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Author
Series
Frontlines (Marko Kloos) volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you're restricted to two thousand calories of badly flavored soy every day: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When Jakub Procha is sent into space to examine a cosmic dust cloud covering Venus, it may be a solo suicide mission. Dreaming of becoming a national hero and desperate to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer, he leaves his beloved wife behind and launches into the galaxy. But things aboard spaceship JanHus1 quickly turn weird, and, to make matters worse, he soon learns that his wife has disappeared without a trace back on Earth. As...
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...
Author
Series
Bowl of heaven volume 1
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by the discovery of an immense bowl-shaped structure in space that leads to hostile alien encounters and profound revelations about humanity's place in the universe.
Author
Publisher
Vydavnyt︠s︡tvo Staroho Leva
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
"Malenʹka Veronichka ne vmii︠e︡ chkhaty tykho. Cherez sviĭ holosnyĭ apchykh vona shcho ne denʹ potrapli︠a︡i︠e︡ v novi kurĭozni pryhody: to rukh usii︠e︡ï vulyt︠s︡i zupynytʹ, to urok u shkoli zirve. Pid chas pokhodu z batʹkamy u zoopark ïĭ spadai︠e︡ na dumku dotepna zabava: a shcho, i︠a︡k poloskotaty slonovi p'i︠a︡tky? Tak moz︠h︡na i v kosmos zaletity! Ale i︠a︡k povernutysi︠a︡ nazad na Zemli︠u︡...
7) Lightless
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A female engineer, Althea, fights for her life when her small spacecraft is invaded by two mysterious terrorists on a dark mission, one of whom is a revolutionary harboring deep secrets.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Captain Ed Mercer thrusts into space aboard the explorer ship the USS Orville. Joined by his first office ex-wife and intergalactic crew, he grapples with everything from a planet-absorbing space anomaly to an overly amorous, gelatinous engineer.
Series
Publisher
Big Idea
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In a distant corner of the galaxy, Luntar the Looter is menacing passing ships and stealing their power sources. When a dark shadow falls on the sunny, beach-filled planet of Tootanny, the USS Applepies fleet is deployed to put a stop to this space pirate.
11) Portal
Author
Series
Boundary novels volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Madeline Fathom and the stranded members of the Odin vessel struggle to survive the lethal elements of Europa while attempting to repair an escape shuttle, an effort that is further complicated by the discovery of a formidable trap.
13) The fountain
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Past, present, future. Through time and space, one man embarks on a bold 1,000-year odyssey to defeat humankind's most indomitable foe: Death. Tom is a man who is devoted to one woman, Izzi, and becomes determined to protect her from forces that threaten her existence. His quest leads him to 16th century Europe and America where Tomas is a Spanish explorer searching for Incan magic; to the present day where Tom is a doctor...
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After a year of close shaves, Doctor Chelli Aphra is taking it easy and lying low. Probably herding banthas or something. She's smart like that, right? No, not really. Shes back to busting into alien temples to steal horrifying weapons for huge profit. She just can't stop herself. But plenty of other people could. Powerful factions are watching closely - all calculating whether Aphra's more useful alive...or dead. And now, the incorrigible and sticky-fingered...
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follow Poe, Rey, Finn, Leia and all your favorite heroes and explore the unseen events of Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens, Episode VIII The Last Jedi and for the first time beyond! Revisit the biggest battles of the films through the eyes of Commander Dameron and the expert pilots of Black Squadron! And finally discover what Snap Wexley, Jessika Pava and the rest of the crew were up to during The Last Jedi fighting for the very survival...
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The not so good Doc is being blackmailed by evil droid mastermind Triple-Zero to run missions for his underground crime syndicate-- but that doesn't mean she can't cause trouble and have fun along the way! Her latest assignment? Infiltrating a secret Rebellion training center run by General Hera Syndulla. Aphra is used to being in way over her head, but this time she's not alone! Who else is caught up in her latest misadventure? Let's hope they're...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Doctor travels without a companion facing cybermen in nineteenth-century London, saving a busload of Londoners from the deadly Swarm, protecting Earth from mysterious water organisms on Mars, and enduring a final showdown with the Master and the returning Time Lords before his next regeneration.
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Stuck in a massive alien metropolis, Aphra has ten hours to cross the hostile megacity before the bomb implanted in her throat explodes. And don't forget the pack of bounty hunters and crazed cops that are on her tail. No big deal, right? But there's one more wrinkle: Aphra can't stray more than a few paces from her companion without activating the bomb's proximity alert and blowing both of them up. And that companion is Triple-Zero, a sadistic murderous...
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