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Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Cargo ship captain Eva Innocente and her crew on the La Sirena Negra try to figure out why hundreds of monoliths have appeared in space broadcasting the same looped message to surrender or die.
Author
Series
Central Corps (Elizabeth Bonesteel) volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the stars, a young officer and her lover are plunged into a murder mystery and a deadly conspiracy in this first entry in a stellar military science-fiction series in the tradition of Lois McMaster Bujold. When her crewmate, Danny, is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps chief engineer, Commander Elena Shaw, is shocked to learn the main suspect is her lover, Treiko Zajec. She knows Trey is innocent--he was with her when Danny...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade named Ganymede travels to the past to bring Galileo forward in an attempt to alter history and ensure the ascendancy of science over religion. Yet between his brief and jarring visitations to this future, Galileo must struggle against the ignorance and superstition of his own time.
Author
Series
Lazarus men agenda volume 1
Publisher
Warfighter Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Gerald LaPlant's life is thrown into chaos after he accidentally witnesses a murder. He is chased across the stars by a powerful man who wants the item he has and a shadow organization for what he knows. Time is running out."-- provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 8
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When summer arrives on Nebulon, Zack discovers that his best friend, Drake, is afraid to learn to swim and decides to teach him before they go on a trip to water-covered planet Araxie.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On the faraway plant 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.
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 6
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a cosmic storm hits, stranding the Nelsons on their new home planet, Nebulon, Zack's hopes of a white Christmas in Vermont are dashed, but Nebulon provides a surprising alternative.
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 9
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Zack is happy to test a new android his father helped develop for Nebulonics before she goes into production, but her ability to learn causes problems when she develops a crush on Zack after watching a romantic movie.
11) The last shadow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe-the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it were allowed to escape from Lusitania. One planet. Three sapient species living peacefully together. And one deadly virus that could wipe out...
12) Alone out here
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the president's daughter--eighteen-year-old Leigh Chen--ends up on the only ship escaping a dying earth, she and a group of teenagers must grapple with the challenges of what it will take to survive as the last remnants of humanity.
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Zack and Drake venture to Gluco, the candy planet, for some Easter fun but while competing in such activities as an egg toss and a three-legged race, Zack is so determined to come in first that he considers cheating to win.
14) Eyes of the void
Author
Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Facing impending extinction, an Intermediary decides to help the Human Colonies stop the Architects who are back consuming entire planets after eighty years of a fragile peace, in the second novel of the series, following Shards of Earth.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"A picture book that can be read front-to-back or back-to-front. Start from one end and journey from outer space down to the sea; start from the other end and journey from deep in the sea out to a distant planet"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Delta-V volume 2
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"--
17) The undefeated
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
She was a warrior of words. As a journalist she exposed corruption across the Interstellar Commonwealth, shifting public opinion and destroying careers in the process. Long-since retired, she travels back to the planet of her childhood, partly through a sense of nostalgia, partly to avoid running from humanity's newest--and self-created--enemy, the jenjer. Because the enemy is coming, and nothing can stand in its way.
18) Binti
Author
Series
Binti volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
Author
Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time, this third and final novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy depicts humanity on the brink of extinction--and reveals how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. Lords of Uncreation is the final high-octane installment in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture space opera trilogy.
20) Binti: home
Author
Series
Binti volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders. But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace. After generations...
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