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61) Before Mars
Author
Series
Planetfall novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After months of travel, Anna Kubrin finally arrives on Mars for her new job as a geologist and de facto artist in residence--and already she feels she is losing the connection with her husband and baby at home on Earth. In her room on the base, Anna finds a mysterious note, painted in her own hand, warning her not to trust the colony psychiatrist. A note she can't remember painting. When she finds a footprint in a place that the colony AI claims...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
January is a dying planet--divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk. But life inside the cities is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands outside. Sophie, a student and reluctant revolutionary, is supposed to be dead, after being exiled into the night. Saved only by forming an unusual...
63) Iron sunrise
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"A G2 star doesn't just explode--not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event, have launched a counterattack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn't responsible, and as the deadly missles approach their target, Rachel Mansour, agent for the interests of Old Earth, is assigned to find out who was. Opposing her is an unknown--and...
64) Luna: new moon
Author
Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Moon wants to kill you. Whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or you just get caught up in a fight between the Moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the Moon's near feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon's newest "dragon," Adriana has wrested control of the Moon's Helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie...
Author
Series
Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti volume 2
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Mossa has returned to Valdegeld on a missing person’s case, for which she’ll once again need Pleiti’s insight. Seventeen students and staff members have disappeared from Valdegeld University—yet no one has noticed. The answers to this case may lie on the moon of Io—Mossa’s home—and the history of Jupiter’s original settlements during humanity's exodus from Earth. But Pleiti’s faith in her life’s work as a scholar of the past has...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two generations ago, Earth's colonies and space stations broke free of their home planet's tyrannical rule. Earth's Central Governance is now flexing its power to regain control of its lost assets. The Order of Saint Rita--whose mission is to provide aid and mercy to those in need--bore witness to and defied Central Governance's atrocities on the remote planet Phyosonga III. The sisters have been running ever since, staying under the radar while...
Author
Series
System Divine volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Three months after the Patriarche was beheaded, Laterre seems to be flourishing under General Bonnefaçon, but as dangerous rifts threaten the peace, Alouette, Marcellus, and Chatine reunite.
Author
Series
Remembrance War series volume 2
Publisher
Flame Tree Press, an imprint of Flame Tree Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Tajen's mission to seek aid from the Kelvaki Assembly is cut short when the Zhen invade Earth. Now he, Liam, and Kiri must return to Earth and liberate the colony from brutal occupation. When Tajen learns the Zhen plan to destroy a human fleet amassing in preparation to help Earth, he and his crew must escape the planet once more and warn them.
Author
Series
Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons--five families who control the Moon's leading industrial companies. Each clan does everything in their power to claw their way to the top of the food chain--marriages of convenience, corporate espionage, kidnapping, and mass assassinations. Through ingenious political manipulation and sheer force of will, Lucas Cortas rises from the ashes of corporate defeat and seizes control of...
70) Paradise-1
Author
Series
Red space volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Paradise-1. Earth's first deep space colony. For thousands of people, it was an opportunity for a new life. Until it went dark. No communication has been received from the colony for months. And it falls to Firewatch inspector Alexandra Petrova and the crew of the Artemis to investigate. What they find is more horrifying than anything they could have imagined"--
71) Elysium fire
Author
Series
Inspector Dreyfus novels volume 2
Publisher
Orbit/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives. Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction...
72) Fallen dragon
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, corporations have created their own militaries. On a rebellious impulse, Lawrence joined one, but he now sees its ruthless exploitation. His only hope for escape is to buy his place into a better corporation. When his platoon is sent to a distant colony to quell the Resistance, it seems like a stroke of amazing fortune. To get the money he needs, he plans to rob the colony of their fabled gemstone -- the Fallen Dragon. However,...
Author
Series
Poseidon's children volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The award-winning author of Blue Remembered Earth continues his saga as the next generation of the Akinya family crosses interstellar space seeking humanity's future Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary space explorer Eunice and heir to the family empire, is just one among millions on a long one way journey towards a planet they hope to call their new home. For Chiku, the journey is a personal one, undertaken to ensure that the Akinya...
74) Ender in exile
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin volume 6
Language
English
Description
At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
Author
Series
Liaden universe novels volume 20
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"A series milestone as we welcome the twentieth amazing entry in the nationally best-selling Liaden Universe.
"The luck runs rough around Theo Waitley. Not only are people trying to kill her and capture the self-aware intelligent ship Bechimo to whom Theo is bonded, they're also trying to arrest her crew members. No wonder Theo and her crew needed a break and retired to what Bechimo refers to as 'safe space.' Unfortunately, safe space may not be...
76) The 100
Author
Series
The 100 series volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When 100 juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth, they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in a dangerous new world.
77) Abandoned
Author
Series
Donovan novels volume 2
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Supervisor Kalico Aguila has bet everything on a fragile settlement far south of Port Authority. There, she has carved a farm and mine out of wilderness. But Donovan is closing in. When conditions couldn't get worse, a murderous peril descends out of Donovan's sky--one that will leave Kalico bleeding and shattered. Talina Perez gambles her life and reputation in a bid to atone for ruthlessly murdering a woman's husband years ago. Ironically, saving...
78) What rough beast
Author
Series
Remembrance War series volume 3
Publisher
Flame Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As the Zhen Empire descends into civil war, Tajen, Liam, and Katherine each have their own part to play in the final conflict between the human race and the Zhen Empire. As Tajen searches the outer regions in an attempt to find and recruit Zhen deserters to his side, Katherine heads for Marauder space to seek out technology their Tabran allies need. Liam, believing his two best friends dead, must keep the human fleet alive as it is pursued across...
79) Chasm City
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Tanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake--until the day a woman in his care was blown away by Argent Reivich, a vengeful young postmortal. Tanner's pursuit of Reivich takes him across light-years of space to Chasm City, the domed human settlement on the otherwise inhospitable planet of Yellowstone. But Chasm City is not what it was. The one-time high-tech utopia has become a Gothic nightmare: a nanotechnological virus has...
80) After the crown
Author
Series
Indranan war volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Former gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to fill her rightful position in the palace. With her sisters and parents murdered, the Indranan empire is on the brink of war. Hail must quickly make alliances with nearby worlds if she has any hope of surviving her rule. When peace talks turn violent and Hail realizes she's been betrayed, she must rely on her old gunrunning ways to get out of trouble. With help from...
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