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Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A hundred years before Ender's Game, humans thought they were alone in the galaxy. Humanity was slowly making their way out from Earth to the planets and asteroids of the Solar System, exploring and mining and founding colonies.
The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador's telescopes...
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1
Language
English
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"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
517 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, probably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations;...
5) Redshirts
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
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
Expanse volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
532 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The fifth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel! A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen....
7) Xenocide
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
First trade edidtion
Physical Desc
x, 394 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lusitania's three sapient species are in trouble. The starways congress has decided to wipe out the planet to kept a deadly virus from escaping . A fourth intelligence loyal to Ender and Lusitania causes the fleet to disappear. What is the Starways Congress going to do next?
Author
Series
Expanse volume 9
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
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
Fractalverse volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
11) AT-AT attack!
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First boxed set edition.
Physical Desc
30 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Luke Skywalker and the rest of the Rebels face off against the Empire's dreaded mechanical AT-ATs on the ice planet of Hoth.
12) 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.
14) Leviathan wakes
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.
15) Ender's game
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut―young Ender is the Wiggin...
16) Raven stratagem
Author
Series
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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."--Amazon.com.
17) Fatal alliance
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
429 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Tassaa Bareesh, a matriarch in the Hutt crime cartel, is holding an auction that's drawing attention from across the galaxy. Representatives of both the Republic and the Sith Empire are present, along with a Jedi Padawan sent to investigate, a disenfranchised trooper drummed out of the Republic's elite Blackstar Squad, and a mysterious Mandalorian with a private agenda. But the Republic's envoy is not what he seems, the Empire's delegate is a ruthless...
18) Caliban's war
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
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...
20) Ender's shadow
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. As Earth prepares to defend itself from total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable enemy, all focus is on the development of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth--they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the...
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