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Provides access to the printed True Book series in the form of eBooks. There are also accompanying videos and other activities to supplement the books. This is a great resource for elementary students, in grades 3 to 6, doing research on science or social studies topics.
3) Titan
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 12
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
4) Mercury
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 14
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
As Mercury is explored for possible technological benefits, Dante Alexios investigates the planet's potential as an orbit point for power satellites, Victor Molina looks for evidence of life, and Elliot Danvers oversees the scientific progress of the first two.
5) Saturn
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 11
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
On a future Earth where fundamentalist politicians rule, the planet's dissidents are boarded on a space ark destined for Saturn, a journey that is further challenged by the schemes of corrupt individuals.
6) Farside
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 19
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 13
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Running a galactic ore carrier with his family in the wake of the Asteroid Wars, Victor Zacharius flies their ship into the middle of a military attack and bravely saves his family, only to find himself in the clutches of the seductive Cheena Madagascar.
10) Mars life
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 15
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
13) Transhuman
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life, his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When he learns that Angela has an inoperable brain tumor and is given less than six months to live, Abramson wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor. However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing...
14) The rock rats
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003, ©2002
Language
English
Description
After the death of her mentor, space industrialist Dan Randolph, pilot Pancho Barnes finds herself battling Randolph's ruthless old rival, Martin Humphries.
15) Rescue mode
Author
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The first human mission to Mars meets with near-disaster when a meteoroid strikes the spacecraft, almost destroying it. The ship is too far from Earth to simply turn around and return home. The eight-person crew must ride their crippled ship to Mars while they desperately struggle to survive. On Earth, powerful political forces that oppose human spaceflight try to use the accident as proof that sending humans into space is too dangerous to continue....
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this new anthology, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative. Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction."--Publisher.
Author
Series
Billionaire's Club volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"How do you get to the Red Planet? Not via a benighted government program trapped in red tape. Art Thrasher knows this. He is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. Thrasher has a plan. Form a 'club' of billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. A billionaire himself and the president of a successful company, it will take all his wiles and master manipulator of business and capital to overcome setbacks and...
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