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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 2
Language
English
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Lovelace was once merely a ships 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 is 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.The...
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Series
Children of time volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She's traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named as the prime suspect. To save him from the frame-up, Tesla will risk exposure and face demons from her past. Even though doing so might make her the next victim"--
4) Aurora
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as a new home world for those on board. But the journey has brought unexpected changes and their best laid plans may not be enough to survive"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Starship Enterprise return to Talin, a planet devastated and ruined. They must find out what happened to Talin and what has become of their captain, and prove to Starfleet that they did not violate the Prime Directive, Starfleet's highest law.
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity t520 take part in the process"--
"The Fated...
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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...
Author
Series
Myron Tany series volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Myron's parents insisted that he study economics, and Myron dutifully applied himself. But Myron had an aunt--his great aunt Hester Lojoie, a woman of great wealth inherited from a dead husband, and even greater flamboyance of nature. And when Dame Hester came into possession of a space yacht, Myron suddenly saw his long-supressed dreams of adventure bloom into new life.
Author
Series
Willful child volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In the continuing adventures of the starship A.S.F. Willful Child, not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback and his motley crew embark on another rollicking ride through the infinite vastness of interstellar space.
10) Gateway: a novel
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Series
Heechee saga volume 1
Publisher
Del Ray/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Seeded among the stars are troves of valuable artifacts left behind by the enigmatic, long-vanished alien race called teh Heechee. For the right price, anyone can climb aboard one of the abandoned Heechee spaceships, cast off on an autopilot voyage to parts unknown, and take a chance on fidning wealth... or facing death. Robinette Broadhead took that chance and walked away a winner. But at what cost? -- from book cover.
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Series
Lost fleet volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century-and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized beyond belief.... Captain John "Black Jack" Geary's exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic "last stand" in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary...
12) Doctor Aphra
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Series
Language
English
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"Star Wars: Doctor Aphra is a work of fiction. Names, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental"--
A pioneer in the field of criminal xenoarchaeology, Dr. Chelli Lona Aphra recognizes no law, has no fear, and possesses no impulse control. After her latest plan goes horribly wrong, her roguish ways are...
13) Sixteenth watch
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Coast Guard must prevent the first lunar war in history. A lifelong Search-and-Rescuewoman, Coast Guard Captain Jane Oliver is ready for a peaceful retirement. But when tragedy strikes, Oliver loses her husband and her plans for the future, and finds herself thrust into a role she's not prepared for. Suddenly at the helm of the Coast Guard's elite SAR-1 lunar unit, Oliver is the only woman who can prevent the first lunar war in history, a conflict...
14) Central Station
Author
Publisher
Tachyon Pub
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris's ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated...
15) The invincible
Author
Publisher
Pro Auctore Wojciech Zemek
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the grand tradition of science fiction narrative represented by the best of H.G. Wells and Jules Verne, The Invincible describes the story of a space cruiser sent to an obscure planet to determine the fate of another ship whose communications with Earth have abruptly collapsed. On Regis III, Navigator Rohan and his crew encounter the classic quandary: what course of action can man take once he has limits of his knowledge? The question of inexplicable,...
16) Stars beyond
Author
Series
Stars uncharted series volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
"The crew of Another Road is back, closer than ever to the biggest score in the galaxy...if they can stay a step ahead of the Justice Department agents and Company men tracking them. An engineer with a fondness for weapons. A captain with no memory. An obsessive gene modder who loves to tinker. Meet the crew of Another Road. Josune, Roystan, and Nika have escaped the company thugs trying to kill them. They've gotten a new spaceship to replace The...
17) Resolute
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary must battle dangers both within and without the Alliance, in this exciting continuation of the New York Times bestselling series. Geary knows that some political factions in the Alliance were just trying to get rid of him when he was assigned to escort a diplomatic and scientific mission to the far reaches of humanity's expansion into the galaxy ... and beyond. But he views his mission as both a duty and an opportunity...
18) Memoria
Author
Series
Nova vita protocol volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The Kaiser Family helped the Nova Vita system avoid a catastrophic multi-planet war, one that the Kaisers might have accidentally caused in the first place. In their wake, two planets have been left devastated by ancient alien technology. Now, the Kaisers try to settle into their new lives as tenuous citizens of the serene water planet, Nibiru, but Scorpia Kaiser can never stay still. So, she takes another shady job. One that gives her a ship where...
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