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1) 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...
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
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...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
One of the most powerful questions humans ask about the cosmos is: Are we alone? While the science behind this inquiry is fascinating, it doesn't exist in a vacuum. It is a reflection of our values, our fears, and most importantly, our enduring sense of hope. In The Possibility of Life, acclaimed science journalist Jaime Green traces the history of our understanding, from the days of Galileo and Copernicus to our contemporary quest for exoplanets....
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Scientists are on the verge of answering one of the greatest questions in history: Are we alone? Finding Life Beyond Earth immerses audiences in the sights and sounds of alien worlds, while top astrobiologists explain how these places are changing how we think about the potential for life in our solar system.
8) Survival
Author
Series
Star quest trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
333 pages ; cm.
Description
Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. In Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons, and have survived earlier “death waves,” gamma ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally...
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 6
Formats
Description
Interplanetary intrigue, hyperspace pursuit, and future technology combine with a desperate search for the planet Earth.
11) Aftermath
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliancenow a fledgling New Republicpresses its advantage by hunting down the enemys scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemys strength is unfolding. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill, but...
Author
Series
Captain Raptor adventures volume 2
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
Captain Raptor and the crew of the Megatooth are called back into action to save the planet Jurassica from rogue space pirates.
13) Solaris
Series
Criterion collection volume 164
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (169 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
14) Elder race
Author
Description
"Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxv, 211 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
"Immediately recognized as a work of monumental importance, Chariots of the Gods endures as proof that Earth has been visited repeatedly by advanced aliens from other worlds. Here, Erich von Däniken examines ancient ruins, lost cities, spaceports, and a myriad of hard scientific facts that point to extraterrestrial intervention in human history. Most incredible of all, however, is von Däniken's theory that we are the descendants of these galactic...
19) Blue Mars
Author
Series
Mars trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
609 p. : map ; 25 cm.
20) The uplift war
Author
Series
Uplift saga volume 3
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
The inhabitants of Garth, a dying planet, battle brutal alien invaders, with the survival of Earth and the fate of the entire five galaxies at stake.
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