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Author
Series
Kris Longknife volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Kris Longknife has been given her first independent command in the very remote system of Chance, an assignment that's as much exile as promotion, but she's not on the job long when she captures pirates hiding the location of an uncharted and unpopulated planet of miraculous technology. Original.
82) In fire forged
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
This collection of stories includes an all-new Honor Harrington adventure, set in her younger years, along with stories by Jane Lindskold and Timothy Zahn.
84) Robot dreams
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains a collection of short stories written by Isaac Asimov between 1940 through the 1980s, that explore the themes of science fiction, such as robotics, space travel, and aliens.
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations....
86) The Bacta War
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Tyrant Ysanne Isard has seized control of Thyferra, intending to use its supply of medicinal bacta for a decidedly unhealthy purpose--to destabilize and annihilate the New Republic. Undermanned and without Alliance support, Rogue Squadron faces an overwhelmingly superior force--and nearly impossible task: to oppose Isard's plans, defeat her Star Destroyer fleet, and free Thyferra from the grip of a madman in a winner-take-all battle.
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"NEW STORIES AND ESSAYS FROM TOP AUTHORS AND EXPERT SCIENTISTS. Explorations of how interstellar travel may affect humanity by best-selling authors and scientists. The stars will change us. STELLARIS: PEOPLE OF THE STARS is a collection of original science fiction stories and nonfiction essays speculating about humanity's far-term expansion into the universe beyond the limits of our solar system--with an emphasis on the changes humans will undergo...
89) The Swarm
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China...
90) Fantastic hope
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of sixteen sci-fi and fantasy stories edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton and debut author William McCaskey. A girl who will go to any lengths to save her newborn brother. A woman who is stuck in a continuous loop, reliving her life after being murdered over and over again by the same man. Martyrs who make the ultimate sacrifice for humanity. In this anthology, sixteen authors have weaved together brand-new...
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The hottest military science fiction series of all time continues. The mission: to boldly explore David Weber's Honorverse; to deliver all the action, courage, derring-do, and pulse-pounding excitement of space naval adventure with tales set in a world touched by the greatness of one epic heroine-Honor Harrington. New Honorverse tales by Timothy Zahn & Thomas Pope, Jane Lindskold, the Honorverse Czech translator Jan Kotouč, and Joelle Presby. Plus...
Series
Publisher
Flame Tree Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Dystopia, apocalypse, gene-splicing, cloning and colonization are explored here by new authors and combined with proto-sci-fi and speculative writing of an older tradition (by W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin R. Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Pauline Hopkins and Edward Johnson) whose first-hand experience of slavery and denial created their living dystopia.
Series
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In a future world dominated by the technological, people will still be entangled in relationships - romances, friendships, and families. This volume in the Twelve Tomorrow's series considers the effects that scientific and technological discoveries will have on the emotional bonds that hold us together. The strange new worlds in these stories feature AI family therapy, floating fungitecutre, and a futuristic love potion. A co-op of mothers attempts...
95) Lear's daughters
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1463
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Author
Series
Kris Longknife volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Publ
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Kris Longknife is a daughter of privilege, born to money and power. Her father is the Prime Minister of her home planet. Her mother the consummate politician's wife. She's been raised only to be beautiful and marry well. But the heritage of the military Longknifes courses through Kris's blood-and, against her parents' objections, she enlists in the marines.
97) Infinity's prism
Series
Star trek. Myriad universes volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Publisher
Firebird
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
The Firebird anthology lives up to the quality of the first two volumes, with eighteen short stories and one novella that cover the range of science fiction, fantasy, and entirely believable but odd realistic fiction.
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide.
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw and ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one fo the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it...or perhaps just want to use it for personal gain. Within these stories,...
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