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1) Cibola burn
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Series
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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Series
Expanse volume 2
Language
English
Description
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of...
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Series
Expanse volume 9
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight...
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Series
Expanse volume 3
Language
English
Description
An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core.
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Vatta's war volume 3
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English
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“Marvelously compelling . . . consummate military-adventure science fiction.”—SciFi
In the aftermath of the cold-blooded assassinations that killed her parents and shattered the Vatta interstellar shipping empire, Kylara Vatta sets out to avenge the killings and salvage the family business. Ky soon discovers a conspiracy of terrifying scope, breathtaking audacity, and utter ruthlessness. The only hope against such powerful...
In the aftermath of the cold-blooded assassinations that killed her parents and shattered the Vatta interstellar shipping empire, Kylara Vatta sets out to avenge the killings and salvage the family business. Ky soon discovers a conspiracy of terrifying scope, breathtaking audacity, and utter ruthlessness. The only hope against such powerful...
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Vatta's war volume 4
Language
English
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With most of her family dead, slaughtered in brutal attacks aimed at destroying the Vatta interstellar shipping empire, Kylara Vatta struggles to rebuild her family business and recruit allies to strike back against a fleet of pirates.
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Vatta's war volume 5
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English
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Kylara Vatta has one final opportunity to muster the forces to destroy forever her enemy's power and to restore her family's name.
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Old Man's War universe volume 3
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English
Description
Serving his human colony on distant Huckleberry as a village ombudsman, retired fighter John Perry looks forward to settling into farm life with his wife and adopted daughter before he is drawn back into the dangerous interstellar politics of his past.
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Safehold series volume 8
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the re-emergence of industrial civilization. But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan. Those dissidents...
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Series
Safehold series volume 9
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"When the leaders and soldiers of the tiny island of Charis rise up behind cybernetic avatar Merlin to defend their home, a powerful Church of God Awaiting, pushed to the brink of defeat, draws on its formidable resources and forbidden technologies in an ultimate battle between freedom and oppression." -- From Novelist.
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Series
Old Man's War universe volume 2
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to "Old Man's War," the Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations.
12) Zoe's tale
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
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.
13) Sea of stars
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Series
Kricket volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Kricket Hollowell was looking for her place in the world when she discovered that the universe was bigger--and more dangerous--than she had ever dreamed. Now, whisked across space to the planet Ethar, Kricket learns that her genetic ability to see the future makes her a sought-after commodity...and the catalyst for war between her star-crossed parents' clans. According to Alameedan prophecy, one house will rise to power and the...
14) The last Emperox
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Interdependency novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has accelerated. Entire star systems--and billions of people--are becoming cut off from the rest of human civilization. This collapse was foretold through...
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Fleet school volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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From Orson Scott Card, award-winning and bestselling author of Ender's Game, his first solo Enderverse novel in years.Children of the Fleet is a new angle on Cards bestselling series, telling the story of the Fleet in space, parallel to the story on Earth told in the Enders Shadow series.Ender Wiggin won the Third Formic war, ending the alien threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans, and the...
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Series
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
With peace restored in the kingdoms of Tsaia and Lyonya, the newly crowned kings Mikeli and Kieri face trouble in keeping their thrones due to threats from an ex-pirate, an aggressive kingdom to the north, and corrupt magical forces.
Author
Series
Space runners volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Spreading the word of the dangers still threatening Earth, Benny Love and his Moon Platoon friends track down Elijah West's long-missing research partner and wonder if he is trustworthy enough to be part of the team protecting the planet from a next wave of alien invaders.
19) Babylon's ashes
Author
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...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Holden and the crew of the Rocinante fight alongside the Combined Fleet of Earth and Mars to protect the Inner Planets from Marco Inaros and his Free Navy's campaign of death and destruction. Meanwhile, on a distant planet beyond the Rings, a new power rises. Includes the episodes: Strange Dogs; Azure Dragon; Force Projection; Redoubt; Why We Fight; Babylon's Ashes.
Holden and the crew of the Rocinante fight alongside the Combined Fleet of Earth...
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