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41) Zoe's tale
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
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.
42) The Grays
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Language
English
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We are not alone. Millions of people are confronting aliens that authorities say do not exist.
Meet the Three Thieves, a group of Grays assigned to duty in a small Kentucky town. They have been preparing a child for generations. Innocent Conner Callaghan will face the ultimate terror as he struggles to understand who he has been bred to be, and what he must do to save humanity. Colonel Michael Morax strives to keep the secret of the Grays from
43) Baloney, Henry P
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school again.
44) Children of time
Author
Series
Children of time volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied....
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English
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"A young planetary scientist intimately details the search for life on Mars, tracing our centuries-old obsession with this seemingly desolate planet. Mars was once similar to Earth, but today there are no rivers, no lakes, no oceans. Coated in red dust, the terrain is bewilderingly empty. And yet multiple spacecraft are circling Mars, sweeping over Terra Sabaea, Syrtis Major, the dunes of Elysium, and Mare Sirenum-on the brink, perhaps, of a staggering...
Author
Series
Liaden universe novels volume 23
Language
English
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"The only bridge between past and future is a leap of faith. Pursued by enemies, exiled Liaden clan Korval is settling into a new base on backworld Surebleak. Moving is expensive, as is war, and Korval is strapped for cash. Delm Korval has therefore instructed Master Trader Shan yos'Galan to design and implement new trade routes, quickly. But this is no easy task. Dutiful Passage is targeted by Korval's enemies, denied docking at respectable ports,...
47) The last Emperox
Author
Series
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...
Author
Series
Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Ender Saga continues with Shadow of the Giant, which parallels the events of Ender's Game from a different character's point of view.
Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that
Author
Series
Cadwal chronicles volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
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Description
The Planet Cadwal has a carefully controlled ecosystem, the Conservators are faced with a conspiracy of aliens and humans to change this ecosystem.
50) Omega
Author
Series
Priscilla Hutchins series volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Zones of thought volume Prequel
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
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Description
The story of the Spiders, inhabitants of a planet where the sun regularly stops shining for periods of 200 years, during which they are frozen in ice. The novel picks them up emerging from their most recent hibernation in a frenzy of activity and innovation to make up for lost time.
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents,...
53) Sphere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanations. It is a spaceship.
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet, to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. By control of the data banks, and subtle interference in the very thoughts of the people, the artificial intelligence has fulfilled its mission. Having lost access to some of its memory banks, and some of its power systems are failing. And on the...
55) Shadow planet
Author
Series
Quest for tomorrow volume 5
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Extraterrestrial comes a mind-expanding new book explaining why becoming an interstellar species is imperative for humanity’s survival and detailing a game plan for how we can settle among the stars. In the New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb, the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb...
58) Embassytown
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Language
English
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Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
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