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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
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
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...
4) 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...
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...
6) 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,...
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...
Author
Series
Michigan chillers volume 4
Publisher
Audiocraft
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
On the day after a large meteor is sighted over Alpena, Michigan, Mark and his friend Meghan discover a spaceship in the forest and soon come face-to-face with aliens who want to take over the world.
11) Metal swarm
Author
Series
Saga of seven suns volume 6
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
12) Scattered suns
Author
Series
Saga of seven suns volume 4
Publisher
Aspect
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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
Star Wars novels. Outbound flight volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballentine Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
18) Dragonseye
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 17
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
19) Dragonsblood
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 24
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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