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1) Eversion
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Doctor Silas Coade tries to keep his crew safe while figuring out why maritime disasters keep happening to him in different centuries in a time and space adventure from the author of Revelation Space"--
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
That thing is growing again. We must destroy it. The time to act is now...With these words begins Gideon Crew's latest, most dangerous, most high-stakes assignment yet. Failure will mean nothing short of the end of humankind on earth. Five years ago, the mysterious and inscrutable head of Effective Engineering Solutions, Eli Glinn, led a mission to recover a gigantic meteorite--the largest ever discovered--from a remote island off the coast of South...
Author
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 468 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Biologist Julie E. Czerneda's new standalone science fiction novel, To Each This World follows a desperate mission to reconnect with long lost sleeper ships, sent centuries earlier from Earth to settle distant worlds. A trio of Humans must work with their mysterious alien allies to rescue any descendants they can find on those worlds. Something is out there, determined to claim the cosmos for itself, and only on Earth will Humans be safe. Or will...
Author
Series
Wormwood volume 1
Publisher
Orbit, an imprint of Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless--people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. A sensitive, he can navigate the massive psychic space created by the dome. But when something within the dome begins killing other sensitives, Kaaro must...
5) Breach
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the cusp of fatherhood, a junior mechanic aboard an interstellar ark to New Earth must outwit a malevolent cosmic terror intent on using the spaceship as a weapon.
Author
Series
Alien huntress volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Old man's war universe volume 6
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book
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,...
Series
Publisher
Epic Pictures
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious and dangerous whirlpool appears in the tropics of the Atlantic Ocean, astronauts Belka and Strelka are sent to investigate. With the help of their good friends, Belka and Strelka must once again act heroically and complete a daring mission to save the planet along with the distant home of their new alien friends.
9) Stringers
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A genius is abducted by an alien bounty-hunter for the location of a powerful inter-dimensional object. Trouble is, he can't remember a thing. One thing he knows is the location of the Chime. What it is or why it's important, he can't say. But this knowledge is about to get him in a whole heap of trouble, as a trash-talking, flesh construct bounty hunter is on his tail and looking to sell him to the highest bidder.
Author
Series
Lorien legacies volume 7
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
467 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Mogadorian invasion has come to Earth, and they have all but won the battle for our planet. Their warships loom over our most populous cities--like New York City, Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing, and New Delhi--and no army will risk making a move against them. The Garde are all that stand in their way . . . but they are no longer alone in this fight. Human teens from across the globe, like John Smith’s best friend, Sam Goode, have begun to develop...
Author
Language
English
Description
During World War II, teenager Evelyn Roe is sent to manage the family farm in rural North Carolina, where she finds what she takes to be a badly burned soldier on their property. She rescues him, and it quickly becomes clear he is not a man...and not one of us. The rescued body recovers at an unnatural speed, and just as fast, Evelyn and Adam fall deeply in love. The author reveals the exhilarating, terrifying mystery inherent in all relationships:...
12) Arrival
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When mysterious spacecraft touch down around the world, a team, including linguist Louise Banks, is brought together to investigate. As mankind teeters on the verge of global war, Banks and the team race against time for answers, and to find them, she will take a chance that could threaten her life, and quite possibly humanity.
Series
Resident alien volume Season 1
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (453 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A comedic sci-fi drama based on the Dark Horse comic book series of the same name, this show follows a crash-landed alien who must take on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor and somehow find a way to fit in with the local human population. While attempting to complete his secret mission on Earth, he is forced to consider the possibility that humans might be worth saving after all.
Author
Series
Search for Wondla volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Living in isolation with a robot on what appears to be an alien world populated with bizarre life forms, a twelve-year-old human girl called Eva Nine sets out on a journey to find others like her. Features "augmented reality" pages, in which readers with a webcam can access additional information about Eva Nine's world.
Author
Series
Yesterday's kin trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the Aliens left Earth, humanity succeeds in building a ship, Friendship, to follow them home to Kindred. Aboard are a crew of scientists, diplomats, and a squad of Rangers to protect them. But when the Friendship arrives, they find nothing they expected. No interplanetary culture, no industrial base-and no cure for the spore disease. A timeslip in the apparently instantaneous travel between worlds has occurred and far more than ten...
16) Cobra gamble: #3
Author
Series
Cobra war volume 3
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
308 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cobra warriors, genetically enhanced and implanted with an arsenal of covert weaponry, are the most dangerous guerilla fighters humanity has ever produced. For Jin Moreau Broom, the war is the culmination of a lifetime of Cobra service. But it is also the height of danger for herself and her family as they struggle to survive a war that none of them ever expected to see."--Jacket flap.
17) Redshirts
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.
Author
Series
Shade the changing man volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A strange visitor from the dimension of Meta, Rac Shade has been given the task of trying to stem the growing tide of Earth's insanity, which has created an interdimensinal "Area of Madness" threatening both Meta and Earth with chaos. But upon breaching the barrier between worlds, Shade is trapped in the body of serial killer Troy Grenzer and finds himself on the run from the law as an escaped murderer"--P. [4] of cover.
19) Fractal noise
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new blockbuster science fiction adventure from world-wide phenomenon and #1 New York Times bestseller Christopher Paolini, set in the world of New York Times and USA Today bestseller To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. 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...
Author
Publisher
Enclave Publishing, an imprint of Oasis Family Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Maxine Justice is an ambulance-chasing lawyer desperate for relevance and cash when aliens hire her to represent them before the United Nations. An off-planet consortium wants to heal humanity of every natural disease in exchange for 30 percent of Earth's gold reserves. The deal launches Max to legal stardom and makes her an international target for assassins. MediCorp, Star Cross, PharFuture--the big medical companies all have good reasons to want...