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3) Jupiter
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Overview: A novel of one of the strangest places imaginable, a place where hydrogen flows as a liquid, a place with a lightless ocean ten times wider than the entire earth, a place where cyclones larger than planets rage for centuries at a time. Grant Archer merely wanted to study astrophysics, to work quietly as an astronomer on the far side of the moon. But the forces of the New Morality, the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run twenty-first...
7) Powersat
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a terrible space accident, spaceplane scientist Dan Randolph, who designed the vehicle, realizes that his experiment was sabotaged and must outmaneuver terrorists, the government, and his creditors in order to prove himself.
10) Mars life
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist...
11) Farside
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When an Earth-sized planet circling a star thirty light-years away is detected, the race is on to build an astronomical observatory on Farside, the side of the Moon that never faces Earth--a dangerous task plagued by accidents and breakdowns.
12) New Earth
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth. All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years each way, so even if they are able to get...
13) Earth
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A wave of lethal gamma radiation is expanding from the core of the Milky Way galaxy at the speed of light, killing everything in its path. The countdown to when the death wave will reach Earth and the rest of the solar system is at two thousand years. Humans were helped by the Predecessors, who provided shielding generators that can protect the solar system. In return, the Predecessors asked humankind's help to save other intelligent species that...
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