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Author
Series
Imperial Radch volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
Author
Series
My teacher is an alien volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After Susan sees Mr. Smith the substitute teacher peel off his face, she knows he's an alien and only Peter believes her. Together they work to save the class from Mr. Smith's horrible plans.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive -- and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though,...
Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence missions and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled from Earth, and the starships that knit them together. Or so it's believed, until Dr. Kimberly Brandywine sets out to find what happened to her clone-sister Emily, who, after the final, unsuccessful manned SETI expedition, disappeared along with the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Author and professional futurist Karl Schroeder, whose novels Ventus and Permanence have established him as a groundbreaking visionary in hard science fiction, extends his imagination into Larry Niven territory, returning to the same distant future in which Ventus was set, but employing a broader canvas, to tell the story of Teven Coronal, a ringworld with a huge multiplicity of human civilizations.
Brilliant but troubled Livia Kodaly is Teven's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap offworld before he pays the ultimate price.
8) Dark as day
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Set in the universe as Sheffield's previous novel Cold As Ice, Dark As Day is a hard science fiction novel set 30 years after the Great War, and interplanetary war that nearly destroyed the entire human race, and left horrifyingly dangerous weapons caches to threaten human survival.
The Solar System is finally recovering from the Great War, a war that devastated the planets and nearly wiped out the human race, and the population of the outer moons,...
9) Red moon
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California"--
"It is twenty-five years...
10) Acorna's quest
Author
Series
Acorna series volume 2
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
'I must find my own kind!' Found as an infant drifting in space, Acorna, the Unicorn Girl, has become a young woman. She still has her tiny, translucent horn, and her 'funny' feet and hands. And, she still has her miraculous ability to make plants grow and heal human sickness. But Acorna has strange dreams of a gentle folk who mind-speak by touching horns. With her 'Uncle' Calum, one of the three grizzled asteroid prospectors who rescued, protected,...
11) Revelation space
Author
Series
Revelation space universe volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes...
12) Star dragon
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The SS Cygni probe sent back hours of video, captured by the Biolathe AI, but only a few minutes mattered-the four minutes that showed a creature made of fire, living, moving, and dancing in the plasma fire of the double star's accretion disk. A dragon made of star stuff, so alien that only a human expedition to observe and perhaps capture it, and could truly understand them.
It's a perilous journey into the future, however, for SS Cygni is 245 light-...
13) Chasm City
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Named one of the best novels of the year by both Locus and Science Fiction Chronicle, Alastair Reynolds's debut Revelation Space redefined the space opera. With Chasm City, Reynolds invites you to reenter the bizarre universe of his imagination as he redefines Hell...The once-utopian Chasm City-a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet-has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic...
14) Anathem
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
Author
Series
Last of the Jedi volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ferus Olin is trying to save the surviving Jedi, but his old rival Anakin Skywalker stands in his way.
Author
Series
Worldwar saga. Colonization series volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In the extraordinary Worldwar tetralogy, set against the backdrop of World War II, Harry Turtledove, whom Publishers Weekly has called the "Hugo-winning master of alternate SF," wove an explosive saga of world powers locked in conflict against an enemy from the stars. Now he expands his magnificent epic into the volatile 1960s, when the space race is in its infancy and humanity must face its greatest challenge: alien colonization of planet Earth.Yet...
17) The water planet
Author
Series
AstroNuts volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On their second mission to find another habitable planet, the four mutant animals, LaserShark, AstroWolf, SmartHawk, and StinkBug, splash land on the Water Planet, run by some suspiciously friendly clams, who are very eager to swap planets--and if the AstroNuts can stop arguing among themselves they may find out why before it is too late.
18) Forge of heaven
Author
Series
Gene Wars volume 2
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
From C.J. Cherryh, one of science fiction′s greatest writers and a 3-time Hugo Award "Best Novel" winner, comes the exciting and long-awaited follow-up to Hammerfall, the second novel of the Gene Wars. In the second volume of "The Gene Wars," C. J. Cherryh further explores the captivating new universe where two interstellar empires, scarred by nanotechnology weaponry, hover in an uneasy detente. Perched at the edge of the galaxy, tiny Concord Station...
19) Judas unchained
Author
Series
Commonwealth saga volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Peter F. Hamilton's superbly imagined, cunningly plotted interstellar adventures are conceived on a staggeringly epic scale and filled with fully realized human and alien characters as complex as they are engaging. No mere world builder, Hamilton creates entire universes-and he does so with irresistible flair and intelligence. His previous novel, the acclaimed Pandora's Star, introduced the Intersolar Commonwealth, a star-spanning civilization of...
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