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1) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A collection of six tales set during the galaxy far, far away featuring the Jedi Knights of the High Republic, including an exclusive story printed here for the first time! In addition to the stories, this collection also includes behind the scenes interviews and a guide to the second phase of The High Republic stories.
Author
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Galactic Republic is in chaos following the Nihil's shocking destruction of the gleaming space station Starlight Beacon. Capitalizing on their victory, the Nihil have erected a barrier called the Stormwall around a section of Republic space and claimed it for themselves. Within this Occlusion Zone, people live at the mercy of the Nihil-and the Nihil are not known for mercy.
Author
Series
Ambit's run volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union's labor's leverage. Between them the Guild tries to keep everyone's hands above the table. It ain't easy. Branded a Guild deserter, Jal "accidentally" lands a ride on a Guild ship. Helmed by an AI, with a ship's engineer/medic who doesn't see much of a difference between the two jobs, and a "don't make me shoot you" XO, the Guild crew of the Ambit is...
Author
Series
Icarus saga volume 2
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they quietly work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye. Roarke and Selene...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fearing a violent confrontation between Earthmen and Spacers, Detective Baley and his new partner, a robot made in the image of the victim, investigate the murder of a Spacetown scientist.
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and...
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1958
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"This debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family-and a mystery that spans the stars"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
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,...
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