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Author
Series
Chilling effect volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra find themselves once again on the fringe of populated space--and at the center of a raging covert war. When Eva's sister asks for help locating a missing scientist, promises of a big paycheck and a noble cause convince Eva to take the job despite lingering trust issues. With reluctant assistance from her estranged mother, Eva and her crew follow the missing scientist's trail across the universe,...
22) Dauntless
Author
Series
Lost fleet volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The Alliance has been fighting the Syndic for a century-and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is Captain John "Black Jack" Geary-a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized beyond belief. Now, he must live up to his own legend.
23) Fearless
Author
Series
Lost fleet volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
To ward off an attack by the Syndics, Geary orders the fleet to the Sancere system where they engage in combat, which takes its toll on the officers and crew of the Alliance, prompting a mutiny that divides them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people--and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The war may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens...
25) Keith's story
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Details Keith's adventures from his days as a pilot at Galaxy Garrison to how he became a Paladin of Voltron andthe truth behind his past.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Canada, Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Fueled with determination and a passion for science, a bright young girl named Fei Fei builds a rocket ship to the moon to prove the existence of a legendary Moon Goddess. There she ends up on the adventure of a lifetime and discovers a whimsical land of fantastical creatures. Directed by animation legend Glen Keane, and produced by Gennie Rim and Peilin Chou, Over the Moon is an exhilarating musical adventure about moving forward, embracing the...
Author
Series
Sorrow Falls volume 1
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Three years after a spaceship landed in Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts, a government operative comes to investigate and finds that Annie Collins, sixteen, might have the answers he seeks.
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic, standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra. When Unit Four -- a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere -- is activated for the first time, it's in crisis mode. Aliens are...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Princess Leonie Kolburg, aged nineteen and heir to a faded European spaceship, enters the engagement season hoping only to save her family from financial ruin, but is soon falling for her first, rejected love.
32) Attraction
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Moscow finds itself on the brink of destruction after a mysterious spaceship crash-lands in the center of the city. While the government seeks to find out what the ship₂s passengers want and how to protect the local population, the rest of the residents break into conflicting factions. When a young woman finds herself tom between her seemingly normal life and the alluring promise offered by one of the all-too-human extraterrestrials, the fate of...
33) Chaos vector
Author
Series
The Protectorate volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in the second book in this epic space opera by award-winning author Megan O'Keefe. Sanda and Tomas are fleeing for their lives after letting the most dangerous smartship in the universe run free. Now, unsure of who to trust, Sanda knows only one thing for certain - to be able to save herself from becoming a pawn of greater powers, she needs to discover the secret of the coordinates...
34) I am a pilot
Author
Series
Publisher
Golden Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Meet Hans Solo and other Star Wars pilots.
36) Alliance rising
Author
Series
Foreigner universe. Sixth foreigner sequence volume 1
DAW book collectors volume no. 1811
Hinder stars volume 1
DAW book collectors volume no. 1811
Hinder stars volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For years, the stations of the Hinder Stars, those old stations closest to Sol, have lagged behind the great megastations of the Beyond, like Pell and Cyteen. But new opportunities and fears arise when Alpha station receives news of an incoming ship with no identification. The denizens of Alpha wait anxiously for news about the outsiders, each with their own suspicions about the ship and its origins. Ross and Fallon, crew members of the Galway, believe...
37) Seven devils
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Eris faked her death, she thought she had left her old life as the heir to the galaxy's most ruthless empire behind. But her recruitment by the Novantaen Resistance, an organization opposed to the empire's voracious expansion, throws her right back into the fray. Eris has been assigned a new mission: to infiltrate a spaceship ferrying deadly cargo and return the intelligence gathered to the Resistance. But her partner for the mission, mechanic...
38) Supernova
Author
Series
(Caitlin A.).Lightless trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"C. A. Higgins's acclaimed novel Lightless fused suspenseful storytelling, high-caliber scientific speculation, and richly developed characters into a stunning science fiction epic. Now the dazzling Supernova heightens the thrills and deepens the haunting exploration of technology and humanity--and the consequences that await when the two intersect. Once Ananke was an experimental military spacecraft. But a rogue computer virus transformed it--her--into...
39) Braking Day
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume No. 1914
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
On a generation ship bound for a distant star, one engineer-in-training must discover the secrets at the heart of the voyage in this new sci-fi novel. It's been over a century since three generation ships escaped an Earth dominated by artificial intelligence in pursuit of a life on a distant planet orbiting Tau Ceti. Now, it's nearly Braking Day, when the ships will begin their long-awaited descent to their new home. Born on the lower decks of the...
40) Sheep blast off!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Upon finding a spaceship, sheep climb aboard and bumble around until they blast off into orbit.
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