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61) The long Mars
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U. S. Edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The third novel in Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter's "Long Earth" series, which Io9 calls "a brilliant science fiction collaboration.""--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a natural disaster predicted by God's Gardeners leader Adam One obliterates most human life, two survivors trapped inside respective establishments that metaphorically represent paradise and hell wonder if any of their loved ones have survived, while the outside world is overcome by gene-spliced life forms.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"With the world consumed by a devastating plague, what was once a band of desperate survivors bobbing on the Atlantic ocean has now become Wolf Squadron, the only hope for the salvation of the human race. Banding together the remains of the US Navy, Wolf Squadron, and its leader Steve Smith, plans to retake the mainland from the infected, starting with North America. The next step: produce a vaccine. But to do that, forces led by Smith's terrifyingly...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"By the fall of 2007, one well-timed leak revealing that the U.S. government might have engaged in first contact has sent the country into turmoil, and it is all Cora Sabino can do to avoid the whole mess. The force driving this controversy is Cora's whistleblower father, and even though she hasn't spoken to him in years, his celebrity has caught the attention of the press, the Internet, the paparazzi, and the government-and redirected it to her....
Author
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Three Rooms Press edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the future, after a human offense against the natives of Hydros, the human population of the island of Sorve are ordered to leave. Forbidden on all other islands, in a flotilla of ships they seek the semi-mythical island of the Face of the Waters. During their journey they are forced to learn more about themselves, leading to questions about both religion and the purpose of humanity, all while facing danger from outside and within"--Page...
66) Dead space
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic asteroid mine in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day. Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted, and stranded far from home, she was forced to take a dead-end security job with a powerful mining company in the asteroid belt. Now she spends her days investigating petty crimes to help her employer...
67) Mockingjay
Author
Series
The Hunger Games volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. A revolution is unfolding, and it is up to Katniss to accept responsibility for countless lives and to change the course of the future of Panem.
68) Extras
Author
Series
Uglies volume 4
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but she knows that would propel her into a celebrity status she's not prepared for.
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
xxx, 382 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andrew Wiggin, itinerant speaker for the dead, is called to aid in the investigation of two deaths when a race of sapient beings is discovered on the planet Lusitania.
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
582 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Dark Ride collects John Kessel's best short fiction, beginning with 1981's "Not Responsible! Park and Lock It!" and ending with 2021's "The Dark Ride." The stories range from flash pieces to novellas, from comedy to existential horror, from far future SF to Kafkaesque fantasy, including 40,000 words of never-before-collected fiction and extensive author's notes. All his best are here, among them Nebula Award winners "Another Orphan" and "Pride...
71) Paradise-1
Author
Series
Red space volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
681 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Paradise-1. Earth's first deep space colony. For thousands of people, it was an opportunity for a new life. Until it went dark. No communication has been received from the colony for months. And it falls to Firewatch inspector Alexandra Petrova and the crew of the Artemis to investigate. What they find is more horrifying than anything they could have imagined"--
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive collection of the best in science fiction stories between 1929 and 1964. This book contains twenty-six of the greatest science fiction stories ever written. They represent the considered verdict of the Science Fiction Writers of America, those who have shaped the genre and who know, more intimately than anyone else, what the criteria for excellence in the field should be. The authors chosen for the Science Fiction Hall Fame are the...
73) The power of Six
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a Spanish convent, seventeen-year-old Marina longs to join forces with her fellow Loriens to prepare for battle with the Mogadorians who destroyed their home planet, while in the United States, John, Six, and Sam elude authorities who think John is a terrorist.
75) Leech
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"MEET THE CURE FOR THE HUMAN DISEASE "A wonderful new entry to Gothic science fiction, impeccably clever and atmospheric. Think Wuthering Heights... with worms!" -Tamsyn Muir A surreal and horrifying debut, Leech defies our understanding of identity, heredity, and bodily autonomy. In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The doctor's replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track...
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.
Author
Series
The Farian War volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
465 p.
Language
English
Description
The first volume of an epic space opera trilogy featuring the gunrunner empress Hail Bristol, who must navigate alien politics and deadly plots to prevent an interspecies war.
Hail Bristol: former runaway princeess, interplanetary gunrunner, Empress of Indrana.
When the Empire's closest ally asks her to intervene in a galactic military crisis, she embarks on the highest stakes diplomatic mission Indrana has ever faced.
Caught between two powerful...
78) Executive intent
Author
Series
Lieutenant General Patrick McLanahan volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the world's superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earth's orbit.
79) The spare man
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare Man. Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world,is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She's traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named...
80) A darkling plain
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Physical Desc
532 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
While dealing with people from their past and treachery from unexpected sources, Tom, Hester, and Wren return to save the world.