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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Martian spacecraft lands on Woking Common, mankind is terrorized by aliens in tall, armored capsules which stalk the countryside on three legs. The machines wreak havoc on London and the Southern Counties, and survivors are driven underground. Scientist John Nicholson tells how he was plunged into a paralyzing nightmare of stark terror, savage madness and utter destruction.
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Formats
Description
The second book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Caliban's War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante's shoulders. Now a Prime Original series.
HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
We are not alone.
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous...
HUGO AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SERIES
We are not alone.
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous...
Author
Series
Morcai Battalion volume 1
Publisher
Luna
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a rag-tag band of humans from the Terravegan colonies are defeated and imprisoned by Rojok invaders, their female exobiologist has to save the life of the alien commander in order to save her captain, her comrades, and herself.
Author
Series
Expanse volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
Author
Series
Lords of Creation volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Marc Vitrac was born in Louisiana in the early 1960's, about the time the first interplanetary probes delivered the news that Mars and Venus were teeming with life-even human life. At that point, the "Space Race" became the central preoccupation of the great powers of the world.Now, in 1988, Marc has been assigned to Jamestown, the US-Commonwealth base on Venus, near the great Venusian city of Kartahown. Set in a countryside swarming with sabertooths...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The mining ship El Cavador, beyond Pluto, detects a fast-moving incoming object headed toward Earth. The crew decides it's probably not important, but they're wrong: it represents the opening wave of the first Formic War.
Author
Series
Machineries of empire volume 2
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Captain Kel Cheris is possessed by a long-dead traitor general. Together they must face the rivalries of the hexarchate and a potentially devastating invasion."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A latest entry in the Ender's Game prequel series that includes Earth Afire follows an invasion of terraforming aliens on Earth, which is complicated by politics and power struggles until a small band of humans organize a desperate defense.
Author
Series
Fleet school volume 1
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. He's top of his class in every school, but he doesn't think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. But then Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview, and everything changes.
13) The Hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A second prequel to Ender's Game continues the sci-fi history of the Formic Wars and finds the warring nations and corporations of Earth struggling to set aside their differences to defend against an imminent alien invasion.
Author
Series
RCN volume 11
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dispatched by high-ranking officials to a distant but critical star system, naval captain Daniel Leary and cybrarian spy Adele Murphy are challenged to prevent a war between the Republic of Cinnabar and their rival, the Alliance of Free Stars. --
15) War of honor
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
No one wanted another war. Now that the fighting between the Star Kingdom and the Havenites had ended, the Andermani Emperor had his own plans for Silesia, and he was confident he and his people could achieve them without a war of their own.
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Film novelizations volume 8
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An official novelization of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" follows a band of rebels on a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans.
17) Bloodline
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A thrilling prequel to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, set roughly six years before the events of the film.
18) Cobra gamble
Author
Series
Cobra war volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Cobra warriors, genetically enhanced and implanted with an arsenal of covert weaponry, are the most dangerous guerilla fighters humanity has ever produced. For Jin Moreau Broom, the war is the culmination of a lifetime of Cobra service. But it is also the height of danger for herself and her family as they struggle to survive a war that none of them ever expected to see."--Jacket flap.
19) Apocalypse
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
There can be no surrender. There will be no mercy. It's not just the future of the galaxy at stake-- it's the destiny of the Force. Coruscant is the battlefield. The Jedi Knights take the Sith infiltrators by swift and fierce surprise. But victory against the cunning and savage Abeloth is anything but certain...
20) Earth Afire
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
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