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1) Chasm City
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English
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Named one of the best novels of the year by both Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle, Alastair Reynolds's debut Revelation Space redefined the space opera. With Chasm City, Reynolds invites you to reenter the bizarre universe of his imagination as he redefines Hell... The once-utopian Chasm City-a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet-has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic...
2) Blindsight
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English
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Set in 2082, Peter Watts' Blindsight is fast-moving hard SF that pulls readers into a futuristic world where a mind-bending alien encounter is about to unfold. After the Firefall, all eyes are locked heavenward as a team of specialists aboard the self-piloted spaceship Theseus hurtles outbound to intercept an unknown intelligence.
3) Xenocide
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Afraid that the descolada--the deadly virus that the pequininos require to transform themselves into adults--may escape the confines of Lusitania, the Starways Congress orders the destruction of the entire planet.
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English
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Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap offworld before he pays the ultimate price.
5) Heart change
Author
Series
Celta HeartMate romances volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Berkley Sensation trade paperback ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Series
Vatta's war volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Although the exciting military career she hoped for never got off the ground, Ky Vatta ended up seeing plenty of combat when she took the helm of one of the commercial transport vessels in her family's fleet...and steered it into a full-blown war. Now the lessons she learned in that trial by fire are about to pay off-because this time, the war has come to her. Someone has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport Ltd., Ky's father's...
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Series
Revelation space universe volume 1
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English
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Description
As human colonists settle on the planet of Amarantin, a world whose native inhabitants mysteriously vanished nearly a million years before, one man becomes convinced that their disappearance could hold the key to human survival on the planet.
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Series
Dark Wing volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 26
Physical Desc
491 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
10) Embassytown
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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.
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 20
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 434 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
13) Calculating God
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
14) Kenobi
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Series
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English
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As tensions escalate on Tatooine between the farmers and a tribe of Sand People led by a ruthless war chief, Ben finds himself drawn into the fight, endangering the very mission that brought him to the desert planet.
15) Darth Plagueis
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Darth Plagueis, a Sith Lord who knows the Dark Side so well that he has power over life and death, joins forces with his apprentice, one-day emperor Darth Sidious, to try to dominate the whole galaxy.
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Vatta's war volume 5
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English
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Description
Kylara Vatta has one final opportunity to muster the forces to destroy forever her enemy's power and to restore her family's name.
17) The Grays
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English
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After the decades-long manipulation of human bloodlines in a small Kentucky town by a group of aliens, terrified nine-year-old Conner struggles to understand what he was bred to be.
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Alien huntress volume 2
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English
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Description
Eden Black walks among humans, protecting them from the murderous evil of other-worlders who abduct and enslave. And though she appears to be human herself, Eden is an alien, a Raka, distinguished by her golden hair and skin, and gifted with the ominous ability to kill without remorse -- and with total accuracy. That is, until the fateful night she has one shot to eliminate her target, a human slaver -- and misses.
"Failure" is not in Eden's vocabulary....
19) Bloodline
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Language
English
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Description
A thrilling prequel to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, set roughly six years before the events of the film.
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 27
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Physical Desc
538 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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