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Out of the Silent Planet introduces Dr. Ransom and chronicles his abduction by a megalomaniacal physicist and his accomplice via space ship to the planet Malacandra. The two men are in need of a human sacrifice and Dr. Ransom would seem to fit the bill. Dr. Ransom escapes upon landing, though, and goes on the run, a stranger in a land that, like Jonathan Swift's Lilliput, is enchanting in its difference from Earth and instructive in its similarity....
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Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Tired of hiding in obscurity on Earth, Tina, the human clone of a brilliant alien tactician, pursues her destiny in space, but success is elusive until Tina and her best friend Rachel assemble a ragtag crew of humans and set out to save all the worlds.
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Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
562 pages ; 19 cm.
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English
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"The story line tells the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats, and the Navigators (the Spacing Guild), as well as a crucial battle for the future of the human race, in which reason faces off against fanaticism"--Amazon.
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Space trash volume 1
Publisher
Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
90 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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"Three teenagers attending school on the moon try to keep their boredom and resentments at bay as they stumble across an exciting secret that could change the course of their future"--
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Expanse volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
566 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core.
46) Black spire
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Star wars galaxy's edge volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"Walk the ancient streets, meet the colorful characters, and uncover the secret history of the upcoming expansion to the Disney Parks experience! After devastating losses at the hands of the First Order, General Leia Organa has dispatched her agents across the galaxy in search of allies, sanctuary, and firepower--and her top spy, Vi Moradi, may have just found all three."--
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In this pivotal prequel to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the heroes of the Resistance—Poe Dameron, General Leia Organa, Rey, and Finn—must fight back from the edge of oblivion.
The Resistance is in ruins. In the wake of their harrowing escape from Crait, what was once an army has been reduced to a handful of wounded heroes. Finn, Poe, Rey, Rose, Chewbacca, Leia Organa—their names are famous among the oppressed...
The Resistance is in ruins. In the wake of their harrowing escape from Crait, what was once an army has been reduced to a handful of wounded heroes. Finn, Poe, Rey, Rose, Chewbacca, Leia Organa—their names are famous among the oppressed...
48) Dark age
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Red rising novels volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 43
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English
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"A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he's an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy?
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Dune saga volume 12
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c1976
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
408 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
Description
The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and...
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Dune saga volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
779 p. ; 18 cm.
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English
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As the struggle against the thinking robots continues, Serena Butler's forces continue their battle and Selim Wormrider and his Fremen outlaws take the first step into becoming the fighters who would change history.
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Dune saga volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 32
Physical Desc
496 p. : maps, geneal. table ; 25 cm.
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English
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Emperor Shaddam IV of the Million Worlds intends to gain absolute power by using Ixian slaves to create a synthetic form of melange, the addictive spice that can only be found on the desert world of Dune--but Duke Leto Atreides has a bold plan to save them.
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Dune saga volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 37
Physical Desc
620 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After centuries of conflict with the thinking machines, the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the conflict is in sight. Unfortunately, in a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating populations of whole planets. Eventually, the war is decided in the apocalyptic Battle of Corrin.
53) An ancient peace
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Peacekeeper novels volume 1
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr had been the very model of a Confederation Marine. When she learned the truth about the war the Confederation was fighting, she left the military for good. But Torin could not walk away from preserving and protecting everything the Confederation represented. Instead, she drew together an elite corps of friends and allies to take on covert missions that the Justice Department and the Corps could not, or would not, officially...
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Peacekeeper volume 3
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
Warden Torin Kerr has put her past behind her and built a life away from the war and everything that meant. From the good, from the bad. From the heroics, from the betrayal. She's created a place and purpose for others like her, a way to use their training for the good of the Confederation. She has friends, family, purpose. Unfortunately, her past refuses to grant her the same absolution. Big Yellow, the ship form of the plastic aliens responsible...
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Dragonriders of Pern volume 16
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
434 p. : ill., map
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English
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The Red Star, that celestial curse whose eccentric orbit was responsible for Thread, has been shifted to a harmless orbit, and the current Threadfall will be the last. Technological marvels are changing the face of life on Pern. And the dragonriders, led by F'lessan, son of F'lar and Lessa and rider of bronze Golanth, and Tia, rider of green Zaranth, must forge a new place for themselves in a world that may no longer need them.
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English
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Perelandra continues the adventures of the extraordinary Dr. Ransom. Pitted against the most destructive of human weaknesses, temptation, the great man must battle evil on a new planet -- Perelandra -- when it is invaded by a dark force. Will Perelandra succumb to this malevolent being, who strives to create a new world order and who must destroy an old and beautiful civilization to do so? Or will it throw off the yoke of corruption and achieve a...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"In Dune: The Heir of Caladan, the climactic novel in the Caladan trilogy by New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, we step into the shoes of Paul Atreides. A not yet a man in years, he is about to enter a world he could never have imagined. The story that began with Duke Leto Atreides's rise to power, then continued with the consequences of Lady Jessica's betrayal, will now conclude with Paul becoming the leader that...
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Hainish volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
387 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.
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Outer planets novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"In the outer settlements of the human-occupied solar system, there are rumors about what was found deep under Neptune's frozen seas when a Hungarian billionaire's ship was lost with all hands. But the rumors are far more tame than the reality. When the billionaire's daughter mounts a mission to find the truth, her discoveries will up-end humanity's understanding of our origins on Earth"--
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Old Man's War universe volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
320 p.
Language
English
Description
Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up. That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game -- as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a...
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