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1) Dawn
Author
Series
Xenogenesis series volume 1
Formats
Description
When Lilith Iyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She discovers that the Oankali--a seemingly benevolent alien race--intervened in the fate of the humanity hundreds of years ago, saving everyone who survived a nuclear war from a dying, ruined Earth and then putting them into a deep sleep. After learning all they could about Earth and its beings, the Oankali healed the planet, cured cancer,...
2) Odyssey
Author
Series
Priscilla Hutchins series volume 5
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
410 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
A special deep space mission is sent to uncover the truth about "moonriders," strange lights witnessed in nearby systems, but the team soon realizes that their mission has become dangerous when they discover the truth about the moonriders.
Author
Series
Tripods trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
x, 176 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Will and a small group of free people plan to destroy the three great cities of the Tripods before the arrival of a space ship destined to doom humanity.
4) Dead silence
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes' Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended. A GHOST SHIP. A SALVAGE CREW. UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS. Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-made obsolete-when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
x, 389 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary earned his rank after being revived from cryogenic sleep to lead the Alliance to victory against the Syndicate Worlds. But his superiors question his loyalty to the regime. Now in command of the First Fleet, Geary is tasked with exploring the frontier beyond Syndic space, a mission he fears deliberately puts the fleet--and himself--in harm's way. An encounter with the alien enigmas confirms Geary's fears. Attacked...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Meet Ralph! He loves all things that go, and he especially loves rocket ships. When his parents tell him he cannot have a rocket ship, Ralph uses his imagination to get what he wants.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A generation starship can hide many secrets. When an Executive clan suspects Oichi of insurgency and discreetly shoves her out an airlock, one of those secrets finds and rescues her. Officially dead, Oichi begins to rebalance power one assassination at a time and uncovers the shocking truth behind the generation starship and the Executive clans.
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
Self-proclaimed genius inventor Alex is convinced that his little brother Jonathan is evil. The kid never shuts up. He's a klutz, and he drools on his pillow when he sleeps. Jonathan's specialty, though, is sticking to Alex like glue--and sticking his nose into his big brother's business. That's why Alex has to leave Planet Earth and fly so far away that no one will ever be able to find him. Using cardboard, duct tape, old odds and ends and his amazing...
11) Death troopers
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Death troopers volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
x, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When the Imperial prison barge Purge breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But soon after a boarding party returns from a scavenging expedition, a horrific disease breaks out and takes the lives of all but a half-dozen survivors whose only option forces them to return to the Star Destroyer--and the soulless, unstoppable dead waiting...
Author
Series
Formats
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.
14) Dinosaur rocket!
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
A group of adventurous dinosaurs blast off on a journey into outer space to explore the Moon.
15) Timeweb
Author
Series
Timeweb chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
555 p. ; 23 cm.
Author
Series
Liaden universe novels volume 14
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
328 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Hoping to leave her misfit past behind her, ace starship pilot Theo Waitley, the daughter of a renowned scholar mother and an interstellar aristocrat father, discovers her heritage as the leader of a powerful Liaden clan before she is targeted by influential enemies.
18) Nightflyers
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
193 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
"Aliens meets Psycho with a chilling mystery set on a haunted spaceship in this illustrated edition of a classic novella, soon to be an original series on SYFY, by the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones. When a scientific expedition is launched to study a mysterious alien race, the only ship available is the Nightflyer, a fully autonomous vessel manned by a single human. But Captain Royd Eris remains locked away, interacting with his passengers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 356 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"The Alliance woke Captain John 'Black Jack' Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people--and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The war may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
464 pages
Description
When Noa closes his eyes on Earth and wakes up on a spaceship called Qriosity just as it's about to explode, he's pretty sure things can't get much weirder. Boy is he wrong. Trapped aboard Qriosity are also DJ and Jenny, neither of whom remember how they got onboard the ship. Together, the three face all the dangers of space, along with murder, aliens, a school dance, and one really, really bad day. But none of this can prepare Noa for the biggest...
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