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Series
Space Odyssey series volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Haywood Floyd, director of the original Discovery mission, sets out to discover what happened to HAL 9000 and comes face to face with something claiming to be Dave Bowman.
2) I am legend
Author
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award for best vampire novel of the century: the genre-defining classic of horror sci-fi that inspired three films.
The population of the entire world has been obliterated by a pandemic of vampire bacteria. Yet somehow, Robert Neville survived. He must now struggle to make sense of what happened and learn to protect himself against the vampires who hunt him nightly.
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The population of the entire world has been obliterated by a pandemic of vampire bacteria. Yet somehow, Robert Neville survived. He must now struggle to make sense of what happened and learn to protect himself against the vampires who hunt him nightly.
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3) Bios
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Language
English
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Bursting with ideas, replete with human insight, Bios is science fiction in the grand tradition: a novel of bravery, exploration, and discovery in a universe charged with awe.
In the 22nd century, humankind has colonized the solar system. Starflight is possible but hugely expensive, so humakind's efforts are focussed on Isis, the one nearby Earthlike world. Isis is verdant, Edenic, rich with complex DNA-based plant and animal life.
Author
Series
Second foundation trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Isaac Asimov's renowned Foundation Trilogy pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction and shaped many of its best writers. With the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, the epic saga left unfinished by the Grand Master himself now continues with this second masterful volume.
With Hari Seldon on trial for treason, the Galactic Empire's long-anticipated migration to Star's End is about to begin. But the mission's brilliant
...Author
Language
English
Description
An American computer hacker operating in Southeast Asia attempts to break a World War II cypher to find the location of a missing shipment of gold. The gold was stolen by the Japanese during the war. Bouncing between World War II and the World Wide Web, Cryptonomicon follows the exploits of Lawrence Waterhouse, a young mathematical genius assigned to a highly secretive outfit that has cracked the fabled Nazi enigma code.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
In the last instants before a war that wiped out most of Earth's humans, a desperate band of scientists scanned billions of human personalities into digital storage and sent them into space. Now, these revenants have triggered a confrontation that could shatter the balance of power and change the nature of reality itself.
Author
Series
Space Odyssey series volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
This New York Times-bestselling chapter in the Hugo Award-winning Space Odyssey series.
The third book in Clarke's beloved Space Odyssey continues the story of Heywood Floyd, survivor of two previous encounters with the mysterious monoliths and the alien intelligences behind them. Floyd is chosen as one of a handful of celebrity guests to witness the first manned touchdown on the surface of Halley's Comet on the privately-owned spaceship Universe....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thousand years after the Jupiter Mission, astronaut Frank Poole is recovered and revived. He is intrigued by how much has changed. Then he receives a warning that the Monoliths have decided to destroy the human race.
Author
Series
Publisher
Jonathan G. Meyer
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
There are planets humans are not meant to settle; beautiful picturesque places that appear idyllic and harmless. The world they selected is one such place.
The second installment in the AL CLARK Trilogy has Al tasked with ensuring the safety of a fledgling Earth colony established on a world called Avalon.
What they didn't realize was paradise demands a price.
10) Playing God
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Formats
Description
To save an alien world, a human architect must risk destroying it For two centuries, the planet of the Dedelphi has been riven by war. Though delicate, swanlike creatures, the planet's natives are fierce in battle, and their ceaseless conflict has reduced their world to a wasteland. To save themselves and their world, the Dedelphi have forged a fragile peace and called for outside intervention. The Earth corporation Bioverse constructs a plan to heal...
11) Provenance
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
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Description
"Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which no one has ever returned. Ingray and her charge will return...
12) Al Clark-Thera
Author
Series
Publisher
Jonathan G. Meyer
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finding a replacement for Earth is hard.
Long distances and time separate anyone hoping to find a more suitable world than Earth. Book three in the Al Clark series has our hero far from our beautiful blue marble, and trying to do exactly that. With the help of friends and alien technology, he must find a safe home for more than a thousand desperate colonists-and he is running out of time.
Other Books:
Al Clark
...13) Moonrise
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
In the twenty-first century, the world is on the brink of a scientific renaissance, about to birth a future where space has become privatized and the moon transforms into a fertile commercial ground. As former astronaut Paul Stavenger works to turn a handful of abandoned government moon shelters into a full-fledged moonbase, powerful corporate lobbies align against him. Against the neo-Luddites is Masterson Aerospace, a company funding and creating...
14) Red moon
Author
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES notable book from Hugo Award-winning author Robert Reed.
The son of a UFO researcher, Agent Cornell Novak is the perfect candidate for a secret government project, where humans go through "portals" and emerge as aliens. Cornell crosses a portal with Porsche, and together they embark upon a bizarre odyssey. When he returns to Earth, Cornell realizes that his greatest challenge is yet to come, as he faces secrets more shattering...
16) One way
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the small crew of ex-cons working on Mars start getting murdered, everyone is a suspect in this terrifying science fiction thriller from bona fide rocket scientist and award winning-author S.J. Morden. It's the dawn of a new era - and we're ready to colonize Mars. But the company that's been contracted to construct a new Mars base, has made promises they can't fulfill and is desperate enough to cut corners. The first thing to go is the automation...
17) Neptune
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In the outer settlements of the human-occupied solar system, there are rumors about what was found deep under Neptune's frozen seas when a Hungarian billionaire's ship was lost with all hands. But the rumors are far more tame than the reality. When the billionaire's daughter mounts a mission to find the truth, her discoveries will up-end humanity's understanding of our origins on Earth"--
18) Rama revealed
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
In the New York Times-bestselling conclusion to the award-winning Rama series, a human colony aboard Rama III approaches the ultimate confrontation.
Two thousand humans have been trapped on the enormous spaceship Rama III, bound for the Raman Node orbiting Sirius. As they hurtle through interstellar space, the human population has formed a violent authoritarian society-one that has imprisoned astronaut Nicole Wakefield. After a daring escape with...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit intelligent technology.
But, by some miscalculation they have landed in another solar system and must shape the gas giant planet...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thought provoking novel about the connection between the passion for knowledge and the desire to love from award–winning author Rebecca Goldstein.
A New York Times Notable Book
A grand gothic novel of the outer reaches of passion—of the body and of the mind—Properties of Light is a mesmerizing tale of consuming love and murderous professional envy entangled within the very heart of a physics problem so huge...
A New York Times Notable Book
A grand gothic novel of the outer reaches of passion—of the body and of the mind—Properties of Light is a mesmerizing tale of consuming love and murderous professional envy entangled within the very heart of a physics problem so huge...
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