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Author
Series
Expanse volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
Author
Series
Wayfarers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past. And nothing could be further from what she's known than the crew of the Wayfarer."--Page [4] of cover.
3) Dune
Series
Dune volume 1
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (155 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Atreides, a brilliant, gifted young man born into a destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
Author
Language
English
Description
On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet-pristine and habitable, like our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade robo-sapian Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they're assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it inhabitable backfires, Billie and Spike's flight to the future becomes...
Author
Language
English
Description
This beautifully illustrated edition of the New York Times bestselling classic celebrates the 42nd anniversary of the original publication—with all-new art by award-winning illustrator Chris Riddell.
SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • “An astonishing comic writer.”—Neil Gaiman
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
It’s...
SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • “An astonishing comic writer.”—Neil Gaiman
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
It’s...
Author
Language
English
Description
Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series!
“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”—The Washington Post Book World
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat,...
“Douglas Adams is a terrific satirist.”—The Washington Post Book World
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat,...
8) Salvaged
Author
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Rosalyn Devar is on the run from her famous family, the bioengineering job she's come to hate, and her messed-up life. She's run all the way to outer space, where she's taken a position as a "space janitor," cleaning up ill-fated research expeditions. But no matter how far she goes, Rosalyn can't escape herself. After too many mistakes on the job, she's given one last chance: take care of salvaging the Brigantine, a research vessel that has gone dark,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
385 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Data's android brother is stolen, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise race against time to retrieve him, while Commander Worf, who only has one chance to avert disaster, faces a steep price for victory.
Author
Series
Across the universe volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her.
11) Light bringer
Author
Series
Red rising volume 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The legendary Reaper, Darrow, to defend Mars from a bloodthirsty would-be conqueror, begins his long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield.
12) Shades of dark
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 410 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
For two fugitive lovers, space has no haven, no mercy, no light-only... SHADES OF DARK.Court-martialed Imperial Fleet captain Chasidah Bergren is on the run with her fugitive lover, the telepathic mercenary Gabriel Sullivan. Rim-worlds and illegal deep-space outposts offer little safety. Corruption in the empire-expertly orchestrated by Sully's powerful cousin, Hayden Burke-is everywhere: among her crew, her friends. Even her family. Then a mysterious...
Author
Series
Wayfarers volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A young apprentice, an alien academic, a caretaker for the dead, an archivist, and others wrestle with profound questions after their evacuation ship, carrying the last humans on Earth, finally reaches its destination.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this new anthology, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative. Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of his titles, but also speculates on the beginnings of science fiction."--Publisher.
Series
Star Wars resistance volume Season 1
Publisher
LucasFilm
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 462 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Recruited by Poe Dameron for a top secret Resistance mission, hotshot pilot Kazuda 'Kaz' Xiono finds himself in over his head when he and BB-8 are stationed aboard a large aircraft refueling station. Join Kaz on this high-flying adventure as he struggles to keep his cover as a mechanic and gets entangled with ace pilots, marauding pirates, villainous stormtroopers, and other colorful characters.
17) Braking Day
Author
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On a generation ship bound for a distant star, one engineer-in-training must discover the secrets at the heart of the voyage in this new sci-fi novel. It's been over a century since three generation ships escaped an Earth dominated by artificial intelligence in pursuit of a life on a distant planet orbiting Tau Ceti. Now, it's nearly Braking Day, when the ships will begin their long-awaited descent to their new home. Born on the lower decks of the...
Series
Killjoys volume Season 5
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (427 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The epic saga comes to a thrilling conclusion in the fifth and final season of the intergalactic sci-fi series. This season reunites our trio of intrepid bounty hunters,Dutch, John, and D'avin, for more interplanetary adventures in the Quad. Haunted by their pasts, the Killjoys now have much greater challenges to deal with than merely chasing warrants. With the fate of the galaxy on the line, Dutch, John, and D'avin are in for the fight of their lives....
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the edge an isolated star system, Kel Gardavros, once a member of an Order whose military arm was disbanded and scattered across the galaxy, finds her past intruding in the form of a long-dormant Pale war machine that is suddenly reactivated, primed to kill every sentient creature on the planet"--
A refugee with a secret, a dangerous foe, and a road trip that could either save a planet or start a war. Where peace is lost, may we find it. Five...
20) Meru
Author
Series
Alloy era volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In a future where human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy, Jayanthi, the adopted human child alloys, and her alloy pilot Vaha are sent to test the habitability of an Earthlike planet called Meru, an unoccupied new world, and the future of human-alloy relations.