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Author
Series
Teixcalaan volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass--still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire--face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity....
3) Survival
Author
Series
Star quest trilogy volume Book 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a human team is sent to scout a few hundred light-years in front of the death wave, it encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons and have survived earlier 'death waves,' gamma-ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In New York Times bestseller Extraterrestrial, Avi Loeb, Chair of Harvard's Astronomy Department, presented a theory that shook the scientific community: our solar system, Loeb claimed, had been visited by a piece of advanced alien technology from a distant star. This provocative and persuasive argument opened thousands of minds to the vast possibilities of our universe and the existence of intelligent life beyond Earth. But a crucial question remained:...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
427 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the origins of Thrawn, one of the most ruthless warriors in the Galactic Empire, and the events behind his rise in the Imperial ranks.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From a noted Cambridge zoologist, a wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like, using universal laws that govern life on Earth and in space. Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of science fiction. The time has come to abandon our fantasies of space invaders...
8) Ultima
Author
Series
Proxima volume 2
Publisher
ROC, Published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
495 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hailed as "one of the most inventive writers that science fiction has ever produced" (SF Site), Stephen Baxter builds on the massive success of Proxima with a career-defining novel of big ideas.... On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered--hatches that allowed humans to step across light-years of space as if they were stepping into another room. But this newfound freedom has consequences.... As humanity discovers the real nature...
9) Provenance
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
439 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return...
10) Probability moon
Author
Series
Probability trilogy volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
334 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Humans, having gained the ability to travel through space via a network of stargates left behind by vanished aliens, discover the planet World, inhabited by humanoids that have a shared reality, possibly caused by a huge alien artifact orbiting the planet.
11) Thrawn: treason
Author
Series
Star Wars Thrawn volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Dune Caladan trilogy volume 3
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In Dune: The Heir of Caladan, the climactic novel in the Caladan trilogy by New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, we step into the shoes of Paul Atreides. A not yet a man in years, he is about to enter a world he could never have imagined. The story that began with Duke Leto Atreides's rise to power, then continued with the consequences of Lady Jessica's betrayal, will now conclude with Paul becoming the leader that...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization." Tom's team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Actor and bestselling science writer Ben Miller takes readers to the cutting edge of one of the greatest questions of all: Is there life beyond Earth? For millennia, we have looked up at the stars and wondered whether we are alone in the universe, but in the last few years—as our probes begin to escape the solar system, and our telescopes reveal thousands of Earthlike planets—scientists have taken huge leaps toward an answer. “Forget science...
Author
Series
Interdependency volume 1
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war--and, for the...
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
32 pages : Color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Explore 12 out-of-this-world topics about the very real search for life in the universe, including the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, exoplanets, and fast radio bursts detected by enormous radio telescopes. Statistics and sidebars illuminate the content, while critical thinking questions encourage students to dig deeper"--
19) Anathem
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 937 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Anathem is perhaps the most brilliant literary invention to date from the incomparable Neal Stephenson, who rocked the world with Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. Now he imagines an alternate universe where scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians live in seclusion behind ancient monastery walls until they are called back into the world to deal with a crisis of astronomical proportions. Anathem...
20) Company's going
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p.: col. ill.; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
After inviting two spacemen to stay for dinner, Shirley and Moe are asked to return with them to their planet Nextoo to cater their sister's rather large wedding.