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1) Cibola burn
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Expanse volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule. But Holden and his crew must also contend with the...
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Murderbot diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"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....
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"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity...
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"Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before even The Phantom Menace . . . Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in The High Republic. It is a golden age. Intrepid hyperspace scouts expand the reach of the Republic to the furthest stars, worlds flourish under the benevolent leadership of the Senate, and peace reigns, enforced by the wisdom and strength of the renowned order of Force users known as the Jedi.
"The lead book in an exciting cross-publishing...
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RCN series volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Lt. Daniel Leary commands the Princess Cecile; Signals Officer Adele Mundy has the spy apparatus and skill to crack any database. All they lack are enemies, and fate is about to supply those in abundance!"--
9) Space opera
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English
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"Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization. Something to cheer up everyone who was left. Something to celebrate having escaped total annihilation by the skin of one's teeth, if indeed one has skin. Or teeth. Something to...
10) Claws that catch
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Series
Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 4
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In the fourth Looking Glass novel, the "Vorpal Blade" is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the black box that drives humanity's only space ship. Any remnant technology would be nice, but what the "Vorpal Blade" finds is much more than its crew had bargained for.
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Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After harsh conditions on Earth threaten humanity's survival, Cooper, a farmer who is also a former NASA test pilot, leads a group of explorers on a mission to find an inhabitable planet in a distant galaxy, testing the limitations of space travel as they cross a wormhole.
13) Vulcan's forge
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Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Decades ago, as a teenager, Spock had teamed up with David Rabin, the young son of a Starfleet captain, to fight an attempted coup on Vulcan that would have turned the planet's people away from the path of logic. Now a Starfleet officer, Captain David Rabin has been assigned to a harsh desert world much like Vulcan, where the Federation is determined to protect the lives of the inhabitants. But Rabin's efforts are being sabotaged and he has asked...
14) Babylon's ashes
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Series
Expanse volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The sixth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series from Syfy! A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien...
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Barque cats volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
A Tale of Barque Cats. This is the first book of two set in an exciting new world from the award-winning author of Changelings and Maelstrom. It is thrilling science fiction that features telepathic cats which are invaluable to the spacefarers who own them - sniffing out oxygen leaks and spotting other problems. But a corrupt government is about to impound or possibly destruct all animals across the galaxy.
Highly prized space-traveling Barque Cat...
16) Sixteenth watch
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Publisher
Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Coast Guard must prevent the first lunar war in history. A lifelong Search-and-Rescuewoman, Coast Guard Captain Jane Oliver is ready for a peaceful retirement. But when tragedy strikes, Oliver loses her husband and her plans for the future, and finds herself thrust into a role sheâs not prepared for. Suddenly at the helm of the Coast Guardâs elite SAR-1 lunar unit, Oliver is the only woman who can prevent the first lunar war in history, a conflict...
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Geronimo Stilton. Spacemice volume 12
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discovering a planet that bafflingly appears and disappears, Spacemouse Geronimo Siltonix lands his MouseStar 1 ship to investigate and encounters a race of mysterious, secret-keeping aliens.
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Del Rey
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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When the Imperial prison barge Purge—temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, Rebels, scoundrels, and thieves—breaks down in a distant part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back—bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours, nearly...
19) Vagabonds
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Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this spellbinding novel from Hugo Award-winning author Hao Jingfang. This genre-bending novel is set on Earth in the wake of a second civil war...not between two factions in one nation, but...
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Geronimo Stilton. Spacemice volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When Space mouse Geronimo Stiltonix helps an alien spacecraft get back to its home planet, their queen becomes enchanted by Geronimo, and tries to force him to marry her and stay on the planet Flurkon forever.
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