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1) Saturn run
Author
Language
English
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Description
"An extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly wit, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now, in collaboration with Ctein, he proves it all once more, in a...
4) Manxome foe
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Alliance space ship Vorpal Blade goes back into action when news arrives that a gate colony has fallen to an unidentified alien invasion, heading out to find out what happened to the colony, rescue survivors, and uncover the attackers' identity.
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
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Disgraced after being expelled from the military academy, Kylara Vatta goes home to face her family. Given one last chance to redeem herself, she is sent on a mission to take an old Vatta Transport ship to the scrap yard. However, this mundane assignment turns into the mission from hell.
Author
Series
Vatta's war volume 1
Publisher
GraphicAudio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Disgraced after being expelled from the military academy, Kylara Vatta goes home to face her family. Given one last chance to redeem herself, she is sent on a mission to take an old Vatta Transport ship to the scrap yard. However, this mundane assignment turns into the mission from hell.
Author
Publisher
Ace Hardcover
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people--and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The war may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The long awaited sequel to master storyteller Stephen Coonts's Saucer brings back the characters, action, and exhilaration that made the original a smash. After discovering the secrets of a 140,000-year-old spacecraft in Saucer, Rip Cantrell and beautiful test pilot Charley Pine think their days of high-flying extraterrestrial adventure are over. But when Pine takes up flying spaceplanes to the moon for the French lunar base project, she discovers...
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Two years have passed since the defeat of Darth Caedus, the former Jacen Solo. For a grieving Han and Leia, the shadow of their son's tragic downfall still looms large. But Jacen's own bright and loving daughter, Allana, offers a ray of hope for the future as she thrives in her grandparents' care. The eager, inquisitive and Force-strong girl makes a curious discovery aboard her grandfather's beloved spacecraft--the much-overhauled but ever-dependable...
13) Avalon
Author
Series
Avalon (Mindee Arnett) volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jeth Seagrave, the leader of a ragtag team of teenage mercenaries, skirts the line between honor and the law in an attempt to win freedom for his sister and himself in the form of their parents' old spaceship, Avalon.
14) Pretender
Author
Series
Third Foreigner volume 2
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Exhausted from a two-year rescue mission to a distant sector of space, and with resources strained by four thousand extra mouths to feed, the crew of the starship Phoenix yearns for the luxuries of home. But when the ship makes the final jump into atevi space, they learn the worst: supplies to their home station have been cut off; civil war has broken out on the atevi mainland; the powerful Western Association has been overthrown; and Tabini-aiji...
15) Polaris
Author
Series
Avalon (Mindee Arnett) volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Jeth Seagrave and his crew of mercenaries are pulled into one last high-stakes mission"--
16) Conspirator
Author
Series
Foreigner volume 10
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Cajeiri, the young son of the powerful leader of the Western Association, has become a target for forces bent on destroying his father's rule. For Cajeiri is the first "ateva" youth to have lived in a human environment and the first of his people to ever truly understand the so similar--yet so dangerously different--aliens who share his home planet and threaten the hidebound customs of his race.
17) Polaris
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Sixty years after the disappearance of the passengers and crew of the luxury space yacht Polaris, found empty and adrift in space, Alex Benedict sets out to uncover the truth about the Polaris and to reveal the fate of its passengers.
18) Life signs
Author
Series
Firefly novels volume 5
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of a terminal illness. It is Kiehl's Myeloma, a form of cancer that's supposedly incurable, and Inara has very little time left." -- amazon.com
Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of a terminal illness. It is Kiehl's Myeloma, a form of cancer that's supposedly...
19) Homebound
Author
Series
Icarus chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Leo Fender is no stranger to catastrophe, whether it's the intergalactic war that took his mother's life or the ongoing fight for his own. He's seen his planet plundered, his ship attacked, his father kidnapped, and his brother go missing, and found himself stranded on a ship with a bunch of mercenary space pirates. Still, nothing could have prepared him for the moment he and the crew tried to save his father and discovered a dark plot that could...
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