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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...
3) 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...
4) 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,...
5) Golden son
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, is battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within.
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
Chaos walking volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
10) The strange
Author
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the Silence comes, stopping all communication and shipments from Earth to its colonies on Mars, fourteen-year-old Annabelle Crisp, in 1931, New Galveston, Mars, sets off through the wastelands of the Martian desert to exact revenge on the man responsible for destroying her family.
11) Dragonseye
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 17
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Bean moves with three of his children into a derelict space colony ship where they hope for a cure to engineered genes that give them high intelligence and short lives, a situation that is complicated when space-time distortions cause them to be forgotten by humanity.
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 8
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1983.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 15
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
15) Dragon's fire
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 25
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 13
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 12
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
20) The last colony
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.
That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game - as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a...
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