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41) Deathtroopers
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Death troopers volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009
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...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"At the edge an isolated star system, Kel Gardavros, once a member of an Order whose military arm was disbanded and scattered across the galaxy, finds her past intruding in the form of a long-dormant Pale war machine that is suddenly reactivated, primed to kill every sentient creature on the planet"--
43) Neptune
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the outer settlements of the human-occupied solar system, there are rumors about what was found deep under Neptune's frozen seas when a Hungarian billionaire's ship was lost with all hands. But the rumors are far more tame than the reality. When the billionaire's daughter mounts a mission to find the truth, her discoveries will up-end humanity's understanding of our origins on Earth"-- Provided by publisher.
44) Salvaged
Author
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Rosalyn Devar is on the run from her famous family, the bioengineering job she's come to hate, and her messed-up life. She's run all the way to outer space, where she's taken a position as a "space janitor," cleaning up ill-fated research expeditions. But no matter how far she goes, Rosalyn can't escape herself. After too many mistakes on the job, she's given one last chance: take care of salvaging the Brigantine, a research vessel that has gone dark,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Earth's population is divided between only two existing countries which cannot manage to cooperate in any way, until a distress signal arrives from Titan's first settler and neither can afford to rescue her on their own if they act separately. Ambrose wakes up on board with successfully reaching his sister the primary thought in his mind until he notices several strange circumstances: he doesn't remember the launch, the ship's OS is voiced by his...
47) Shadow fall
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The daredevil Republic pilots of Alphabet return in this exciting new entry in the Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron trilogy. After their narrow victory over Shadow Wing, Alphabet Squadron is on the attack, hunting their adversaries within the Imperial Remnant. Shadow Wing is desperate for direction and leadership--and they find both in the iron will of Major Keize, their former commander and Yrica Quell's one-time mentor. As battle lines blur, Alphabet...
Author
Series
Illuminae files volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all"--
49) Implacable
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary fears the greatest threat to humanity may be itself in this gripping continuation of the New York Times bestselling series. As far from explored space as any human has ever been, Geary and the Alliance fleet are on their own, protecting a diplomatic mission in territory belonging to an alien species with still unknown motives. His already complex and dangerous mission is further imperiled by deadly challenges from...
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Rosemary Harper doesn't expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she's never met anyone remotely like the ship's diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy...
Author
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The behavioral psychologist onboard a survey ship headed to a planet ripe for colonization, Dr. Grace Park must determine the origin of a strange phenomenon that is causing the crew to suffer mental breaks without losing her own mind in the process.
52) Cave paintings
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Our hero travels all alone on a spaceship, through the universe, past galaxies, comets and planets to go visit his grandmother on Earth for the summer holidays. She takes him to visit an ancient cave, where he discovers handprints and drawings of unknown animals made by human beings just like him. To top off his wonderful holiday she gives him mysterious objects that once belonged to his grandfather -- paper and crayons."--
53) Up Jim River
Author
Series
January dancer volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The Hound Bridget ban has vanished and the Kennel has given up the search. But her daughter, the harper Méarana, has enlisted the scarred man, Donovan, to aid her in her search.
55) Meru
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a future where human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy, Jayanthi, the adopted human child alloys, and her alloy pilot Vaha are sent to test the habitability of an Earthlike planet called Meru, an unoccupied new world, and the future of human-alloy relations.
56) Great north road
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Futuristic speculation combines with murder when a scientific expedition on a faraway planet searches for an alien species only to be stalked by a determined killer who may be a hostile alien or a member of their own team.
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Astronauts Elma York, Nicole Wargin and Myrtle Lindholm continue to forge new paths for women astronauts as they work to achieve the International Aerospace Coalition's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes uninhabitable."-Publisher.
58) Apes and Angels
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth's vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was...
59) Jack blasts off!
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Lady is mad at Jack, she decides to send him and Rex on a one-way trip into outer space, and while she enjoys some peace and quiet, Jack and Rex get into trouble on a far-off moon, where they meet an alien named Zip.
60) Survival
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Star Quest series continues with Survival. A "human team sent to scout a few hundred light years in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. The sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons, and have survived earlier "death waves," gamma ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm...
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