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  • To sleep in a sea of stars
    Author:
    Paolini, Christopher
    Summary:

    " Narrator Jennifer Hale's outstanding performance brings this story of alien invasion to life...Hale's range of differentiation is masterly as she animates all the quirky characters Kira meets. From the rough, snarky...
  • There before the chaos
    Author:
    Wagers, K. B.
    Summary:

    Hail Bristol: former runaway princess, interplanetary gunrunner, Empress of Indrana. When the Empire's closest ally asks her to intervene in a galactic military crisis, she embarks on the highest stakes diplomatic mission Indrana...
  • The knife of never letting go
    Author:
    Ness, Patrick
    Summary:

    Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World...
  • The Isis trilogy
    Author:
    Hughes, Monica
    Summary:

    The Keeper of the Isis Light is the first book in Monica Hughes' acclaimed trilogy, and it is the story of Olwen Pendennis, the Keeper of the Isis Light. She and her companion, Guardian, have lived alone on the remote planet Isis since...
  • The final six
    Author:
    Monir, Alexandra
    Summary:

    Set in the near future, this action-packed YA novel-already optioned by Sony Pictures-will take readers out of this world and on a quest to become one of six teens sent on a mission to Jupiter's moon. This is the next must-read for fans...
  • The city in the middle of the night
    Author:
    Anders, Charlie Jane
    Summary:

    "If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives." January is a dying planet--divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless...
  • Tangled planet
    Author:
    Blair, Kate
    Summary:

    It's taken 400 years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination. Beta Earth is an uninhabited, untouched planet that seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa has to colonise with her crewmates. The first night...
  • Singularity sky
    Author:
    Stross, Charles
    Summary:

    In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the Eschaton altered the course of humankind. New civilizations were founded across the vastness of space. Now...
  • Seed seeker
    Author:
    Sargent, Pamela
    Summary:

    After Ship settled humans on planet Home, it promised to return. Over time, and with conflict, the colony divided. When a light appears in the sky, one side believes it's Ship, but the others are silent. Whatever it is, life is about to...
  • Red rising
    Author:
    Brown, Pierce
    Summary:

    Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow."-- Scott Sigler Pierce Brown' s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender' s Game by Orson Scott Card. " I live for the dream that my...
  • Red Mars
    Author:
    Robinson, Kim Stanley
    Summary:

    For centuries, the red planet has enticed the people of Earth. Now an international group of scientists has colonized Mars. Leaving Earth forever, these 100 people have traveled nine months to reach their new home. This is the...
  • Planet of exile
    Author:
    Le Guin, Ursula K.
    Summary:

    Relations are strained between the planet Werel's native people and its colony of stranded Earthmen, but they share a common genetic heritage as well as common enemies. Will they join forces or be annihilated?
  • Persepolis Rising : The expanse series, book 7
    Author:
    Corey, James S. A.
    Summary:

    An old enemy returns. In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship...
  • Monsters of men
    Author:
    Ness, Patrick
    Summary:

    As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
  • Mission to Mars : my vision for space exploration
    Author:
    David, Leonard, Aldrin, Buzz
    Summary:

    Legendary "space statesman" Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. He has a vision, and in this book he plots out the path he proposes--one...
  • Luna : wolf moon
    Author:
    McDonald, Ian
    Summary:

    Corta Hélio, one of the five family-corporations that rule the moon, has fallen. Only Lady Sun suspects that the last appointed heir, Lucas Corta, is not dead. Corta Hélio needs allies; and to find them the fleeing son undertakes an...
  • Luna : new moon
    Author:
    McDonald, Ian
    Summary:

    In the moon's near-feudal society, you must fight for every inch you want to gain. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. Now, at the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation surrounded by the many enemies she made during...
  • Iron sunrise
    Author:
    Stross, Charles
    Summary:

    Planet Moscow is vaporized by an unnatural star explosion, prompting those who escaped to counterattack the likely culprit--planet New Dresden of the neighboring system. But New Dresden wasn't to blame, and as worlds go to war, an...
  • Golden son : book II of the red rising trilogy
    Author:
    Brown, Pierce
    Summary:

    Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class,...
  • Glasshouse
    Author:
    Stross, Charles
    Summary:

    Stross offers a Kafkaesque tale in which a man, Robin, awakes in a clinic with severe memory loss. Finding himself targeted by a deadly opponent, Robin takes a calculated gamble and volunteers to be one of the subjects of an unusual...

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