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Author
Series
Skippyjon Jones (Picture books) volume 5
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Skippyjon Jones, the Siamese cat that thinks he is a Chihuahua dog, has an adventure on Mars.
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Death troopers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Embark on a dangerous journey through the galaxy with the motley crew of the spaceship Wayfarer in this sequel to The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.
Author
Series
Jacob Wonderbar volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When sixth-grade classroom terror Jacob Wonderbar and his friends Sarah and Dexter find a spaceship crashed in the woods near their suburban neighborhood, their discovery leads them to a series of adventures including space travel, substitute teachers, kidnapping, and more.
Author
Series
Chilling effect volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past. And nothing could be further from what she's known than the crew of the Wayfarer.
15) Jumpnauts
Author
Series
Folding universe volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Three rising scientists within the Pacific League of Nations form an uneasy alliance to secure first contact with a mysterious alien race before their rivals formulate a potentially disastrous military response, forcing them to solve puzzles rooted within human antiquity, confront their personal demons and discover truths of the universe.
16) Caliban's war
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of...
17) The last Emperox
Author
Series
Interdependency novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Emperox Grayland II has finally wrestled conrol of her empire from those who oppose her and who deny the reality of the collapse. But "control" is a slippery thing, and even as Grayland strives to save as many of her people from impoverished isolation as possible, the forces opposing her rule will make a final, desperate push to topple her from her throne and power.
18) Relic
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The last known human searches the galaxy for companionship in a new adventure novel from the legendary author of the Pip & Flinx series. Ruslan is the last surviving human being in the entire universe. Saved by a species of friendly aliens, Ruslan is forced to live life as an artifact of history, paying a lonely homage to a once-proud race that spanned the stars. Now, with the weight of his near-extinct species pressing down on him, Ruslan embarks...
Author
Series
Interdependency novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Is travel faster than light possible? Ask Hugo Award-winning, New York Times best-selling author Scalzi, who's dreamed up the Flow, an extradimensional field humans can access at certain points in space-time for a trip to other worlds. Humans have used the Flow to spin out from Earth, with their various outposts governed by the Interdependency that assures both interstellar peace and the imperial rulers' absolute control. Bad...
20) Nemesis games
Author
Series
Expanse volume 5
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The fifth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel! A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen....
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