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Fractalverse novel volume 2
Language
English
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"A new blockbuster science fiction adventure from world-wide phenomenon and #1 New York Times bestseller Christopher Paolini, set in the world of New York Times and USA Today bestseller To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII:a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across...
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English
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In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world’s best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they’ve sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren’t responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It’s a time when the entire crew should...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away--no climate change, no war, no Twitter--beckons, and settling the stars finally seems within our grasp. Or is it? Critically acclaimed, bestselling authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith set out to write the essential guide to a glorious future of space settlements, but after years of research, they aren't so sure it's a good idea. Space technologies and space business are progressing...
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Series
Firefly) volume 8
Language
English
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The Serenity lands on the remote moon of Abel for a lucrative job but becomes embroiled in a young woman's quest for vengeance and a starving frontier town's fight for survival. Join Mal and the gang in this enthralling original tie-in novel from the award-winning series.
The Serenity crew head to Yell City, one of the settlements on Abel, a moon in the Rim. Their job:track down the killers of a local lawyer shot dead in the streets by a local gang....
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee. In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. There, January's life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger-a person whose body is not adjusted to lower gravity and so poses a danger to those born on, or naturalized to, Mars. January's...
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Publisher
Quill Tree Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
266 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin's assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots--she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there's something about Kye that feels almost too human. When Clem and Kye begin to collaborate, their chemistry...
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Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"A door never closes, but a window opens . . . With origins in the Old Universe, the malevolent, acquisitive intelligence of Tinsori Light sought to infect others with itself, and send those agents out into the wide new universe to infect even more. For centuries, two heroes stood between Tinsori Light and the vulnerable universe-Light Keepers Jen Sin yos'Phelium and Lorith of the Sanderat. Just when it seemed that they-merely human-must fail, Tinsori...
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Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"For Jessica Mathers, teleportation and planetary colonization in deep space aren't just hypotheticals--they're real. They're also the very real reason her scientist parents left her behind six years ago. Now she is about to be reunited with them, forced to leave behind everyone she knows and loves, to join their research assignment on Carver 1061c, a desolate, post-extinction planet almost 14 lightyears from Earth. Teleportation is safe and routine...
9) Fair trade
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Series
Liaden universe novels volume 24
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
516 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
10) Poor man's sky
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Homicide detective Raimy Vaught is a losing contestant in the biggest reality show ever: the colonization of Mars. Brother Michael is a Benedictine monk who just wants to help the future happen. Andrei Bykhovski is an asteroid miner desperately escaping indentured servitude. Bridget Tobin is a hydroponic farmer studying the greenhouses of Luna. But when a fellow Mars contestant drops dead at a Lunar monastery, these four souls will find themselves...
11) Beggar's sky
Author
Series
Rich man's sky volume 3
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
313 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Trillionaire Igbal Renz has constructed a starship capable of making the twenty-year journey to Alpha Centauri. So why is he stopping at barely one-tenth that distance, with a cargo of a hundred frozen scientists and diplomats? Rumors abound that Renz Ventures, Inc., has made contact with . . . something. And yet, as deadly stealth ships prowl the space lanes and as the corporate space race threatens to devolve into outright warfare, the Four Horsemen...
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Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
503 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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On Imir, Captain Holt founded a new colony on an empty world. In the process, he created hope and a new future for humanity. But generations later, his descendants are struggling to survive. As harvests worsen and equipment fails, strangers appear in a town where everyone knows their neighbor. Now the inexplicable lurks in the woods and the community fears it's being observed - that they're not alone. They'd be right, as explorers from the stars had...
13) Brink: Book 05
Author
Publisher
Rebellion
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2096 and Earth has been reduced to an uninhabited wasteland. What was left of humanity was evacuated into overpopulated space stations, or 'Habitats'. Nolan Maslow, a journalist working for The Herald, is investigating the death of HSD agent Brinkmann and the sect that has infiltrated the maintenance workers of Ludmilla Habitat. He will find out that even his most outrageous theories cannot encompass what is actually happening behind the...
14) Brink: Book 02
Author
Publisher
Rebellion
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Her past as an Investigator seemingly behind her, Bridget Kurtis is sent to the under construction Galina Habitat as a security consultant. With a skeleton crew of engineers, architects ans security personnel, construction is running behind schedule and Mariam Junot herself (the acting-CEO of Junot Corp) has arrived to find out why. Amid rumors of hauntings and disappearances, Kurtis uncovers a conspiracy that may be more insidious and far-reaching...
15) Brink: Book 03
Author
Publisher
Rebellion
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bridget Kurtis is back undercover. Posing as security staff within the paranoid Junot house, she must attempt to infiltrate the Master Sect lurking amongst the upper echelons of Junot corporate before the group realises their plans to appropriate Galina Habitat for mass human sacrifice have been compromised. Separating occult machinations from insider dealing is hard enough, but the board are already suspicious of events on Galina, and the team's...
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