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1) Redshirts
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It's a prestige posting,and Andrew is thrilled all the more to be assigned to the ship's Xenobiology laboratory. Life couldn't be better until Andrew begins to pick up on the fact that (1) every Away Mission involves some kind of lethal confrontation with alien forces, (2) the ship's captain, its chief science...
2) Fuzzy nation
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jack Holloway works alone, for reasons he doesn't care to talk about. Hundreds of miles from ZaraCorp's headquarters on-planet, 178 light-years from the corporation's headquarters on Earth, Jack is content as an independent contractor, prospecting and surveying at his own pace. As for his past, that's not up for discussion. Then, in the wake of an accidental cliff collapse, Jack discovers a seam of unimaginably valuable jewels, to which he manages...
Author
Series
Interdependency novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Interdependency, humanity's interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible, is disappearing, leaving entire star systems stranded. When it goes, human civilization may go with it -- unless desperate measures can be taken. Emperox Grayland II, the leader of the Interdependency, is ready to take those measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But nothing...
Author
Series
Interdependency novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible ― until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that noT one human outpost can survive without the others. It’s a hedge...
Author
Series
Interdependency novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Last Emperox is the thrilling conclusion to the award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling Interdependency series, an epic space opera adventure from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The collapse of The Flow, the interstellar pathway between the planets of the Interdependency, has accelerated. Entire star systems--and billions of people--are becoming cut off from the rest of human civilization. This collapse was foretold through...
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Humans expanded into space... only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement... for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more. Now the Colonial Union is living on borrowed time -- a couple of decades at most,...
Author
Series
Old man's war volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce -- and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place. So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for our new enemies, should we let them get close enough) and to stake our own...
Author
Series
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...
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The people of Earth now know that the human Colonial Union has kept them ignorant of the dangerous universe around them. For generations the CU had defended humanity against hostile aliens, deliberately keeping Earth an ignorant backwater and a source of military recruits. Now the CU's secrets are known to all. Other alien races have come on the scene and formed a new alliance -- an alliance against the Colonial Union. And they've invited the people...
10) Zoe's tale
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Meet Zoe Boutin-Perry. Daughter. Colonist. Icon. The only hope for the people she loves. Sixteen years old. Zoe thought when her parents were selected to lead a new colony world, that the three of them would begin a new life among that stars but the colony isn't what it seems. Zoe, her family and her fellow colonists are unwilling thrust front and center in a struggle between the human Colonial Union and the alien Conclave, and there's no guarantee...
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human qualms. The universe is a dangerous place for humanity -- and it's about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion...
12) Lock in
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent -– and nearly five million souls in the United States alone –- the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world...
13) Head on
Author
Series
Lock in novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it. Until a star...
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