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61) Hostile takeover
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Financial analyst Caroline Cassandra "CC" Williams is determined to prove her worth to her corporate masters by discovering why a mining venture on an asteroid isn't profitible
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...
63) Dragon's time
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 29
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Weyrwoman Fiona struggles to keep her surviving Weyr in fighting shape while Lorana plans a complicated time-travel journey to save their world.
Author
Series
Starfire series volume 6
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Humans and their allies unite to stop an alien invasion of Earth, while the the aliens, who believe in reincarnation and are unafraid of dying, make a brutal attack on the planet, helped by their acquisition of advanced human technology.
Author
Series
Indranan war volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A conclusion to the series that includes Behind the Throne and After the Crown finds gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail preparing to fight a full-scale war to defend her people while confronting the powerful enemies who killed her family.
Author
Series
Freedom series (Anne McCaffrey) volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Kristin Bjornsen lived a normal life, right up until the day the Catteni ships floated into view above Denver. Now, as human slaves are herded into the maw of a massive vessel, Kristin realizes that her normal life is over, and her fight for freedom is just beginning.
Author
Series
Void trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
At the center of the galaxy is the Dreaming Void, an artificial black hole that may hold paradise within its walls. When a human named Inigo begins dreaming of what lies within the Void, the word spreads, triggering a religious pilgrimage into the Void and possibly a catastrophic expansion that threatens the peace of the Commonwealth Universe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In this rollicking novel of action, planetary romance, and high adventure, a determined Mary Griffith opens the only place to buy a beer on Mars' Tharsis Bulge and soon becomes the center of a terraforming company's machinations, its downfall, and the founding of a new world.
69) The prefect
Author
Series
Inspector Dreyfus novels volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous--a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than...
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 20
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
With the discovery of Aivas, the artificial intelligence hidden for centuries in Pern's southern continent, the residents of the third planet of the sun called Rukbat have learned how to end the threat posed by the periodic fall of Thread from the erratic red star that orbits the planet. Despite the abundance of rediscovered knowledge, new dangers and old fears surface, forcing Dragonriders, Holders, and Craftmasters all to reconsider their purpose...
71) Hellhole
Author
Series
Hellhole trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
On a colonized planet called Hellhole, defeated and exiled rebel General Tiber Adolphus continues his honorable opposition to the political scheming and selfish machinations of the Crown Jewel worlds and grandmotherly Diadem Michella Duchenet. Adolphus and his companions work in secret to undermine the royal space travel monopoly and form a coalition of Deep Zone planets.
72) 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...
73) Rolling thunder
Author
Series
Thunder and lightning (John Varley) volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Strickland--otherwise known as Podkayne--is a third-generation Martian. Her grandfather, Manny, was one of the first men to set foot on Mars. So Poddy has some planet-sized shoes to fill. That's why she's joined the Music, Arts, and Drama Division of the Martian Navy. Though some may say her voice is a weapon in itself, Poddy passed the audition. And now she's going to Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, to be...
74) Ender in exile
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
At the close of "Ender's Game," Andrew Wiggin--called Ender--is told that he can no longer live on Earth. The 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begins the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.
75) Fields of fire
Author
Series
Frontlines (Marko Kloos) volume 5
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Mars has been under Lanky control for more than a year. Since then, the depleted forces of Earths alliances have rebuilt their fleets, staffing old warships with freshly trained troops. Torn between the need to beat the Lankies to the punch and taking enough time to put together an effective fighting force, command has decided to strike now.
76) Inhibitor phase
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hiding from a cybernetic entity determined to kill all remaining humans, a small group of people, led by Miguel de Ruyter, must take on a near-suicide mission when a refugee ship threatens to lead the enemy right to them.
77) Colonyside
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Forced out of retirement by the government to find a CEO's missing daughter, disgraced recluse Carl Butler soon discovers that this isn't an open-and-shut case as attempts are made on his life, leading him to trust no one but himself.
78) Wolf moon
Author
Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the moon, has fallen. Its riches are divided up among its many enemies, its survivors scattered. Eighteen months have passed
Author
Series
Ringworld series volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A cross-over conclusion to the Ringworld and Fleet of Worlds series finds the Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds targeted by rival war fleets after the disappearance of the Ringworld, prompting exiled Puppeteer Hindmost to draw on his knowledge of Ringworld technology to reclaim his power.
80) Dragonheart
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 27
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
When young Fiona is asked to take on the role of Weyrwoman, she soon discovers the challenges of her new position, from unexpected perils to the possibility of losing her own dragon to the sickness that has claimed others.
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