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Series
Hitchhiker series volume 1
Language
English
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Description
This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Author
Series
Children of time volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"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....
3) Fearless
Author
Series
Fractal volume 1
Publisher
Flame Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
AD 2118. Humanity has colonised the Moon, Mars, Ceres and Europa. Captain Ellisa Shann commands Khidr, a search and rescue ship with a crew of twenty-five, tasked to assist the vast commercial freighters that supply the different solar system colonies. Shann has no legs and has taken to life in zero-g partly as a result. She is a talented tactician who has a tendency to take too much on her own shoulders. Now, while on a regular six-month patrol through...
Author
Series
Constellation trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.
5) Obscura
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, an aggressive and terrifying new form of dementia is affecting victims of all ages. The cause is unknown, and the symptoms are disturbing. Dr. Gillian Ryan is on the cutting edge of research and desperately determined to find a cure. She's already lost her husband to the disease, and now her young daughter is slowly succumbing as well. After losing her funding, she is given the unique opportunity to expand her research. She will...
6) Noumenon
Author
Series
Noumenon volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With nods to Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series and the real science of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, a touch of Hugh Howey's Wool, and echoes of Octavia Butler's voice, a powerful tale of space travel, adventure, discovery, and humanity that unfolds through a series of generational vignettes. In 2088, humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth's solar system. But one uncertainty remains: Where do we go? Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has an idea....
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Presenting these three novels in this omnibus volume for the first time, along with a new foreword and afterword by the author, A, B, C showcases Delanys masterful storytelling ability and deep devotion to his craft.
9) Chaos rising
Author
Series
Star Wars. Thrawn Ascendancy volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Discover Thrawn's origins within the Chiss Ascendancy in the first book in an epic new Star Wars trilogy from bestselling author Timothy Zahn.
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 4
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit...
13) Defy the worlds
Author
Series
Constellation trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Shunned after a trip through the galaxy with Abel, the most advanced cybernetic man ever created, Noemi Vidal dreams of traveling through the stars one more time. When a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi is the only soldier to have ever left the planet. It's up to her to save its people -- if only she wasn't flying straight into a trap. On the run to avoid his creator, Burton Mansfield, Abel hears that Noemi has been captured -- by Mansfield....
Author
Series
Thorne chronicles volume 2
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After avoiding an arranged marriage, thwarting a coup, and inadvertently kick-starting a revolution, Rory Thorne is no longer a princess, but a space pirate. When Rory and her crew-- former royal bodyguards, Thorsdottir and Zhang, and co-conspirator Jaed-- encounter an abandoned ship registered under a false name, they find evidence of vicious technology and arithmancy, alien and far beyond known capabilities. The only answer may lay in the cargo:...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her, and all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives for only the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky. A boy, broken by his past. The scarred child...
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with the words...
Author
Series
Void trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Araminta becomes the target of a galaxywide search by a government agent seeking to prevent the pilgrimage of a cult into the heart of the Void, while Edeard, the Waterwalker, finds himself faced with powerful new enemies.
Author
Series
Finniverse volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"When Earth is threatened by an invading race of bugs called the Hunger, 11-year-old Finn, his arch-nemesis, Lincoln, his crush, Julep, and one pink unicorn lunchbox become Earth's last best hope against destruction"--
Author
Series
Noumenon volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Generations ago, Convoy Seven and the AI known as I.C.C. left Earth on a mission that would take them far beyond our solar system. Launched by the Planet United Consortium, a global group formed to pursue cooperative Earth-wide interests in deep space, nine ships headed into the unknown to explore a distant star called LQ Pyx. Eons later, the convoy has returned to LQ Pyx to begin work on the Web, the alien megastructure that covers the star. Is it...
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