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Author
Series
Carve the mark volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a 'currentgift', a unique power meant to shape the future. While most benefit from their current gifts,...
2) Neptune
Author
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...
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"After fleeing her controlling and murderous family with her fiancée Vinh, Amara embarks on a colonization project, New Belaforme, along with her childhood friend, Jesse. The planet, beautiful and lethal, produces the Gray, a "self-cleaning" mechanism that New Belaforme's scientists are certain only attacks invasive organisms, consuming them. Humans have been careful to do nothing to call attention to themselves until a rival colony wakes the Gray....
4) Chrysalis
Author
Series
Project Nemesis volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Fire Lake's sophomore class must work together or die alone in a new era of planet Earth inhabited by otherworldly dangers and challenges"--
The 64 members of Fire Lake, Idaho's sophomore class have managed to survive the first two phases of the Program-- and each other. They alone have emerged into the dawn of a new era on Earth, into a Fire Lake valley that's full of otherworldly dangers and challenges. Staying alive in this broken world should...
Author
Series
From darkest skies volume 2
Publisher
Gollancz, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Keon has finally got over the death of his wife Alysha in a terrorist attack five years ago. The illegal AI copy of her - Liss - that he created to help him mourn has vanished, presumed destroyed. His life is back on track. But a deadly shooting in a police-guarded room in a high-security hospital threatens to ruin everything. Who got past the defences? Why did they kill the seemingly unimportant military officer who had been in a coma for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
We have waited generations for you... Syd Chambers knows that there's life on other planets because he's descended from it. His father was from a distant world called Denza and has been missing-presumed dead-for years. When Syd discovers a device his father left behind which shows not only that he's alive, but where he is, Syd must set out on a mission of his own. But along the way, he discovers a deadly, unbearable secret that could destroy Denza,...
7) Rogue planet
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The salvage vessel Cortés tracks the Lonely Orphan, a planet with no star system to call it's own. Somewhere on this hostile rock is a payload fit for a king. To attain it, the crew of the Cortés must brave razor rock, poisonous vapors, treacherous footing, and the most mind-numbing horrors imaginable. Struggling to stay alive, they are beset at every turn by horrors from their own nightmares. Now, they have discovered that they are not alone on...
Author
Series
Bitch Planet. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will hidden agendas, crooked guards, and the deadliest sport on (or off!) Earth take them to their maker?
9) Bewitched
Author
Series
Betwixt and between volume 2
Publisher
Darynda Jones
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Forty-something Defiance Dayne only recently discovered she comes from a long line of powerful witches. Added to that was the teensy, infinitesimal fact that she is what’s called a charmling. One of three on the entire planet. And there are other witches who will stop at nothing to steal her immense power, which would basically involve her unfortunate and untimely death. No one told her life after forty would mean having to learn new lifeskills—such...
10) 10,000 bones
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
On the planet Brink, calcium is cash. The element's scarcity led the world's government to declare it the official currency. In the decades since, the governments of other colonized worlds have suppressed shipments of calcium in order to maintain favorable exchange rates, while Brink's Commerce Board has struggled to negotiate importation quotas to keep the population alive and growing. Taryn Dare is a Collections Agent, a specialized detective tasked...
Author
Series
X-O Manowar volume 7
Publisher
Valiant Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The past catches up with Earth's Visigoth guardian! Aric of Dacia may have left Planet Gorin behind, but its people still remember the ruin they felt in his wake...and so do the bounty hunters who sought to end his barbaric reign! Now, they've arrived on our world to finish the job they started - and this time, they don't plan on taking X-O Manowar alive! -- from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It is eight years after Colleen Cavanaugh's home world was invaded by the Derichets, a tyrannical alien race bent on exploiting the planet's mineral resources. Most of her family died in the war, and she now lives alone in the city. Aside from her acquaintances at the factory where she toils for the Derichets, Colleen makes a single friend in Jann, a member of the violent group of rebels known as the Chromatti. One day Colleen receives shocking news:...
Author
Series
Generations trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In Alive, Scott Sigler introduced readers to an unforgettable young heroine and a mysterious new world reminiscent of those of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Red Rising. Now he expands his singular vision in the next thrilling novel of this powerful sci-fi adventure series"--
"M. Savage -- or Em, as she is called-- has made a bewildering and ominous discovery. She and the other young people she was chosen to lead awoke in strange coffins with...
Author
Series
Descender volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"One young robot's struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. A rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey that pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling space opera from the creators of Trillium, Sweet Tooth, and Little Gotham. This third volume collects issues #12-16of the best-selling, critically acclaimed series." --
15) Gone
Author
Publisher
DSTLRY Media Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
On an impoverished and distant planet, where menial workers scratch out a living resupplying starships, the best place to be is GONE...and that's exactly where 13-year-old ABI wants to be. Along with her street-tough friends, Abi stows away on a colossal luxury space-liner for a chance at a better life. Unbeknownst to her, some of her "friends'' are not who they seem. Abi suddenly finds herself branded a saboteur as she desperately struggles to evade...
16) A crash of fate
Author
Publisher
Disney + Lucas Film Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Izzy and Jules were childhood friends, climbing the spires of Batuu, inventing silly games, and dreaming of adventures they would share one day. Then, Izzy's family left abruptly, without even a chance to say goodbye. Izzy's life became one of constant motion, traveling from one world to the next, until her parents were killed and she became a low-level smuggler to make ends meet. Jules remained on Batuu, eventually becoming a farmer like his father,...
17) Black star
Author
Publisher
Abrams Comicarts Megascope
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Black Star is a debut graphic novel by Eric Anthony Glover, based on his original unproduced screenplay, and illustrated by Arielle Jovellanos. In the future, interstellar travel is past its prime and sending shuttles beyond our solar system -- even for vital scientific research -- is a life-threatening gamble. However, in order to retrieve samples of an alien flower that may hold the key to saving countless lives, Harper North and her crew of scientists...
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, it begins to tell the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.
Author
Series
Space Holes volume 1
Publisher
CamCat Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Saving an alien planet is nothing compared to meeting your sales quota. Marcus Aimond, untrained tag-along aboard humanity's first intergalactic exploratory commerce vessel, has a singular mission: sell off-brand misprinted merchandise. When the rookie and his crew encounter the Nerelkor, a frog-like civilization, he is thrust head-first into an alien civil war. The opposing factions, Rejault and Dinasc, are stuck in an ill-fated feud driven by deep-rooted...
20) Nyxia uprising
Author
Series
Nyxia triad volume 3
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Emmett and the Genesis team must join forces with a surprising set of allies if they're ever to make it home alive. Desperate to return home to Earth and claim the reward Babel promised, Emmett and the Genesis team join forces with the Imago. Babel's initial attack left their home city in ruins, but that was just part of the Imago's plan. They knew one thing Babel didn't. This world is coming to an end. Eden's two moons are on a collision course...
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