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Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal-an experience that shocks him to his core. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all...
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Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti volume 1
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2023.
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""Every once in a while, a book comes along that is both a comfort read and a rousing, fist-pumping adventure, and The Mimicking of Known Successes absolutely is both of those things. An utter triumph."-Charlie Jane Anders. The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle. On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Legendary author Ray Bradbury unfolds the story of humankind's conquest and colonization of Mars. In a bid to save themselves from Earth's imminent destruction, humans send several explorations to the Red Planet. Although secretive, the Martians are inviting at first. However, disease carried to Mars by the human colonists soon sparks an intergalactic war.
5) Proxima
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Proxima novels volume 1
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Roc Hardcover
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[2014]
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English
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"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...
7) Zoe's tale
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Old Man's War universe volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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A seventeen-year-old colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world recounts how she became a pawn in a dangerous interstellar confrontation during which she was forced to use her wits and make terrible sacrifices in order to save the human race.
8) The prefect
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Inspector Dreyfus novels volume 1
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Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous--a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than...
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Murderbot diaries volume 7
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2023.
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"Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be...
10) Lotus and thorn
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"Exiled from her desert community and separated from her sisters, Leica finds refuge in the Dome, where she hopes to uncover the truth behind a deadly plague and find a way home"--
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Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Bean flees to the stars with three of his children, the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten - a fading signal speaking of events lost to Earth's history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves,...
13) Retrograde
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Retrograde volume 1
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2017.
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English
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"Mankind has long dreamed of reaching out to live on other planets, and with the establishment of the Mars Endeavour colony, that dream has become reality. The fledgling colony consists of 120 scientists, astronauts, medical staff, and engineers. Buried deep underground, they're protected from the harsh radiation that sterilizes the surface of the planet. The colony is prepared for every eventuality except one--what happens when disaster strikes Earth?"--...
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Goddess in the machine volume 2
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Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Battling the dangerous forces buried within their minds, Andra and Zhade will have to find a way to work together before two power-hungry leaders and a deadly swarm of rogue technology destroy humanity for good.
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RLJ Entertainment
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[2017]
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English
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Set in a time of interplanetary colonization, Sy Lombrok, a former nurse who is now a drifter with a haunted past, forms an unlikely alliance with Kane Sommerville, a lieutenant who works for off-world military contractor Exor. In a race against time, they set out to rescue Kane's young daughter, Indi, amid an impending global crisis precipitated by Exor.
18) Dragonflight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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On the beautiful planet Pern, colonized for centuries, Land Holders and Craftsmen have traditionally tithed food and supplies to the dragonweyrs to which they are bound. In times past, the mighty telepathic dragons and their riders were the only protection from the dreaded, life-threatening Thread.But it has been over 400 years since the last Threadfall, and some people have come to doubt that the menace will every strike again. But F'lar, rider of...
19) Sweep of stars
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Astra Black volume 1
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Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Maurice Broaddus's Sweep of Stars is the first in a trilogy that explores the end of an empire. Epic in scope and intimate in voice, it follows members of the Muungano empire - a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretches from O.E. (original earth) to Titan - as it faces an escalating series of threats. "The past, the present, and the future often collide with each other." -Stacia Chikeke, research captain of the star vessel Cipher What...
20) Ultima
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Proxima novels volume 2
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"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...
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