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241) Divergence
Author
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The overthrow of the Atevi head of state, Tabini-aiji, and the several moves of enemies even since his restoration, have prompted major changes in the Assassins' Guild, which has since worked to root out its seditious elements - a clandestine group they call the Shadow Guild. With the Assassins now rid of internal corruption, with the birth of Tabini's second child, and with the appointment of an heir, stability seems to have returned to the Atevi...
242) Babylon's ashes
Author
Series
Expanse volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The sixth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series from Syfy! A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien...
243) Contact
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cosmos and renowned astronomer Carl Sagan's international bestseller about the discovery of an advanced civilization in the depths of space remains the "greatest adventure of all time" (Associated Press).
The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension. When a signal is discovered that seems to come from far beyond our solar system, a multinational team of scientists decides to find the...
The future is here...in an adventure of cosmic dimension. When a signal is discovered that seems to come from far beyond our solar system, a multinational team of scientists decides to find the...
Author
Series
Star Wars: Choose your destiny volume 2
Star Wars High Reppblic volume 3
Star Wars Choose your destiny volume 2
Star Wars High Reppblic volume 3
Star Wars Choose your destiny volume 2
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertaiment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The saga continues with a new installment as the Jedi mount a rescue while preparing for war.
245) Blindsight
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Two months after the Earth is taken over by an alien species, a space probe detects a faint signal from the edge of the solar system and attempts to make contact, despite the dangers the signal hints at, relying on a linguist with multiple personalities to make the first contact and attempt a peace agreement.
247) Solaris
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Upon landing at an interplanetary station, Kris Kelvin discovers that an advanced power has taken over.
The first of Lem's novels to be published in America and now considered a classic, "Solaris" raises a question: Can one truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within?
Author
Series
Sun eater volume 1
Publisher
DAW BOOKS, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It was not his war. On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a hero: the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from the sky. They remember him as a monster: the devil who destroyed a sun, casually annihilating four billion human lives--even the Emperor himself--against Imperial orders. But Hadrian was not a hero. He was not a monster....
249) Barbarian's touch
Author
Series
Ice planet barbarians volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lila has never been more frightened in her life, but when Rokan appears, everything changes. When I wake up on the ice planet, I'm scared of everything: This place is cold, silent, and the locals look more like blue devils than aliens. To make matters worse, one of the strangers decides I'm going to be his girlfriend and kidnaps me away from my sister. I'm completely and utterly alone. What's a girl to do? Well, this girl escapes. Of course, that...
250) Betrayer
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After the civil war among the alien atevi has ended, Tabini-aiji, ruler of the Western Association, and his son, Cajeiri, return to Bujavid and face threats from rebels who remain loyal to the opposition.
251) Elder race
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living...
252) Sundiver
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
Mankind encounters conflicts among the inhabitants of the universe, as brave individuals prepare to journey into the boiling inferno of the sun.
Author
Series
Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 3
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Banking on a short, victorious war to replenish their depleted treasury, the ruling class of the People's Republic of Haven do not count on coming up against Captain Honor Harrington and the Royal Manticoran Navy.
254) Dragonseye
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 17
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Weyrs and Holds struggle to ward off the second coming of the Red Star and the deadly Silver Thread with dwindling technology.
255) Grass
Author
Series
Marjorie Westriding trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books/Spectra
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Generations ago, humans fled to the cosmic anomaly known as Grass. Over time, they evolved a new and intricate society. But before humanity arrived, another species had already claimed Grass for its own. It, too, had developed a culture. . . . Now, a deadly plague is spreading across the stars. No world save Grass has been left untouched. Marjorie Westriding Yrarier has been sent from Earth to discover the secret of the planet's immunity. Amid the...
257) These burning stars
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Jun Ironway--hacker, con artist, and occasional thief--has gotten her hands on a piece of contraband that could set her up for life: proof that implicates the powerful Nightfoot family in a planet-wide genocide seventy-five years ago. The Nightfoots control the precious sevite that fuels interplanetary travel through three star systems. And someone is sure to pay handsomely for anything that could break their hold. Of course, anything valuable is...
258) Sisterhood of Dune
Author
Series
Dune novels. Schools of Dune volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Decades after the Battle of Corrin destroys the thinking machines and establishes Faykan Butler as the first Imperium Emperor, war hero Vor turns his back on political descendants who blame him for their downfall while Gilbertus Albans hides an unbelievable secret and the Butlerian movement sweeps through the known universe intent on destroying technology.
259) Excession
Author
Series
Culture Universe series volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen is swept into a vast conspiracy that could lead the universe to the brink of annihilation when he is selected to investigate the disappearance of an ancient star.
Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old mystery: the sudden...
260) Glorious
Author
Series
Bowl of Heaven volume 3
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Audacious astronauts encounter bizarre, sometimes deadly life forms, and strange, exotic, cosmic phenomena, including miniature black holes, dense fields of interstellar plasma, powerful gravity-emitters, and spectacularly massive space-based, alien-built labyrinths. Tasked with exploring this brave, new, highly dangerous world, they must also deal with their own personal triumphs and conflicts.
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