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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Gurple and Preen crash land onto a strange alien planet, they must work together to build something new from their mistake in order to save their mission.
Author
Series
Sci-fi junior high volume 1
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/ Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
327 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Sci-Fi Junior High: an intergalactic space station with students of all shapes, sizes, smells, and slime content.
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
Author
Series
The Lady astronaut novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Fated Sky looks forward to 1961, when mankind is well-established on the moon and looking forward to its next step: journeying to, and eventually colonizing, Mars. Of course the noted Lady Astronaut Elma York would like to go, but there's a lot riding on whoever the International Aerospace Coalition decides to send on this historic--but potentially very dangerous--mission? Could Elma really leave behind her husband and the chance to start a family...
Author
Series
The expanse volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
582 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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
The expanse volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Trade Paperback Edition
Physical Desc
563 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen. Terrorist attacks previously considered impossible bring the inner planets to their knees. The sins of the past are returning to exact...
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 2
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The universe has broken wide, and Lyra's friend lies dead. Desperate for answers and set on revenge, Lyra bursts into a new world in pursuit of his killer. Instead, she finds Will Parry on a quest as fierce as Lyra's. Sequel to the Golden Compass.
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First American Edition.
Physical Desc
47 p. : ill. ; 36 cm.
Language
English
Description
See the vehicles of Star Wars: The Last Jedi brought to life in 13 stunning cross-section artworks. Technical details and complete backstories reveal all the reader needs to know about the new craft of the Star Wars galaxy.
10) The dark veil
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
321 p.
Language
English
Description
"When the USS Titan is drawn into a catastrophic incident on the Romulan-Federation border, Captain William Riker, his family, and his crew find themselves caught between the shocking secrets of an enigmatic alien species and the deadly agenda of a ruthless Tal Shiar operative. Forced into a wary alliance with a Romulan starship commander, Riker and the Titan crew must uncover the truth to stop a devastating attack--but one wrong move could plunge...
Author
Series
Wayfarers volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
443 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past. And nothing could be further from what she's known than the crew of the Wayfarer."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Wayfarers volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of years ago, the last humans on Earth boarded the Exodus Fleet in search of a new home among the stars. After centuries spent wandering empty space, their descendants were eventually accepted by the well-established species that govern the Milky Way. But that was long ago. Today, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, the birthplace of many, yet a place few outsiders have ever visited. While the Exodans take great pride in their original community...
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
158 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks ...
Author
Series
Wayfarers volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
c2016
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who's determined to help her learn and grow. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together....
15) Ancestral night
Author
Series
White Space volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
502 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Bear won the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer in 2005 and has since published 15 novels and numerous short stories. She writes in both the SF and fantasy genres and has won critical acclaim in both. She has won the Hugo award more than once. She lives in Massachusetts. Visit her on Twitter @matociquala"--
"Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is...
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
192 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jedi Padawan Nuru Kungurama and the clone troopers of Breakout Squad are sent on a diplomatic mission to the Unknown Regions by Chancellor Palpatine. Traveling with renegade cargo pilot Lalo Gunn, the young Jedi and his clone escorts are in for an unexpected surprise when they encounter the infamous Black Hole Pirates.
Author
Series
Stars and bones volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks--each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities. When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her. What she discovers on Candidate-623 is both terrifying and deadly....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
19) Tiamat's wrath
Author
Series
The expanse volume 8
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
First Paperback Edition.
Physical Desc
565 p.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable....
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
c2021
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before even The Phantom Menace . . . Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in The High Republic. It is a golden age. Intrepid hyperspace scouts expand the reach of the Republic to the furthest stars, worlds flourish under the benevolent leadership of the Senate, and peace reigns, enforced by the wisdom and strength of the renowned order of Force users known as the Jedi. With the Jedi at the height of their...