to visit the aliens and prevent an imminent disaster.
11) Embassytown
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Language
English
Description
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
12) Hallucinations
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Aliens descend in crystal spaceships to make contact with people through guitar amp distortion and glowing animal skulls.
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Through a series of groundbreaking on-camera experiments on human DNA, irrefutable science, interviews with leading experts from Harvard and Stanford, and jaw-dropping stories of individuals from around the world who share similar accounts of extraterrestrial encounters, viewers will find themselves pondering the nature of their own reality and the true origin of the human species.
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century-Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009, c1951
Edition
Full frame format.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A spaceship lands in Washington, D.C., capturing the attention of the world. But the alien emissary (Michael Rennie) it brings refuses to reveal his mission to any single government, leaving the military, the politicians, and millions of ordinary people to wait in fear. Soon their distrust turns to calls for violence. But one young woman and her son befriend him and soon realize that they may be all that stands between the human race and total destruction....
15) The hot gate
Author
Series
Troy rising volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tyler Vernon and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station "Troy" face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny. And the very survival of the Earth and its people is not all that is at stake. The galaxy itself must choose to live free or die--and if the tyrants win this battle, darkness will fall across the galaxy for millennia to come.
16) Kelvoo's testimonial: a Kloormar's autobiography : surviving the aftermath of human first contact
Author
Series
Kelvoo's chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Phil Bailey
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 371 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the human expedition arrived, the kloormari inhabitants of Kuw'baal welcomed them--especially Kelvoo, who formed a strong friendship with first-contact administrator Sam Buchanan. The kloormari in Kelvoo's village came to respect, admire, and trust all humans. After the expedition departs, a new human visitor convinces Kelvoo and eight other kloormari to join a "goodwill mission" to faraway star systems. Kelvoo's team soon learns that not all...
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English
Appears on list
Description
Stories of your life and others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change -- the inevitable rise of automations or the appearance of aliens -- while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy.
Publisher
Turner Pictures Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (440 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben is placed in harm's way by someone who he thought he could trust. And when the 2nd Mass are trapped in the basement, the situation takes a turn for the worst.
19) Alien encounters
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Examines evidence that suggests extraterrestrial UFOs exist, looking at some of the more than 3,000 physical trace cases documented since the 1960s, from impressions left in the dirt to scientific abnormalities that have yet to be explained.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Physical Desc
620 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four men who reunite every year during hunting season in the woods of Maine, encounter a disoriented, incoherent stranger who drags the men into a terrifying struggle with a creature from another world, and their only chance for survival lies in their shared past.
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