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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
Venus ascendant volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Life can exist anywhere. And anywhere there is life, there is home. In the swirling clouds of Venus, the families of La Colonie live on floating plant-like trawlers, salvaging what they can in the fierce acid rain and crackling storms. Outside is dangerous, but humankind's hold on the planet is fragile and they spend most of their days simply surviving. But Venus carries its own secrets, too. In the depths, there is a wind that shouldn't exist. And...
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First mass market edition.
Physical Desc
493 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Harry Wilson counters hostile alien forces, angry humans, and unpredictable elements from the universe in order to protect the interests of the Colonial Union.
5) Foundation
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 3
Language
English
Description
A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, plants a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind.
6) Beachhead
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1992.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience...
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
Author
Series
Revelation space universe volume 1
Language
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.
10) Chasm City
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Series
Language
English
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Description
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...
11) Goliath
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Language
English
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Description
"In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists...
12) 2312
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Language
English
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Description
"The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, on the city of Terminator, itself a miracle of engineering...
Author
Series
Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bean moves with three of his children into a derelict space colony ship where they hope for a cure to engineered genes that give them high intelligence and short lives, a situation that is complicated when space-time distortions cause them to be forgotten by humanity.
Author
Series
Mars Patel volume 3
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning to Earth after escaping the Martian colony, Mars Patel and his friends, along with genius billionaire Oliver Pruitt, discover that all the adults have mysteriously vanished and, as tensions rise and new mysteries are revealed, must somehow discover the truth.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School. For Earth...
Author
Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors"--
Author
Publisher
Hampshire House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In these two sci-fi novellas, the difficult relationship of science and religion is explored. In THE GOD QUESTION a programming breakthrough at Stanford University produces the first supercomputer with intelligence greater than a human's - far greater. The federal government quickly confiscates the software as a security threat. However, working in secret, two scientists with a backup copy decide to program their own supercomputer with it and ask...
18) Rolling thunder
Author
Series
Thunder and lightning (John Varley) volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A third generation Martian, Lieutenant Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Strickland joins the Music, Arts, and Drama Division of the Martian Navy and is sent to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, as an entertainer, but she soon discovers that hidden dangers lurk everywhere.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Todd, one month away from an important birthday, learns all the tough lessons of adulthood when he is forced to flee after discovering a secret near the town where he lives.
20) Shipstar
Author
Series
Bowl of heaven volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a direct path heading toward the same system the human ship is...
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