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1) Dune messiah
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better knownand fearedas the man christened MuadDib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throneand a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Fractalverse volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"July 25th, 2234. The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why. But they all carry the burdens of lives carved out on disparate colonies in the cruel cold of space. For some the mission is the dream of the lifetime, for others...
Author
Series
Rama volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sequel to: Rama II. During the 23rd century, three human cosmonauts learn of their destination and their challenge in a rendezvous with a Raman base.
Author
Series
Sparrow novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Father Emilio Sandoz, the only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Earth, has barely had time to recover before the Society of Jesus calls upon him for help in preparing another mission to Alpha Centauri.
7) Red moon
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It is twenty-five years since China established the first colony on the moon, and the lives of three people are about to collide. American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip there, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding. It is also the first visit to the moon for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts and influence,...
Author
Series
Secret projects volume 4
Language
English
Description
Running. Putting distance between himself and the relentless Night Brigade has been Nomad's strategy for years. Staying one or two steps ahead of his pursuers by skipping through the Cosmere from one world to the next. But now, his powers too depleted to escape, Nomad finds himself trapped on Canticle, a planet that will kill anyone who doesn't keep moving. Fleeing the fires of a sunrise that melts the very stones, he is instantly caught up in the...
Author
Series
Carve the mark volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
When Cyra's father Lazmet Noavek, a soulless tyrant thought to be dead, reclaims the throne, Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are desperate to stop him from igniting a barbaric war.
10) Anathem
Author
Language
English
Description
Raz, a mathematician, is among a cohort of secluded scientists and philosophers who are called upon to save the world from impending catastrophe.
11) Embassytown
Author
Language
English
Description
In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their...
12) Xenocide
Author
Series
Ender Wiggin volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lusitania seems to be a planet on which three intelligent species--humans, the pequininos, and the Hive Queen--can finally live together, until a virus dangerous to humans but vital to the pequininos is found, and the Starways Congress orders Lusitania and its inhabitants to be destroyed.
Author
Series
Hainish volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary’s mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose — and change — their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Exploring questions of psychology, society, and human emotion...
14) Alien planet
Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The dynamic meeting of solid science and futuristic simulation culminates in a dramatic exploration to another inhabited planet seven light years away. Alien Planet creates a realistic depiction of creatures on another world, where life is provable.
15) Semiosis
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches and waits. Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that humans are more than tools. Forced to land on a planet they aren't prepared for, human colonists rely on their limited resources to survive. The planet provides a lush but inexplicable landscape -- trees...
Author
Series
Teixcalaan novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
496 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass-still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire-face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone. For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. But once you look for life elsewhere, you realize it is not so simple. How do you find it over cosmic distances? What actually is life? As founding director of Cornell...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the age of 13, Pella Marsh emigrates with her family to the Planet of the Archbuilders. These enigmatic aborigines have names like Lonely Dumptruck and and Hiding Kneel--and a civilization that baffles and frightens their human visitors. As the spikily independent Pella becomes an uneasy envoy between two species, Girl in Landscape deftly interweaves themes of exploration and otherness, loss and sexual awakening.
Publisher
A & E Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 11 hrs. 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tour the surface of Earth's life-giving star. Mars may be the future of humanity - uses data collected from probes and robotic rovers. Scars on the planet's surface and in its fossil record illustrate the threat posed by meteorites, comets, and asteroids that routinely collide with Earth. Two and a half times the size of all the other planets in the solar system combined, and half a billion miles from Earth, Jupiter is a colossal riddle.
Our closest...
20) Interference
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
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."--
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