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1) Exultant
Author
Series
Destiny's children volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
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Description
“Baxter has an uncanny gift for mixing a punchy, cyberpunk cynicism with his resolutely hard SF story base. . . . [Exultant] rivals Asimov in its boundless vision for the future evolution of humanity.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
For more than twenty thousand years, humans have been at war with the alien race of Xeelee. Faced with certain death, a young pilot, Pirius, disobeys orders and travels into...
For more than twenty thousand years, humans have been at war with the alien race of Xeelee. Faced with certain death, a young pilot, Pirius, disobeys orders and travels into...
2) Ark
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the year 2030. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light years away gives those who remain alive hope. Only a few will be able to make the journey-Holle Groundwater is one of the candidates. If she makes the cut, she will live. If not, she will be left to face a watery death...
3) Flood
Author
Series
Flood (Stephen Baxter) volume 1
Language
English
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Four hostages are finally released, but they face a world suddenly inundated as vast amounts of water is released from the earth's mantle. As the world's cities and countries disappear under the rising seas, humanity faces unimaginable global disaster.
Author
Series
Manifold trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
5) Proxima
Author
Series
Proxima novels volume 1
Publisher
Roc Hardcover
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Mankind's future in this galaxy could be all but infinite... There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years--and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of humanity. But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. There is no glamor that accompanies it, like being the first man on the moon, nor is there...
6) Silverhair
Author
Series
Mammoth volume 1
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
"Hear their song! For they are the last of the woolly mammoths, the great, shaggy gentle ones whose bones have greened Earth's grasses through the Long Years, for fifty million springs. Hear their story."--BOOK JACKET. "Silverhair is filled with dreams of youth, and the warmth of Lop-ear's child growing in her belly. But even as her life begins, her world is ending around her. A new menace, more vicious than wolf or bear, is descending upon the snowlands...
7) Ring
Author
Series
Xeelee sequence volume 4
Publisher
HarperPrism Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
8) Transcendent
Author
Series
Destiny's children volume 3
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Breathtaking . . . brilliantly conducted . . . Far-future philosophic space opera and near-future eco-thriller combine effectively.”—Locus
It is the year 2047, and nuclear engineer Michael Poole is mourning the death of his beloved wife and doubting his own sanity. But he must stave off a looming catastrophe: vast reservoirs of toxic gases lie beneath the melting poles, threatening to contaminate the atmosphere...
It is the year 2047, and nuclear engineer Michael Poole is mourning the death of his beloved wife and doubting his own sanity. But he must stave off a looming catastrophe: vast reservoirs of toxic gases lie beneath the melting poles, threatening to contaminate the atmosphere...
9) Coalescent
Author
Series
Destiny's children volume 1
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Lean, taut storytelling . . . breakneck stuff . . . Arguably his most accessible book to date—Baxter [is] resplendent.”—SFX magazine
When his father dies suddenly, George Poole stumbles onto a family secret: He has a twin sister he never knew existed, who was raised by an enigmatic cult called the Order. The Order is a hive—a human hive with a dominant queen—that has prospered below the streets...
When his father dies suddenly, George Poole stumbles onto a family secret: He has a twin sister he never knew existed, who was raised by an enigmatic cult called the Order. The Order is a hive—a human hive with a dominant queen—that has prospered below the streets...
Author
Series
Medusa chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In a sequel to Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s Nebula Award-winning novella “A Meeting With Medusa,” two modern science fiction masters continue the story of Howard Falcon, who, after losing his life in an accident, is transformed into an augmented human and no longer himself.
12) Ultima
Author
Series
Proxima novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hailed as 'one of the most inventive writers that science fiction has ever produced' (SF Site), Stephen Baxter builds on the massive success of Proxima with a career-defining novel of big ideas.... On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered--hatches that allowed humans to step across light-years of space as if they were stepping into another room. But this newfound freedom has consequences.... As humanity discovers the real nature...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A sequel to the H.G. Wells classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, brilliantly realized by award-winning SF author and Wells expert Stephen Baxter It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs....
14) Galaxias
Author
Publisher
Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has managed to overcome a series of catastrophic events and maintain some sense of stability. Space exploration has begun again. Science has led the way. But then one day, the sun goes out. Solar panels are useless, and the world begins to freeze Earth begins to fall out of its orbit. The end is nigh"--
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