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English
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A liminal space is a threshold. A crossing-over place. In Liminal Space by Jackie Gamber, stories are showcased with lives and worlds in states of transition. Meet mysterious carnies, time-traveling dragons, and discover secrets on walks in the woods.
This anthology includes short stories and poetry, such as Meda's Clearing, Dreamcatcher Bridge, and the two-part novella The Time Scar. In it, Jackie Gamber captures the magic of the everyday, and...
Author
Series
Delta-V volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroid--kicking off a new space race in which Earth's climate crisis could well hang in the balance"--
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Series
Celta HeartMate romances volume 12
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Berkley Sensation trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 372 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
On the faraway planet Celta, Jace has always been a loner. Glyssa, his former mate, is determined to track him down and have him claim her. She finds him at the excavation site of a lost starship, and they find that their electric connection from years ago is sparking once more.
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Series
Pandominion volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds. Except that they're really just one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an A.I. threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they'll eradicate it by whatever means necessary. Scientist Hadiz Tambuwal is looking for a solution to her own Earth's environmental collapse when she stumbles across the secret of inter-dimensional travel, a secret...
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English
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At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and Miles' story is told from the points of view of four of them: Anna, a woman in her forties; Mark, a man in his sixties; May, a woman in her eighties; and a ten-year-old named Brooke. The thing...
7) Elder race
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English
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"Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living...
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Series
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet. But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ... wasn't an official one. That, indeed, its commander may have been acting as an unwitting cats-paw for the Founders, the ancient alliance of very old,...
9) Revenant
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (11 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
Jadzia Dax has been a friend to Etom Prit, the Trill Trade Commissioner, over two lifetimes. When Etom visits Deep Space Nine with the request to rein in his wayward granddaughter Nemi, Dax can hardly say no. It seems like an easy assignment: visit a resort casino while on shore leave, and then bring her old friend Nemi home. But upon arrival, Dax finds Nemi has changed over the years in terrifying ways and the pursuit of the truth will plunge Dax...
Author
Series
Binti volume 3
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend for herself, alone on a ship full of the beings who murdered...
11) Shards of earth
Author
Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
548 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Idris, an enhanced human, and his crew, 50 years after the destruction of the earth by alien aggressors, the Architects, discover something strange in space that many people would kill to obtain--and could herald the return of the enemy.
After Earth was destroyed mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors,...
12) Orbital: a novel
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English
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"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...
13) Lesser evil
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Series
Star Wars. Thrawn Ascendancy volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
548 pages : illustration ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The fate of the Chiss Ascendancy hangs in the balance in the epic finale of the Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. For thousands of years The Chiss Ascendancy has been an island of calm, a center of power, and a beacon of integrity. Led by the Nine Ruling Families, their leadership stands as a bulwark of stability against the Chaos of the Unknown Regions. But that stability has been eroded by a cunning foe...
14) The deep sky
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind-except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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