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1) Hyperion
Author
Series
Hyperion series volume 1
Language
English
Description
It is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer. On the eve of disaster, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set fourth on a final voyage to the legendary Time Tombs on Hyperion, home to the Shrike, a lethal creature, part god and part killing machine, whose powers transcend the limits...
2) The sparrow
Author
Series
Sparrow novels (Mary Doria Russell) volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
408 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Linguist Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit priest who leads a twenty-first century scientific mission to an extraterrestrial culture, is involved in a tragic misunderstanding with the alien civilization that leaves him physically and spiritually maimed.
Author
Language
English
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"A girl named Petra Peña, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 5
Language
English
Description
"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you are at work, and you have had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 8
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
494 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based upon Frank Herbert's final outline, presents the last of the Dune series which reveals the future of the planet Arrakis, the final revelation of the Kwisatz Haderach, and the resolution to the war between man and machine.
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Hand of judgement volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The destruction of the Death Star brings together struggling Jedi Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia to face a new cataclysmic conflict with the Rebel Alliance.
7) Anathem
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 937 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the Earth-like planet, Arbre, scientists, philosophers and mathematicians are called upon to leave their sanctuary when a extraterrestrial catastrophe threatens.
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
It has a dark past -- one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessel named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks ...
Author
Series
Dune novels. Legends of Dune volume 3
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
620 p. : geneal. table ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It has been fifty-six hard years since the events of The Machine Crusade. Synchronized Worlds and Unallied Planets are liberated. the human worlds begin to hope that the end of the centuries-long conflict with the thinking machines is finally in sight. Unfortunately, Omnius has one last, deadly card to play. In a last-ditch effort to destroy humankind, virulent plagues are let loose throughout the galaxy, decimating the populations of whole planets....
10) Dune
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Series
Language
English
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Follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Le Guin's Hainish series begins with the assumption that centuries ago humanoids from the planet Hain ventured through the solar system establishing colonies on various planets including Earth. For mysterious reasons these colonies lose all contact and knowledge of each other until the 21st century when an attempt is made to establish a galactic league. Individual stories in this loosely organized series explore the inherent communication difficulties...
13) Semiosis
Author
Series
Semiosis duology volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches and waits. Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that humans are more than tools."--
14) Hunters of dune
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
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Language
English
Author
Series
Homecoming saga volume 2
Language
English
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A powerful computer, the Oversoul, has the task of governing human affairs on the planet Harmony and needs to be repaired. Moozh, a great warrior, flouts the Oversoul. Can anyone stop him or will the planet fall?
16) Caliban's war
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
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...
Author
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
While residents of the planet Valo prepare to welcome visitors from all over the galaxy for the Republic Fair, Jedi Padawan Ram Jomaran discovers that someone has knocked out Valo's communications tower, and as the dreaded Nihil unleash a surprise attack, it's up to Ram to face the enemy and send a call for help to the Republic.
18) Abaddon's Gate
Author
Series
Expanse volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
566 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core.
19) Red moon
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It is twenty-five years since China established the first colony on the moon, and the lives of three people are about to collide. American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip there, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding. It is also the first visit to the moon for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts and influence,...
20) Ancillary mercy
Author
Series
Imperial Radch volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist, and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai--ruler of an empire at war with itself"--Page 4 of cover.
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