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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 22
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"A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions...
22) Nemesis games
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Expanse volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
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532 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"The fifth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel! A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen....
23) The K-Factor
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This is a classic science fiction short story by Harry Harrison. The K-Factor is an equation used to asses the probability of war. A young man is charged with using the K-Factor and the field of Sociatics to avert war on another planet. However, there is a traitor in his midst who has the power to cause a catastrophe. Will he find the traitor? Find out in this classic sci-fi tale. This work is part of our Vintage Sci-Fi Classics Series, a series in...
24) Plague Ship
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Solar Queen volume 2
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English
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The Solar Queen series continues with a riotous adventure in space and a battle against a deadly plague. Apprentice cargo-master Dane Thorson and the crew of the Solar Queen travel to the new planet Sargol to trade with the Salariki, a strange race of cat-men, for the fabulous Koros stones. When an Inter-Solar trading ship tries to cut in on their trading rights, they're forced, according to Salariki custom, to fight a duel with a representative...
25) Broken
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Special Commander Joshua Cook has a secret, she's sure of it. He's the Coalition's latest golden boy, but she knows he has a past that's far from sparkling.Ready to find out what his secret is, she isn't ready for the man himself. Josh is the rudest, meanest, crudest Coalition officer she's come across. She's about to give up when the unthinkable occurs – they get stuck on a desert planet far from help.They've got to rely on each other to survive....
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Fractalverse novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
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English
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A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira Navárez finds an alien relic. At first delighted, her elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a...
27) A Trip to Venus
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When evening came I turned to the books, and gathered a great deal about the fiery planet, including the fact that a stout man, a Daniel Lambert, could jump his own height there with the greatest ease. Very likely, but I was seeking information on the strange light, and as I could not find any I resolved to walk over and consult my old friend, Professor Gazen, the well-known astronomer, who had made his mark by a series of splendid researches with...
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She's a loner. Always has been. She's fought to survive, tooth and nail.
He's a prince of the Arterian Royal Family — the greatest power in the galaxy.
They shouldn't meet. Their paths should never intersect. But they do.
Because the Milky Way is on the verge of total war once more. Together, they can save everyone. If they are torn apart, all will fall.......A six-episode serialization, Shattered Destiny: A Galactic Adventure takes you on a...
29) The Fire People
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[...]"The first of the new meteors landed on the earth in November, 1940. It was discovered by a farmer in his field near Brookline, Massachusetts, shortly after daybreak on the morning of the 11th. Astronomically, the event was recorded by the observatory at Harvard as the sudden appearance of what apparently was a new star, increasing in the short space of a few hours from invisibility to a power beyond that of the first magnitude, and then as rapidly...
30) A Plain Jane
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What if you had lived your whole life thinking you were normal? No, worse than normal – plain? What would happen if one of the most highly trained and vicious assassins in the galaxy attacked you one warm summer's night? What would happen if you were thrust into an adventure with the galaxy's greatest heroic heartthrob? What would happen if a mysterious and ancient race appeared with one desire – to kill you? What would you do?Jane grew up knowing...
31) Ghost of Mind
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Alice is now on her own. So is John. But it won't last.When a mysterious swarm of ships descends upon Alice, she soon finds herself inside a waking nightmare. With no one to rely on, could this be the end?On the other side of the Rim, the Pegasus encounters a similar mystery. Ultimately John is separated from his crew when they need him more than ever.The lives of everyone aboard the Pegasus are on the line, and there's only two people in the universe...
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"Set within a system of decaying world-ships travelling through deep space, this breakout novel of epic science fiction follows a pair of sisters who must wrest control of their war-torn legion of worlds--and may have to destroy everything they know in order to survive. On the outer rim of the universe, a galactic war has been waged for centuries upon hundreds of world-ships. But these worlds will continue to die through decay and constant war unless...
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The Alien was really alien-and Earth was faced with a strange problem indeed. They had to have a superman. And there weren't any. So.... Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction and collaborated with him on...
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MASTER SPY OF THE RED PLANET Jery Delvin had a most unusual talent. He could detect the flaws in any scheme almost on sight-even where they had eluded the best brains in the ad agency where he worked. So when the Chief of World Security told him that he had been selected as the answer to the Solar System's greatest mystery, Jery assumed that it was because of his mental agility. But when he got to Mars to find out why fifteen boys had vanished from...
35) Etrusca's Vow
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Etrusca was a warrior woman in the distant past of Nisandros, who defied the clan heads and fought to turn her world from the worship of the Ancestors and back to worshipping and serving Enlo. For that she nearly died.Many times. Blue tattoo lines marked the scars around her eyes and mouth where her enemies tried to blind her and silence her forever. Women of Nisandros tattooed their eyes with blue lines to honor Etrusca and to vow service to Enlo....
36) Pirate
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Travel the galaxy with this gypsy pirate as he looks for treasure and finds trouble instead. The universe might be out to get him, but he's not giving in without a fight. Earth: a space pirate's dream when it comes to booty, but not a good place to hide when bounty hunters come looking. Escaping amidst a hail of fire, Rafe finds himself stuck with a human passenger who seems to think she can order him around. She'll soon learn who's the captain. And...
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When Queen Samara Rani fulfills the promise she made to Emperor Valentin Kos to visit his court and meet with his advisors, she knows they won't welcome her with open arms, especially when she's been tasked with discovering the traitors within their ranks-traitors she tricked out of five million credits.
As soon as Samara begins her investigation it becomes clear that Valentin's advisors want her gone and they aren't picky about how. After their...
38) Sinner
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Waking up not knowing his name probably isn't the worst thing that ever happened to him. I think. With no memories, he can't know for sure, and while he chases the thin threads of recollection, he must fight for his life in Lac'uus. Also known as the pit, Lac'uus is where those with vices come to play. Except he's not one of the buyers. Sold to pay a debt, Oblivion must fight if he wants to survive and prove cunning if he wants to escape. Or-he could...
39) Rebel
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A prophecy says he's the one who will find the lost Rhomanii homeworld. Fate has governed his whole life. But he's not letting it control his future. The Rhomanii are looking for the man foretold in the prophecy, a leader that will unite the clans and lead them home. Some addled seers decided that man is Rafe. That caused a bit of an issue, mostly because there is a second foretelling, one calling him the destroyer. Cooler name, but it comes with...
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One of the first novels about interplanetary travel, A Honeymoon in Space takes readers on a journey across the solar system Lenox, the Earl of Redgrave, has made the greatest scientific discovery in the history of the world: a flying ship with the power to break free of Earth's gravity and take to the stars. But before he uses it to expand humanity's understanding of the universe, he has some personal business to attend to-namely, wooing an old flame....
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