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41) Boneyards
Author
Series
Diving universe volume 3
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A space opera filled with battles old and new, scientific dilemmas, and questions about the ethics of friendship, "Boneyards" looks at the influence of our past on our present and the risks we all take when we meddle in other people's lives.
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 3
Language
English
Description
A young apprentice, an alien academic, a caretaker for the dead, an archivist, and others wrestle with profound questions after their evacuation ship, carrying the last humans on Earth, finally reaches its destination.
Return to the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, as humans, artificial intelligence, aliens, and some beings yet undiscovered explore what it means to be a community in this exciting third adventure in the acclaimed and multi-award-nominated...
Author
Series
Karres novels volume 2
Publisher
Baen Pub. Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After eliminating the Worm World threat and outwitting a deadly gang of space pirates, Captain Pausert embarks on a mission for the Empress Haile to stop a nanite plague before it can devastate entire worlds.
Author
Series
Children of time volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yetlife is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost. Then strangers appear. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling technology--and they've arrived from another world to help humanity's...
46) Carnival
Author
Series
Firefly) volume 6
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On the event of an annual carnival on Neapolis, a desert city on planet Bethel, the crew of Serenity arrives to guard a costly shipment but finds tragedy instead, when the cargo is stolen and Zoë and Book are kidnapped.
Author
Series
RCN series volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Lt. Daniel Leary commands the Princess Cecile; Signals Officer Adele Mundy has the spy apparatus and skill to crack any database. All they lack are enemies, and fate is about to supply those in abundance!"--
48) How to Mars
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Six scientists accept an eccentric billionaire's offer of a lifetime of research on Mars, but the incredible opportunity includes their constant surveillance as a reality tv show broadcasts their every moment as tempers flare, affairs blossom and equipment fails.
49) Xenocide
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Days after all communication between Earth and the fleet sent to destroy Lusitania is cut, a young woman named Gloriously Bright is sent to locate the Lusitania Fleet, a mission that exposes her to an artificial intelligence.
50) Space opera
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization. Something to cheer up everyone who was left. Something to celebrate having escaped total annihilation by the skin of one's teeth, if indeed one has skin. Or teeth. Something to...
51) Claws that catch
Author
Series
Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 4
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In the fourth Looking Glass novel, the "Vorpal Blade" is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the black box that drives humanity's only space ship. Any remnant technology would be nice, but what the "Vorpal Blade" finds is much more than its crew had bargained for.
52) Odd girl out
Author
Series
Frank Compton series volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Entreated by a gun-wielding woman to rescue her ten-year-old sister from a New Tigris abductor, former government agent Frank Compton turns the woman down only to be implicated in her subsequent murder, a situation that prompts his investigation into the sister's disappearance.
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 7
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age while waiting for the Capella, an interstellar transport that vanished in a space/time warp eleven years prior, to reappear.
Author
Series
Book of the new sun volume 5
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
Severian, the Autarch of Urth, leaves the planet on one of the huge spaceships of the alien Hierodules to travel across time and space to face his greatest test, to become the legendary New Sun or die.
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After harsh conditions on Earth threaten humanity's survival, Cooper, a farmer who is also a former NASA test pilot, leads a group of explorers on a mission to find an inhabitable planet in a distant galaxy, testing the limitations of space travel as they cross a wormhole.
56) Death troopers
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Death troopers volume 1
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Follows the harrowing experiences of the crew of an Imperial prison barge that scavenges an abandoned Star Destroyer when their own ship breaks down, a mission that kills half of the team while the other half brings back a lethal infection.
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 6
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
In a continuation of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" saga, Arthur Dent returns to Earth from his galactic adventures and discovers that the planet is about to be blown up yet again.
58) Rama II
Author
Series
Rama series volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
The best and brightest minds on Earth are assembled to rendezvous with the massive alien spacecraft Rama II in the twenty-third century, and even though they are schooled in everything known about Raman technology and culture, they are still not prepared for the reality.
59) Vulcan's heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Ambassador Spock secretly journeys to the planet Romulus at the request of a Romulan commander to help her prevent a catastrophe that could ignite the entire quadrant and becomes enmeshed in the treacherous intrigues of the Romulan empire, while Commander Saavik and Captain Jean-Luc Picard set out to rescue him.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
"Writing separately, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle are responsible for a number of science fiction classics, such as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ringworld, Debt of Honor, and The Integral Trees. Together they have written the critically acclaimed bestsellers Inferno, Footfall, and The Legacy of Heorot, among others. The Mote In God's Eye is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel of mankind's first encounter with alien life that transcends...
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