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Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
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Description
H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
395 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
A latest entry in the Ender's Game prequel series that includes Earth Afire follows an invasion of terraforming aliens on Earth, which is complicated by politics and power struggles until a small band of humans organize a desperate defense.
47) Nemesis
Author
Series
First colony volume 2
Publisher
Accoustical Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
Earth is lost. Seven years ago the New Earth colony received one final message from Earth...a warning. First, a global pandemic, then the emergence of a new species. A war for survival ravaged the Sol system. Now they are coming for the colony. Many colonists don't believe it, but Connor does. They must prepare.
48) Deceived
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
285 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
A novelization of plots in the online video game "Star Wars: The Old Republic" shares the story of a mysterious Sith Lord who defies the Empire and destroys the Jedi Temple, setting the stage for the Treaty of Coruscant.
49) The last colony
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Serving his human colony on distant Huckleberry as a village ombudsman, retired fighter John Perry looks forward to settling into farm life with his wife and adopted daughter before he is drawn back into the dangerous interstellar politics of his past.
52) Greater good
Author
Series
Star Wars. Thrawn Ascendancy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
When a mysterious enemy strikes at the very foundation of the Ascendancy by widening the rifts between the Nine Ruling Families and Forty Great Houses, Thrawn and his allies must decide what matters most--the security of their family or the survival of the Ascendancy itself.
Author
Series
Hellhole trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
527 pages ; 25 cm
Description
A confrontation between General Adolphus and the fleets of Diadem Michella Duchenet is compromised by a shadow-Xayan mental blast, an imminent asteroid collision in the outer Candela system, and a fanatical band of rogue telemancers.
Author
Series
Star wars novels. Force unleashed volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books/Del Rey
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Set between Star Wars: Episode III, Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope, an action-packed official novel based on the release of the new Star Wars video game follows Darth Vader as he embarks on a quest to rid the galaxy of the Jedi and confronts life-altering decisions that could change everything.
55) The sky people
Author
Series
Lords of Creation volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
In 1988, with the Cold War raging, Marc Vitrac is assigned to Jamestown, the U.S.-Commonwealth base on Venus, and discovers a perilous world swarming with lost races of people, where he confronts a secret that could threaten the human race.
57) Hostage
Author
Series
Rebel force volume 2
Formats
Description
Princess Leia, who has withstood kidnapping and torture under Darth Vader, faces a difficult mission as she heads home, where X-7, a deadly assassin of the Empire, awaits her.
58) Target
Author
Series
Rebel force volume 1
Formats
Description
The Death Star has been destroyed, but back at the Rebel base the celebration is over. The Alliance has intercepted a coded transmission, indicating that the Empire is determine to discover which pilot was responsible for the destruction of the Death Star. New security protocol is in effect, and the details of the Death Star mission are now top secret. No one is to know that Luke fired the decisive shot.
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
607 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Description
When the Republic of Siddermark is threatened by wars triggered by the Charis kingdom's declaration of independence from the Church of God Awaiting, Vicar Clytahn, King Cayleb, Queen Sharleyan and Merlin Arthawes struggle to prevent widespread starvationwhile protecting their people from violent attacks.
60) Finn's story
Author
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
137 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
Finn, a former stormtrooper for the evil First Order, gets caught up in a galactic war between the Resistance and those whom he used to call his peers.
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