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2) Outside in
Author
Series
Insiders (Maria Snyder) volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After leading a victorious rebellion against the Uppers, Trella is forced to continue her leadership role and must help her people face a threat from outside their cube.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Bean moves with three of his children into a derelict space colony ship where they hope for a cure to engineered genes that give them high intelligence and short lives, a situation that is complicated when space-time distortions cause them to be forgotten by humanity.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Sarco volume 1
Publisher
Enclave Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Earth has emerged from a cataclysmic dark age with little knowledge of its past. Aided by the discovery of advance alien technology, humanity ventures into the stars joining other sentient races in a sprawling, prosperous interstellar Confederacy. That peace is soon shattered. Without warning, the Confederacy comes under attack by an unstoppable alien force from the unknown regions. With hopes for civilization's survival dwindling, Commander Jared...
6) Saturn run
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly wit, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now, in collaboration with Ctein, he proves it all once more, in a...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Sarco volume 2
Publisher
Enclave Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Humanity and its allies have survived the terror of the planet-ship known as Malum. The Confederacy, badly beaten but not destroyed, is slowly rebuilding from its brush with oblivion. Now Navy officer Jared Carter has a new task: to track Malum's path back across the Great Void and determine what threat its makers still pose to the Confederacy. At his command will be the most powerful ship in the Navy and a brand-new escort fleet. But dangers loom...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For the first time, all of the short fiction set in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series is available in this collection, including a brand new novella. Includes Drive; The Butcher of Anderson Station; The Churn; Gods of Risk; The Vital Abyss; Strange Dogs; Auberon; and The Sins of Our Fathers.
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit intelligent technology.
But, by some miscalculation they have landed in another solar system and must shape the gas giant planet...
10) The mutation
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"There is a computer called Mother that runs the ship keeping the remaining members of the human race alive. And that computer has the ability to create imaginary worlds filled with things that dont' - can't - exist."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A huge space station on the fringes of human space, SSS-900 is controlled by the brain of Simeon, a shellperson who relieves his daily monotony by replaying computer simulations of great battles. When a battered, jury-rigged ship appears to threaten the station, they rescue the people who are fleeing from the vicious Kolnari pirates. As the Kolnari take over the station, the stationers and the Bethelites from the rescued ship must devise ways to work...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
As James T. Kirk prepares to retire from a long and illustrious Starfleet career, events in a distant part of the Federation draw him back to a part of the galaxy he had last visited as a young man -- a mysterious world called Faramond whose name takes Kirk on a journey back to his youth. At sixteen, Kirk is troubled, estranged from his father, and has a bleak future. However, a trip into space with Kirk's father George and Starfleet legend Captain...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The long awaited sequel to master storyteller Stephen Coonts's Saucer brings back the characters, action, and exhilaration that made the original a smash. After discovering the secrets of a 140,000-year-old spacecraft in Saucer, Rip Cantrell and beautiful test pilot Charley Pine think their days of high-flying extraterrestrial adventure are over. But when Pine takes up flying spaceplanes to the moon for the French lunar base project, she discovers...
14) Forge of heaven
Author
Series
Gene Wars volume 2
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
From C.J. Cherryh, one of science fiction′s greatest writers and a 3-time Hugo Award "Best Novel" winner, comes the exciting and long-awaited follow-up to Hammerfall, the second novel of the Gene Wars. In the second volume of "The Gene Wars," C. J. Cherryh further explores the captivating new universe where two interstellar empires, scarred by nanotechnology weaponry, hover in an uneasy detente. Perched at the edge of the galaxy, tiny Concord Station...
15) Crossover
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Ambassador Spock continues his mission to unify the Romulan and Vulcan peoples, but is captured by a Romulan spy. Starfleet dispatches its best ship, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM 1701-D, and its most respected captain, Jean-Luc Picard, to secure the release of the ambassador. Ambassador McCoy, now over 140 years old, is also sent to assist in the negotiations. But the situation becomes further complicated when another of Spock's former shipmates, Montgomery...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
After the end of the Enterprise's five-year mission, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy struggle to establish new lives apart from each other and the starship. The newly-promoted Admiral Kirk is placed in charge of a specially-created Starfleet division and attempts to defuse a critical hostage situation; Mr. Spock, who, in the midst of a teaching assignment on Vulcan, finds the one thing he least expected; and Dr. McCoy, whose unerring instinct...
17) The valiant
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Three hundred years ago, the S.S. Valiant was destroyed during an ill-fated attempted to cross the legendary Galactic Barrier. Starfleet had always assumed that the Valiant had perished with all hands aboard, until a pair of unusual humanoids arrive at Starbase 209, claiming to be the descendants of a handful of Valiant survivors who found refuge on an M-Class planet beyond the Barrier. Even more shocking, the visitors warn that a hostile alien...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic, standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra. When Unit Four--a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere--is activated for the first time, it's in crisis mode. Aliens are attacking...
Author
Series
Acorna's children volume 1
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Beloved by millions of readers, Anne McCaffrey is one of science fiction's favorite authors. Writing with award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, she has created the bestselling Acorna series focusing on the adventures of the brave unicorn girl.
Now the exciting saga of the next generation begins.
First WarningKhorii, daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, must contend with an overwhelming legacy to forge a path of her...
20) Outpost
Author
Series
Donovan novels volume 1
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Language
English
Description
The first book in a thrilling new sci-fi action adventure, set on Donovan, a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the planet's inhabitants. A ghost ship, the Freelander, appears in orbit. Missing for two years, she arrives with a crew dead of old age, and reeks of a bizarre death-cult ritual that deters any ship from attempting a return journey. But maybe it's worth the risk, for a brutal killer...
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