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Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
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Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
Author
Series
Dove chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"On a lunar colony, fifteen-year-old Phaet Theta does the unthinkable and joins the Militia when her mother is imprisoned by the Moon's oppressive government"--
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
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Description
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 5
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
431 p.
Description
B Team leader Lieutenant Harry Wilson counters hostile alien forces, angry humans and unpredictable elements from the universe in order to protect the interests of the Colonial Union.
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Series
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Ben Bova's The Silent War is the breakneck continuation to The Asteroid Wars series that can end only in earth's salvation--or the annihilation of all that humankind has ever accomplished in space.
When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is led by indomitable Texan Pancho Lane, Humphries Space Systems by the rich and ruthless Martin Humphries, and their fight is over nothing less than resources...
7) Ruins
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
560
Description
To prevent the destruction of his planet, teenaged Rigg Sessamekesh, who can manipulate time, must assume more responsibility when he and others travel back 11,000 years to the arrival of human starships.
Author
Series
In the time of the sixth sun volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
430 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Series
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Description
Bean moves with three of his children into a derelict space colony ship where they hope for a cure to engineered genes that give them high intelligence and short lives, a situation that is complicated when space-time distortions cause them to be forgotten by humanity.
12) Dragon's time
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 29
Publisher
Del Rey Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xvi, 321 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Weyrwoman Fiona struggles to keep her surviving Weyr in fighting shape while Lorana plans a complicated time-travel journey to save their world.
13) Lord of light
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Description
Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made themselves immortal, and now rule their world as the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Only one dares oppose them: he who was once Siddhartha and is now Mahasamatman. Binder of Demons, Lord of Light.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Bound for humanity's new colony planet, seventeen-year-old Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than scheduled, forcing her to navigate an unfamiliar planet where technology is considered magic and its practitioners revered as deities.
15) Aurora
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"Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as a new home world for those on board. But the journey has brought unexpected changes and their best laid plans may not be enough to survive"--
16) Fuzzy nation
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Jack Holloway, prospecting on Zara XXIII for ZaraCorp, finds an immensely valuable stream of sunstone. But when he forwards footage of the planet's catlike, native "fuzzies" to a biologist friend--who believes the "fuzzies" are sentient--hired company thugs, murder, and arson soon follow to protect ZaraCorp's mining interests.
17) Glorious
Author
Series
Bowl of heaven volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Traces the efforts of an astronaut team to explore and document an alien labyrinth constructed from incomprehensible technology.
18) Waste of space
Author
Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
In 2041 on Moon Base Alpha, thirteen-year-old Dash must solve the mystery of how Lars was poisoned before the base loses oxygen, forcing the colonists to return to Earth.
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
542 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm.
Description
When political divides, riots and sabotage compromise the Earth's response to the Meteor strike, Elma departs for a fledgling Mars colony before the challenges of interplanetary pioneer life are further complicated by her husband's presidential campaign.
20) Judas unchained
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
827 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
The factions in the embattled Commonwealth must come together to battle not only the predatory alien species, the Prime, but also the Starflyer, a mysterious and undetectable alien with irresistible mind-control abilities.
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