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Series
Stormlight archive volume 2
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The war with the Parshendi moves into a new, dangerous phase, as Dalinar leads the human armies deep into the heart of the Shattered Plains. Meanwhile Shallan searches for the legendary city of Urithuru, and Kaladin, leader of the restored Knights Radiant, masters the powers of a Windrunner.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe. Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people...
3) Hyperion
Author
Series
Hyperion series volume 1
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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...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
396 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
To avoid an interstellar incident, ex-cop and hacker Harry Creek searches for a rare type of sheep to be used in an alien race's coronation ceremony, following a trail that leads to pet store owner Robin Baker, whose genes contain traces of the sheep DNA.
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (182 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a full-scale war is begun by the evil Scarran empire, the Peacekeeper Alliance has but one hope: reassemble human astronaut John Crichton. Crichton's task: get the entire Peacekeeper race to safety before the last war brings an end to the universe.
8) Red moon
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
vii, 446 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California"--
"It is twenty-five years...
9) The prefect
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Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
410 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous--a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than...
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]-
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"My whole life I planned on going to pilot school like the rest of my friends--then I got rejected! Along came a little green guy named Yoda who invited me to Jedi Academy. Now I'm at a school with aliens, robots, and lightsaber-wielding bullies who can lift things with their minds! How am I supposed to compete with that? As if starting middle school wasn't hard enough..." The story of Roan Novachez, Jedi Academy student, is told through comics, journal...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
159 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Description
Collects the five remaining chronicles of the Sith lords, detailing how each lord rose to power and explaining the philosophies and methods behind the dark side of the Force.
12) Baloney, Henry P
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school again.
13) A darkling sea
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Description
On the planet Ilmatar, under a roof of ice a kilometer thick, a team of deep-sea diving scientists investigates the blind alien race that lives below. The Terran explorers have made an uneasy truce with the Sholen, their first extraterrestrial contact: so long as they don't disturb the Ilmataran habitat, they're free to conduct their missions in peace. But when Henri Kerlerec, media personality and reckless adventurer, ends up sliced open by curious...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017
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Description
"Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against...
18) The thing
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004.
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Description
A research team at a remote research station in Antarctica finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has remained buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Unfrozen and unleashed, it creates havoc and terror as it changes forms and becomes one of them.
20) Up against it
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
416 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Managing utilities on a future asteroid colony, bureaucrat-engineer Jane discovers that a water crisis may have been orchestrated by the Martian mafia and that the colony is also being threatened by a rogue artificial intelligence and a transhumanist cult.
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