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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Description
During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira Navárez finds an alien relic. At first delighted, her elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact is not at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. Now Earth and its colonies stand...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 8
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race, and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the re-emergence of industrial civilization. But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan. Those...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Yesterday, the Star Kingdom of Manticore was a small, unimportant interstellar backwater. A quiet little star nation, only recently recovered from the devastating blow of the Plague Years. More affluent than some, perhaps, but with little to attract trade or interstellar commerce, it had little need for a navy... and even less interest in paying for one. But Manticore has now become a target. The Star Kingdom isn't certain who is attacking it, or...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Batuu, at the edges of the Unknown Regions, a threat to the Empire is taking root. It is troubling enough to warrant investigation by ruthless enforcer Lord Darth Vader and brilliant strategist Grand Admiral Thrawn. Fierce rivals for the emperor's favor, the formidable pair seem unlikely partners. Now they find themselves bound again for the planet where they once fought side by side. There they will be doubly challenged-- by a test of their allegiance...
Author
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It's tough to be a droid! When TIE fighters attack the Ghost, it's up to the cranky astromech droid, Chopper, to keep the ship together. If only his crewmates would decide whether they want him to repair the shields or the intercom..or the shields ... or the intercom."--
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.
12) Redshirts
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new--no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud--a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. Then...
15) The last war
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Earth is under attack. 20 years after the American-Chinese war devastated our worlds, we finally have a tense peace. But legendary American Admiral Jack Mattis, on his inspection tour of the first joint American-Chinese space station, finds himself in the middle of the unthinkable: an alien invasion. Their ships are powerful, their weapons overwhelming. And in the confusion, our tentative peace with the Chinese is shaken to the core. Taking command...
Author
Series
Star wars novels. Force unleashed volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books/Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
CEO Artur Drakon has been betrayed. The Syndic government failed to protect its citizens from both the Alliance and the alien enigmas. With a cadre of loyal soldiers under his command, Drakon launches a battle for control of the Midway Star System--assisted by an ally he's unsure he can trust.
18) Leviathan wakes
Author
Series
Expanse volume 1
Language
English
Description
Humanity has colonized the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond -- but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for -- and kill on a scale unfathomable to...
19) Robot rampage
Author
Series
LEGO Hero factory.Secret mission volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Stormer sends Bulk and Furno to investigate why their planet can no longer communicate by radio and to find out what happened to Stringer, who sent a warning message from Tranquis VII and then vanished.
20) Embassytown
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
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