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Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony's erudite university-and Mossa's former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth's pre-collapse ecosystems. Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti's assistance in her...
43) Retrograde
Author
Series
Retrograde volume 1
Publisher
John Joseph Adams/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Mankind has long dreamed of reaching out to live on other planets, and with the establishment of the Mars Endeavour colony, that dream has become reality. The fledgling colony consists of 120 scientists, astronauts, medical staff, and engineers. Buried deep underground, they're protected from the harsh radiation that sterilizes the surface of the planet. The colony is prepared for every eventuality except one--what happens when disaster strikes Earth?"--...
44) Star bringer
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The sun is dying...and it's happening way too fast. With the clock ticking, the Nine Planets' only hope of survival rests on a fancy space station and the alien artifact it's carrying. Which is why it really sucks when some jackass doesn't want the universe saved and blows that station up-- while you're still on it. So if your only choices are flaming death or stealing a flying hunk of space junk--you pick that busted-ass spaceship. Even if it leaves...
45) Sky dragons
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 30
Publisher
Del Rey Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Xhinna, the first female Weyrleader, and her group of young dragonriders struggle to rebuild the decimated dragon population and protect the world from a deadly alien spore by collecting dragon eggs and protecting baby dragons from predators and saboteurs.
Author
Series
System Divine volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping reimagining of Les Misérables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre"--
47) Manifold: Space
Author
Series
Manifold trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind by an alien civilization: a gateway that functions as a kind of quantum transporter, allowing virtually instantaneous travel over the vast distances of interstellar space.
48) Proxima
Author
Series
Proxima novels volume 1
Publisher
Roc, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Mankind's future in this galaxy could be all but infinite.... There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years--and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of humanity. But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. There is no glamor that accompanies it, like being the first man on the moon, nor is there...
Author
Series
Indranan war volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Hail Bristol has made a name for herself in the galaxy for everything except what she was born to do: rule the Indranan Empire. When she is dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place as the only remaining heir, she finds that trading her ship for a palace is her most dangerous move yet.
50) Goliath
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of...
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 6
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"A new tale of the ... Old man's war universe"--Jacket.
Hugo-award winning author, John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with The End of All Things, the direct sequel to 2013's The Human Division Humans expanded into space...only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth...
52) 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.
54) Interference
Author
Series
Semiosis duology volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission. But the Earthlings misunderstand the nature of the Pax settlement and its real leader. Even as Stevland attempts to protect his human tools, a more insidious enemy than the Earthlings makes itself known. Stevland is not the apex species on Pax. -- from Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing, Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The last interstellar colony ship is down to its final batch of humans after the robots in charge unhelpfully deleted the rest. But rebooting a species and training them for the arduous task of colonisation isn't easy - especially when the planet below is filled with monsters, the humans are more interested in asking questions than learning, and the robots are all programmed to kill each other. But the fate of humanity rests on creating a new civilization...
Author
Series
Venus ascendant volume 1
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Life can exist anywhere. And anywhere there is life, there is home. In the swirling clouds of Venus, the families of La Colonie live on floating plant-like trawlers, salvaging what they can in the fierce acid rain and crackling storms. Outside is dangerous, but humankind's hold on the planet is fragile and they spend most of their days simply surviving. But Venus carries its own secrets, too. In the depths, there is a wind that shouldn't exist. And...
57) Ultima
Author
Series
Proxima novels volume 2
Publisher
ROC, Published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
On the planet of Per Ardua, alien artifacts were discovered-hatches that allowed humans to step across light-years of space as if they were stepping into another room. But this newfound freedom has consequences.... As humanity discovers the real nature of the universe, a terrifying truth comes to light. We all have countless pasts converging in this present-and our future is terrifyingly finite. There are minds in the universe that are billions of...
58) Planetfall
Author
Series
Planetfall novels volume 1
Language
English
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"From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity's future might be its undoing... Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi...
59) No way
Author
Series
Frank Kitteridge novels volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"XO, the greedy and ultimately murderous corporate architects of humanity's first Mars base, made a costly mistake...they left Frank Kittredge alive. And now XO will do anything to keep their secrets safe. If there's one thing in Frank's favor, it's this, he's always been prepared to go to the extreme to get the job done. That's how he ended up on Mars in the first place. It just might be his ticket back. In this sequel to the terrifying sci-fi thriller,...
Author
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Bren Cameron, diplomat in residence, usually represents the ruler of the atevi state. But Ilisidi, the dowager, has been known to borrow his services from time to time--and she has her own notions how to solve the simmering hostilities in the south of the atevi continent, playing one problem against another.
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