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1) Dune
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English
Description
The saga of intergalactic warrior, Paul Atreides, and his messianic rise to leadership. Paul goes to the mysterious desert planet, Arrakis, also known as Dune, where he must face the ultimate tests of his power.
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Murderbot diaries volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest...
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Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. Leto Atreides, the son of the world's savior, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, is still alive but far from human. To preserve humanity's future, he sacrificed his own by merging with a sandworm, granting him near immortality as God Emperor of Dune for the past thirty-five hundred years. Leto's rule is not a benevolent one. His transformation has made not only his appearance...
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"With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the...
7) Xenocide
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Series
Ender Wiggin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
The Starways Congress decides that the deadly virus on Lusitania must be wiped out and sends a fleet to destroy it. After the fleet disappears, Gloriously Bright, the most brilliant mind in a world of people bred for superintelligence, is selected to solve the mystery.
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Expanse volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has built a massive gate that leads to a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex...
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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....
10) Caliban's war
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Series
Expanse volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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We are not alone. The alien protomolecule is clear evidence of an intelligence beyond human reckoning. No one knows what exactly is being built on Venus, but whatever it is, it is vast, powerful, and terrifying. When a creature of unknown origin and seemingly impossible physiology attacks soldiers on Ganymede, the fragile balance of power in the Solar System shatters. Now, the race is on to discover if the protomolecule has escaped Venus, or if someone...
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Foundation series volume 5
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English
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After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins - destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But is has been rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first time - but now he is certain he know where it is. And this time the annihilation will be total: no trace of...
12) Amaryllis
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Series
St. Helen's trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Recently cut off from her home planet with the rest of her colony, psychic detective Amaryllis Lark is approached by Lucas Trent, the head of Lodestar Exploration, to help him expose a corporate thief.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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On Imir, Captain Holt founded a new colony on an empty world. In the process, he created hope and a new future for humanity. But generations later, his descendants are struggling to survive. As harvests worsen and equipment fails, strangers appear in a town where everyone knows their neighbor. Now the inexplicable lurks in the woods and the community fears it's being observed - that they're not alone. They'd be right, as explorers from the stars had...
14) Orchid
Author
Series
St. Helen's trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Psychic romance novelist Orchid Adams meets her match on the space colony of St. Helen's when an assignment with a lone-wolf private investigator puts her mind and her heart on a collision course.
15) Killing Titan
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Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After an enforced isolation on earth, Master Sergeant Michael Venn returns to Mars to further investigate the ancient artifacts that have suddenly awakened, but is instead led to Saturn's moon, Titan, where war is brewing between the Drifters and the Gurus.
16) Contact
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway receives an encrypted message, apparently from a solar system many light-years away.
17) Ancillary mercy
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Imperial Radch volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In the stunning conclusion to the Imperial Radch trilogy, a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist. A messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai, ruler of an empire at war with itself. Breq refuses to flee with her ship and crew, because that would leave the people of Athoek in terrible danger. The odds aren't good, but that's never...
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Shadow series (Orson Scott Card) volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Bean, nearing death, and his wife Petra search for their stolen children with the help of their former Battle School classmates while Peter Wiggin attempts to restore world government with himself as hegemon.
19) Meru
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Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a future where human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy, Jayanthi, the adopted human child alloys, and her alloy pilot Vaha are sent to test the habitability of an Earthlike planet called Meru, an unoccupied new world, and the future of human-alloy relations.
20) Empire of man
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"March Upcountry and March to the Sea in one combination volume. Roger Ramius MacClintock was young, handsome, athletic, an excellent dresser, third in line for the Throne of Man and a spoiled, self-centered, petulant prince. Then the Empire's worst rivals sabotage and cripple his vessel and Roger and his Bravo Company of Bronze Battalion of the Empress's Own Regiment are stranded on the planet Marduk whose jungles are full of deadly predators and...
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