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1) Survival
Author
Series
Star quest trilogy volume Book 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a human team is sent to scout a few hundred light-years in front of the death wave, it encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons and have survived earlier 'death waves,' gamma-ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in...
2) Odd girl out
Author
Series
Quadrail volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When former government agent Frank Compton steps back into his apartment after his tangle with the Modhri-a coral-like group mind-he finds a young woman with his gun in her hands waiting for him. Her little sister's life is in danger and Compton is the only one who can help. After retrieving his gun and kicking her out, he finds himself falsely accused of her murder. With a little help, he posts bail, gets a new identity, and begins the search for...
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
Author
Series
The Lady astronaut novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Fated Sky looks forward to 1961, when mankind is well-established on the moon and looking forward to its next step: journeying to, and eventually colonizing, Mars. Of course the noted Lady Astronaut Elma York would like to go, but there's a lot riding on whoever the International Aerospace Coalition decides to send on this historic--but potentially very dangerous--mission? Could Elma really leave behind her husband and the chance to start a family...
Author
Series
The expanse volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
582 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
Author
Series
The expanse volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Trade Paperback Edition
Physical Desc
563 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sins of the past are returning to exact...
Author
Series
Lady Astronaut novels volume 03
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
542 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Astronauts Elma York, Nicole Wargin and Myrtle Lindholm continue to forge new paths for women astronauts as they work to achieve the International Aerospace Coalition's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes uninhabitable."--
Author
Series
Wayfarers volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of years ago, the last humans on Earth boarded the Exodus Fleet in search of a new home among the stars. After centuries spent wandering empty space, their descendants were eventually accepted by the well-established species that govern the Milky Way. But that was long ago. Today, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, the birthplace of many, yet a place few outsiders have ever visited. While the Exodans take great pride in their original community...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
321 p.
Language
English
Description
"When the USS Titan is drawn into a catastrophic incident on the Romulan-Federation border, Captain William Riker, his family, and his crew find themselves caught between the shocking secrets of an enigmatic alien species and the deadly agenda of a ruthless Tal Shiar operative. Forced into a wary alliance with a Romulan starship commander, Riker and the Titan crew must uncover the truth to stop a devastating attack--but one wrong move could plunge...
Author
Series
Wayfarers volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past. And nothing could be further from what she's known than the crew of the Wayfarer."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousand sleeping souls to a new home among the stars. But when first mate Michelle Campion rouses, she discovers some of the sleepers will never wake. Answering Campion's distress call, investigator Rasheed Fin is tasked with finding out who is responsible for these deaths. Soon a sinister mystery unfolds aboard the gigantic vessel, one that will have repercussions...
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
158 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks ...
Author
Series
Wayfarers volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
c2016
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who's determined to help her learn and grow. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together....
14) Ancestral night
Author
Series
White Space volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
502 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Bear won the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer in 2005 and has since published 15 novels and numerous short stories. She writes in both the SF and fantasy genres and has won critical acclaim in both. She has won the Hugo award more than once. She lives in Massachusetts. Visit her on Twitter @matociquala"--
"Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is...
Author
Publisher
Redhook
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In fifty years, Myrra will be free. Until then, she's a contract worker. Ever since she was five, her life and labor have belonged to the highest bidder on her contract--butchers, laundries, and now the powerful, secretive Carlyles. But when one night finds the Carlyles dead, Myrra is suddenly free a lot sooner than she anticipated--and at a cost she never could have imagined. Burdened with the Carlyles' orphaned daughter and the terrible secret...
Author
Series
Interdependency volume 1
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war--and, for the...
Author
Series
Stars and bones volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks--each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities. When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her. What she discovers on Candidate-623 is both terrifying and deadly....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
The second Death Star is destroyed. The Galactic Empire is in chaos. And while the Rebel Alliance engages the fractured forces of the Empire, a lone Rebel scout uncovers a secret Imperial meeting. "Aftermath" will showcase the state of the galaxy right after Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Print run 100,000.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
20) Implacable
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 351 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary fears the greatest threat to humanity may be itself in this gripping continuation of the New York Times bestselling series. As far from explored space as any human has ever been, Geary and the Alliance fleet are on their own, protecting a diplomatic mission in territory belonging to an alien species with still unknown motives. His already complex and dangerous mission is further imperiled by deadly challenges from...