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1) The invasion
Author
Series
Animorphs. Main volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As Andalite is dying, he gives Jake, Cassie, Marco, Tobias, and Rachel the power to "morph"--to transform into some of the most dangerous creatures on Earth, in an attempt to save humanity from a silent attack.
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...
3) Revenant gun
Author
Series
Machineries of empire volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Shuos Jedao is awake... and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet--a nobody--in the body of an old man; a general in command of an elite force. And he's the most feared, and reviled, man in the galaxy. Jedao carries orders from Hexarch Nirai Kujen to re-conquer the fractured pieces of the hexarchate. But he has no memory of ever being a soldier, let alone a general, and the Kel soldiers under his command hate him for a massacre he...
Author
Series
Ringworld volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Strange events are happening on Ringworld, calling adventurer Louis Wu back into service, and revealing the need for one central Protector to sit on the Ringworld throne.
Author
Series
Machineries of empire volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Kel Cheris is possessed by a long-dead traitor general. Together they must face the rivalries of the hexarchate and a potentially devastating invasion. "When the hexarchate's gifted young captain Kel Cheris summoned the ghost of the long-dead General Shuos Jedao to help her put down a rebellion, she didn't reckon on his breaking free of centuries of imprisonment - and possessing her. Even worse, the enemy Hafn are invading, and Jedao takes...
6) The swarm
Author
Series
Second formic war volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was...
7) 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...
Author
Series
Machineries of empire volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for her unconventional tactics, Kel Command gives her a chance to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles from the heretics. Cheris’s career isn’t the only thing at stake: if the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next.
Cheris’s best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 9
Language
English
Description
The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series.
“An all-time genre classic.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Hugo Award Winner for Best Series
The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the...
“An all-time genre classic.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Hugo Award Winner for Best Series
The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 9
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
518 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight...
Author
Series
Salvation sequence volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
493 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The comparative utopia of twenty-third century Earth is about to go dreadfully awry when a seemingly benign alien race is abruptly revealed to be one of the worst threats humanity has ever faced. Driven by an intense religious extremism, the Olyix are determined to bring everyone to their version of god as they see it. But they may have met their match in humanity, who are not about to go gently into that good night or spend the rest of their days...
12) Spaceside
Author
Series
Planetside volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
247 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Witness the ... final chapter of the Skywalker saga with the official novelization of Star wars, the rise of Skywalker, including expanded scenes and additional content not seen in theaters"--Publisher marketing.
14) 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...
Author
Series
Salvation sequence volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
513 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The survivors of a human race under attack by hostile aliens who would claim the planet for an apocalyptic deity orchestrate a defensive strategy millennia in the making.
Author
Series
Hyperion volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples.
17) Planetside
Author
Series
Planetside volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
A seasoned military officer uncovers a deadly conspiracy on a distant, war-torn planet in this debut by a retired army officer. "A tough, authentic-feeling story that starts out fast and accelerates from there."--Jack Campbell, author of "Ascendant." Original.inal.
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
611 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of...
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