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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
2) Marsbound
Author
Series
Marsbound novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against. And when she ventures out into the bleak Mars landscape alone one night, a simple accident leads her to the edge of death until she is saved by an angel--an angel...
Author
Series
Great illustrated classics volume G224-53
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An English astronomer, in company with an artilleryman, a country curate, and others, struggle to survive the invasion of Earth by Martians in 1894.
Author
Series
Commonwealth saga volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When the arrival of human colonists in a faraway system unleashes a race of aliens formerly imprisoned within a giant force field, the aliens, having fought for centuries over scarce resources, turn to human space to fulfill their wants.
7) Ilium
Author
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The first installment of a new saga based on themes from "The Iliad" and "The Tempest" places classical characters and gods in such settings as the Plains of Ilium, the terraformed oceans of Mars, and Jupiter space.
Author
Series
Black hole sun volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On the planet Mars, sixteen-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.
10) Huo xing ren wu
Author
Series
iREAD volume 84
Publisher
San cai wen hua
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
中文(繁體)
11) Killing Titan
Author
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.
13) Portal
Author
Series
Boundary novels volume 3
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Madeline Fathom and the stranded members of the Odin vessel struggle to survive the lethal elements of Europa while attempting to repair an escape shuttle, an effort that is further complicated by the discovery of a formidable trap.
16) El marciano
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Hace seis dias, el astronauta Mark Watney se convirtio en una de las primeras personas en caminar en Marte. Ahora, el esta seguro de que va a ser la primera persona en morir alli. Despues de que una tormenta de polvo casi lo mata y obliga a su tripulacion a evacuar mientras lo hacian muerto, Mark se encuentra atrapado y completamente solo, sin manera de siquiera dar una senal a la tierra de que esta vivo, y aunque el pudiera conseguir palabra hacia...
17) Boundary
Author
Series
Boundary novels volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
What is a paleontologist doing on Mars? Pushing her boundaries. Problematica, n: a term used in paleontology to refer to fossils that appear to be either of unknown taxonomic origin, or whose occurrence in the location they are found contradicts current beliefs of the field. A "funny fossil" is found that no one had seen before out in the middle of the Arizona desert. The strangely shaped fossil could help explain one of the greatest mysteries of...
Author
Publisher
Aleich'i K'oria (RHK)
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Korean
Description
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney was one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark is stranded alone with no way to even signal Earth. Even if he could, he wouldn't last until rescue arrived. Chances are, though, he won't starve -- so many other things are likely to kill him first. But Mark isn't ready to give...
19) One way
Author
Series
Frank Kitteridge novels volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When the small crew of ex-cons working on Mars start getting murdered, everyone is a suspect in this terrifying science fiction thriller from bona fide rocket scientist and award winning-author S.J. Morden. It's the dawn of a new era - and we're ready to colonize Mars. But the company that's been contracted to construct a new Mars base, has made promises they can't fulfill and is desperate enough to cut corners. The first thing to go is the automation...
Author
Publisher
Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It has been 14 years since the Martians invaded England. The world has moved on, always watching the skies but content that we know how to defeat the Martian menace. Machinery looted from the abandoned capsules and war-machines has led to technological leaps forward. The Martians are vulnerable to earth germs. The Army is prepared. So when the signs of launches on Mars are seen, there seems little reason to worry. Unless you listen to one man, Walter...
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