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Author
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.
2) Cibola burn
Author
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...
4) Webdancers
Author
Series
Timeweb chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Author
Series
The Lost Stars volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
CEO Artur Drakon has been betrayed. The Syndic government failed to protect its citizens from both the Alliance and the alien enigmas. With a cadre of loyal soldiers under his command, Drakon launches a battle for control of the Midway Star System--assisted by an ally he's unsure he can trust.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Traces the events of the First Formic War, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
Author
Series
The Lost Stars volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In a world where former rulers have become new foes, an alien threat to humanity may turn old adversaries into uncertain allies. General Artur Drakon and President Gwen Iceni form an alliance that places the Midway flotilla at great risk in hopes of greater reward: recruiting the personnel necessary to man warships against the enigmas.
Author
Publisher
SAGA Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"'The war has turned us into light. Transforming us into light is the fastest way to travel from one front to another, and there are many fronts, now. I always wanted to be a hero. I always wanted to be on the side of light. It's funny how things work out.' Soldiers in the war against Mars, The Light Brigade, live brief lives, but the veterans are starting to be affected by changes in their bodies and minds, slipping in and out of time, or are they...
12) Pretender
Author
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
c2005
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...
13) The hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Warsthe alien invasions of Earths Solar System that ultimately led to Ender Wiggins total victory in Ender's Game. A coalition of Earths nations barely fought off the Formics first scout...
Author
Series
The Lost Stars volume 3
Publisher
Ace Hardcover
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The wait is over. New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell continues his action-packed spin-off to The Lost Fleet series as the Syndicate's civil war threatens to spread even farther into the final frontier ... President Gwen Iceni and GeneralArtur Drakon have successfully liberated the Midway Star System-but the former rulers of the Syndicate Worlds won't surrender the region without a fight. The dictatorial regime has ordered the ex-Syndicate...
15) Shattered spear
Author
Series
The Lost Stars volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Fleet series returns to the "strong saga"* of a rebellion against a totalitarian regime, and the determination of two people to create a better future in the farthest reaches of the colonized galaxy... The Syndicate Worlds continues to splinter as more star systems pledge allegiance to President Gwen Iceni, General Artur Drakon, and the new government they're establishing at Midway. But the toxic...
16) Jack Four
Author
Series
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jack Four-one of twenty human clones-has been created to be sold. His purchasers are the alien prador and they only want him for their experimentation program. But there is something different about Jack. No clone should possess the knowledge that's beenloaded into his mind. And no normal citizen of humanity's Polity worlds would have this information. The prador's king has been mutated by the Spatterjay virus into a creature even more monstrous...
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