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1) Saturn run
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Language
English
Description
"The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope--something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don't decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage...
Author
Series
Starlight's Shadow volume 3
Language
English
Description
Intergalactic recovery specialist Lexi Bowen must join forces with a charming Valovian teleporter to find a former member of her crew who has gone missing.
3) The deep sky
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"To save humanity, they left everything behind-except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect....
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears' failed colony on a distant planet. Faced with constant threats of starvation and destruction in the treacherous minefield of interstellar space, Jacklyn's crew has reached their breaking point. As unrest begins to spread throughout the ship's Wards, a new threat emerges, picking off crew...
6) Precursor
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"C.J. Cherryh returns to the universe of her acclaimed Foreigner trilogy -- with an epic tale of the survivors of a lost spacecraft stranded on a planet inhabited by a hostile, sentient race. The beginning of a second trilogy, Precursor follows a single human delegate living among aliens, who are just gaining access to space ..."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Alcon Publishing, Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A routine rescue mission leaves a team of US soldiers, rescued hostages, and a prisoner trapped above Earth in a suborbital craft...Lieutenant Art Burkett is called up to take part in a rescue mission. Three scientists have been kidnapped by the terrorist group Thieves in Law. The rescue is swift...But Thieves in Law are not the only people looking for them. Art and his team must fight an ever-growing threat before time runs out for them, and possibly...
8) Rama II
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam/Spectra Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Years ago, the enormous, enigmatic alien spacecraft called Rama sailed through our solar system as mind-boggling proof that life existed -- or had existed -- elsewhere in the universe. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-third century, another ship is discovered hurtling toward us. A crew of Earth's best and brightest minds is assembled to rendezvous with the massive vessel. They are armed with everything we know about Raman technology and culture. But...
Author
Series
Kystrom chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Refugee, criminal, and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can't refuse: life in prison, 'voluntary' military service--or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it's destroyed in a supernova...In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days and the terrible secret...
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 15
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When the Sprockets Academy Zoomers enter the Intergalactic Space Race, Zack and his friends are in for an epic race adventure across the galaxy. It's time to navigate through an underwater maze, fly around planetary rings, and blast through the stars! But when trouble stirs within the team, Zack must take charge. Can he lead them to victory? -- from Amazon.
Author
Series
Rama series volume 1
Publisher
Bantam/Spectra Books
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
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Description
Astronomers discover a huge, celestial object hurtling through space and after a space probe confirms that is not a natural object, send a space team to investigate.
At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. It is huge, weighing more than ten trillion tons. And it is hurtling through the solar system at inconceivable speed. Then a space probe confirms the unthinkable: Rama is no natural object. It...
13) The good soldier
Author
Publisher
Shadowpaw Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The Imperial Navy has long been at war. It is a well-oiled machine, a mighty galactic power in which nothing can go wrong. Enter Pre-Private Joseph Fux, self-proclaimed Idiot, Second Class. When Fux arrives on board the light frigate UPS Spitz, things immediately begin to go wrong. It's not Fux's fault. It never is. Accidents just happen when he's around, despite the best intentions. And as the always-cheerful Fux bungles his way through one job...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
On the moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent deep into our solar system. But before they can reach their destination, things begin to go very wrong.
En la Luna se desvela un enigma cuyas implicaciones son tan grandes que, por primera vez, se envía a hombres a las profundidades de nuestro sistema solar. Pero antes de que puedan llegar a su destino, las cosas empiezan a ir muy mal.
15) Ancestral night
Author
Series
White space volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence--with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big--just once--to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human and alien vessels. But when they make a shocking discovery about...
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Series
Star Wars novels. Alphabet squadron volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The daredevil Republic pilots of Alphabet return in this exciting new entry in the Star Wars: Alphabet Squadron trilogy. After their narrow victory over Shadow Wing, Alphabet Squadron is on the attack, hunting their adversaries within the Imperial Remnant. Shadow Wing is desperate for direction and leadership--and they find both in the iron will of Major Keize, their former commander and Yrica Quell's one-time mentor. As battle lines blur, Alphabet...
17) Treason
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
An unusually gifted man who has the power of self-healing and bodily regeneration as well as the ability to cause earthquakes and drain lakes is exiled on a primitive planet and leads a revolution against its Offworld oppressors.
18) Neptune
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the far reaches of the solar system, the outer planets-- billions of miles from Earth, unknown for millennia-- are being settled. Neptune, the ice giant, is swathed in clouds of hydrogen, helium, and methane and circled by rings of rock and dust. Three years ago Ilona Magyr's father, Miklos, disappeared while exploring the seas of Neptune. Everyone believes he is dead: crushed, frozen, or boiled alive in Neptune's turbulent seas. With legendary...
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