" 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...
Space colonies
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Author:Paolini, ChristopherSummary: - 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 has...
- Author:Older, MalkaSummary:
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle. On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on...
- Author:Holm, Jennifer L.Summary:
Blast off with New York Times bestselling and Newbery Honor-winning Jennifer L. Holm's out-of-this-world new novel about a kid raised on Mars who learns that he can't be held back by the fears of the grown-ups around him. Bell has spent...
- Author:Pournelle, Jerry, Barnes, Steven, Niven, LarrySummary:
Light years from Earth, colonists land on a planet they name Avalon. It seems like a paradise, until native creatures savagely attack. It will take every bit of intelligence, courage, and military-style discipline to survive.
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Author:Ness, PatrickSummary: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...
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Author:Hughes, MonicaSummary: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...
- Author:Asimov, IsaacSummary:
In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The...
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Author:Monir, AlexandraSummary: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...
- Author:England, M. K.Summary:
The Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this YA sci-fi adventure by debut author M. K. England.
Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it’s not exactly a surprise when he’s kicked out of...
- Author:Anders, Charlie JaneSummary:
"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...
- Author:Wagner, Richard, Zubrin, RobertSummary:
The Case for Mars explains step-by-step how we can use present-day technology to send humans to Mars within ten years.
- Author:de Bodard, AlietteSummary:
The Citadel of Weeping Pearls: The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting-edge technology and esoteric sciences - its inhabitants capable of teleporting themselves anywhere, its weapons small and...
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Author:Blair, KateSummary: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...
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Author:Gibbs, StuartSummary:Now a winner of a Parents' Choice Gold Award! It's a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School. Like his fellow lunarnauts-otherwise known as Moonies-living on...
- Author:Tesh, EmilySummary:
"Sena Bryer delivers a cinematic performance of Tesh's exhilarating space opera. Bryer's full-bodied characterizations—gruff Mags, Kyr's quietly rage-filled squadmates, and a sweetly naïve but powerful alien named...
- Author:Rather, LinaSummary:
The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina Rather's debut novella, Sisters of the Vast Black. Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the...
- Author:Rather, LinaSummary:
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...
- Author:Stross, CharlesSummary:
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...
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Author:Sargent, PamelaSummary: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...
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