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1) Code to zero
Author
Language
English
Description
In this classic Cold War thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett puts his own electrifying twist on the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As the clock counts down to a shocking climax, "Code to Zero's split-second suspense proves that . . . [Follett is] still a hell of a storyteller" (Entertainment Weekly).
January, 1958—the darkest hour of the Cold War and...
January, 1958—the darkest hour of the Cold War and...
Author
Series
Murderbot Diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Murderbot's human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action"--
3) Dead silence
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark.
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-- made obsolete-- when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate....
Author
Series
Take them to the stars volume 2
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Sylvain Neuvel weaves a scfi thriller reminiscent of Blake Crouch and Andy Weir in Until the Last of Me, blending a fast moving, darkly satirical look at the 1960s space race with an exploration of the amorality of progress and the nature of violence. The First Rule is the most important: "Always run, never fight." Over 100 generations, Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to push humanity to the stars,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Mickey, who lives on a faraway moon, receives a distress call from his pen pal, Quiggle, whose space scooter has crashed on a nearby asteroid, and they both get a big surprise when they finally meet face to face.
6) Dragon pearl
Author
Series
Thousand worlds volume 1
Language
English
Description
Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.
Author
Series
League volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
352 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
8) Vessel
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After astronaut Catherine Wells's ship undergoes a catastrophic event and loses contact with NASA, the entire world believes her to be dead. Miraculously - and mysteriously - she survives, though everyone else on the mission is lost, as are most of Catherine's memories of her time in space. Her reentry after a decade away is a turbulent one: her husband has moved on with another woman, and the young daughter she left behind has grown into a teenager...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stranded on the moon after his extraordinary airplane takes him into outer space, a boy meets a marooned young Martian with a broken spacecraft, and the two new friends work together to return to their respective homes.
Author
Language
English
Description
The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and Earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
Ryland Grace has been asleep for a very, very long time. He's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete...
11) Uranus
Author
Series
Outer planets volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A religious idealist, a billionaire financier, and a prestigious scientist battle for control over a space mission to search for life on Uranus.
Author
Series
Revenger volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The gripping sequel to the Locus award winning science fiction adventure, Revenger, tells a story of obsession and betrayal as two sisters hunt for the greatest treasure in the universe. Adrana and Fura Ness have finally been reunited, but both have changed beyond recognition. Once desperate for adventure, now Adrana is haunted by her enslavement on the feared pirate Bosa Sennen's ship. And rumors of Bosa Sennen's hidden cache of treasure have ensnared...
Author
Series
Stars and bones volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks--each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities. When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her. What she discovers on Candidate-623 is both terrifying and deadly....
14) Undying: #2
Author
Series
Unearthed volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Trapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from what they've learned there, scavenger Mia and academic Jules are plunged into a desperate race to warn their home planet of the danger humanity's greed has unleashed"--
15) In our stars
Author
Series
Doomed Earth volume 1
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Earth, 2180 Genetically engineered with partly-alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is different than ordinary humans. And they hate her for it. Still, she's spent her life trying to overcome society's prejudice by serving in the Unified Fleet as Earth's international order collapses into war. Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity's hatreds and factions on the planet reach a boiling point, and she witnesses the utter annihilation of Earth....
16) Generation ship
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
589 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world's best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they've sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren't responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It's a time when the entire crew should be coming...
17) Ocean's echo
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell's hit debut, Winter's Orbit. Rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster Tennalhin Halkana can read minds. Tennal, like all neuromodified "readers," is a security threat on his own. But when controlled, readers are a rare asset. Not only can they read minds, but they can navigate chaotic space, the...
18) Wormhole
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Detective Inspectors Gordon Kemp and Danni Bellini are pulled off their routine cold case investigations and ordered to investigate a murder from 2109: eighty years ago ..."--Back cover.
19) Sheep blast off!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Upon finding a spaceship, sheep climb aboard and bumble around until they blast off into orbit.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 377 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.