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Author
Series
Expanse volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Language
English
Description
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of...
4) Dark age
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Description
For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place? Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind...
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 6
Language
English
Description
"When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people-who knew?) Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again! A new standalone adventure in the New York Times-bestselling,...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (1138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew, as they try to get home after a space probe beams them 75 light years away from Federation space.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
192 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jedi Padawan Nuru Kungurama and the clone troopers of Breakout Squad are sent on a diplomatic mission to the Unknown Regions by Chancellor Palpatine. Traveling with renegade cargo pilot Lalo Gunn, the young Jedi and his clone escorts are in for an unexpected surprise when they encounter the infamous Black Hole Pirates.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (1421 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1997, Professor John Robinson along with his wife and three children, and Major Don West are chosen to establish a colony on the third planet of the Alpha Centauri system. As they leave Earth, Dr. Zachary Taylor, a sabateur, is trapped aboard the ship, and his extra weight means the ship can't reach Alpha Centauri. Now the ship is lost, and they fight for survival as they search for the way home.
12) The martian race
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Nebula Award–winning author of Timescape and Foundation's Fear comes a hard-science thriller about the race to Mars.When an explosion of the rocket launching the Mars Transit Vehicle kills four crewmen, the US decides to redirect its energies to near-Earth projects, killing the manned mission to Mars. But tycoon John Axelrod assembles a consortium to fund the project, and he expects to net billions. But a European-Asian airbus will make...
13) Yesterday's son
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the help of the Vulcan leader T'Pau, Spock gets permission to use the Guardian of Forever, a portal through time constructed by a long-vanished race, to venture into the past. On another trip into history, on the planet Sarpeidon, Spock had loved a woman who could not return with him to the future, and now Spock wishes to see the son she bore him, 5,000 years earlier. But a Romulan attack on the Guardian's planet could interfere, unless the EnterpriseTM...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
4 volumes in 1 (168, 151, 152, 184 pages) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A new Starfleet crew must assemble to aid an ancient empire after its tragic collapse! The ancient Thallonian Empire has collapsed, throwing an entire sector of the galaxy into chaos and unrest. Billions of sentient beings are faced with starvation, warfare, and worse. Faced with a tragedy of interstellar proportions, Starfleet assembles a new, handpicked crew to help where it can and report what it finds. Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, recommended by...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arrow Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
x, 403 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the blockbuster movie, Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, we learned about the "Rule of Two," which decrees that there can only ever be two Sith Lords in existence at once -- Master and Apprentice. The powerful Sith Lord who destroyed all his adversaries, killed his own Master, and invented the Rule of Two was the legendary Darth Bane. This is his story.
Author
Publisher
Prestel
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This sci-fi inspired taxi trip will have kids roaring with laughter. Victor is everyone's favorite extraterrestrial taxi driver, but he has a big problem. His memory is terrible! He can never remember his way around the galaxy. When he drops off his passengers at the wrong locations, there are some unexpected and hilarious high jinks. Elsa Klever's wonderful drawings incorporate every day experiences--like going to the dentist, the library, or the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
For three full decades, on television and in film, actor William Shatner has portrayed one of the legendary heroes of science fiction: James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the Starship Enterprise. Although Kirk was believed to have perished at the conclusion of Star Trek Generations, his amazing literary resurrection led to an acclaimed trilogy of national bestsellers, The Ashes of Eden, The Return, and Avenger. Now William Shatner again brings his unique...
18) Death troopers
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Imperial prison barge Purge breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But soon after a boarding party returns from a scavenging expedition, a horrific disease breaks out and takes the lives of all but a half-dozen survivors whose only option forces them to return to the Star Destroyer--and the soulless, unstoppable dead waiting...
19) Sarek
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spock and his father, Sarek, join forces to foil a plan that threatens to destroy the Federation. For Sarek the mission could not come at a worse time as his wife Amanda, is dying. But duty to the Federation wins out over love for a woman.
20) New Earth
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Award-winning author Ben Bova brings us New Earth, his latest tale of science fiction. The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth. All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on...
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