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1) The sparrow
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Series
Language
English
Description
Combining elements of science fiction and spiritual philosophy, this novel is a tale of the devastating consequences of a scientific mission to make contact with an extraterrestrial culture.
Author
Series
Expanse volume 3
Language
English
Description
An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core.
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Series
Murderbot diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
SecUnit would rather be streaming its favorite shows than protecting the rather fragile human crew it works for, even if it has become somewhat partial to them. Unfortunately, being captured has become a matter of course for the crew's missions, and this time the kidnapping brings SecUnit face-to-face with its pseudo-creator, ART. Turns out that ART, another AI, needs SecUnit's help to rescue it from a hostile takeover by alien remnant technology....
Author
Series
Starbound trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When a foiled attempt to infiltrate the corrupt LaRoux Industries forces hacker Gideon Marchant and revenge-seeking Sofia Quinn into a fragile alliance, they join forces with Icarus survivors Tarver and Lilac and Avon's protectors Flynn and Jubilee, to take down the most powerful corporation in the galaxy--before LRI's secrets destroy them all.
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Series
Hyperion series volume 2
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English
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Description
The entire galaxy is threatened when the Time Tombs in the world of Hyperion begin to open after being closed off for years, unleashing danger from their depths.
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Series
Language
English
Description
A stand-alone tie-in to the successful comic book series, Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi reveals the origins of the Jedi Order on the remote world of Tython, where ancient philosophers and scientists share their mystical knowledge of the Force while colonizing a dangerous new homeworld.
7) Cibola burn
Author
Series
Expanse volume 4
Language
English
Description
The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule. But Holden and his crew must also contend with the...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series. AN OLD ENEMY RETURNS In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter,...
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Hand of judgement volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
10) Adrift
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Series
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English
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The Maritime Unit had landed in paradise. After a terrifying ten-year transit from Solar System aboard the Ashanti, the small band of oceanographers and marine scientists were finally settled. Perched on a reef five hundred kilometers out from shore, they were about to embark on the first exploration of Donovan's seas. But Donovan is never what it seems; the changes in the children were innocuous--oddities of behavior normal to kids who'd found themselves...
11) Tiamat's wrath
Author
Series
Expanse volume 8
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"As humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay....
Author
Series
Farian war volume 1
Language
English
Description
The battle for the throne is over. The war for the galaxy is just beginning. Hail Bristol, infamous galactic gunrunner and former runaway princess, never expected to inherit the throne of Indrana. But after avenging the murder of her entire family and cleansing the Empire of usurpers in a bloody civil war, the former outlaw must fulfill her duties to her people. Hail retires her gun and throws herself into the rebuilding of her Empire. Her hard-won...
13) Leviathan falls
Author
Series
Expanse volume 9
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight...
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Thrawn ascendancy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First editon.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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
Star Wars novels. Outbound flight volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
453 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before the onset of the Clone Wars, a group of explorers consisting of six Jedi Masters, twelve Jedi Knights, and a fifty-thousand-member crew set out aboard a state-of-the-art starship on a mission to search for intelligent life outside the known galaxy.
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Thrawn ascendancy volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beyond the edge of the galaxy lies the Unknown Regions: chaotic, uncharted, and near impassable, with hidden secrets and dangers in equal measure. And nestled within its swirling chaos is the Ascendancy, home to the enigmatic Chiss and the nine ruling families that lead them. The peace of the Ascendancy, a beacon of calm and stability, is shattered after a daring attack on the Chiss capital that leaves no trace of the enemy. Baffled, the Ascendancy...
Author
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before even The Phantom Menace...Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in The High Republic. Padawan Reath Silas is being sent from the cosmopolitan galactic capital of Coruscant to the undeveloped frontier and he couldn't be less happy about it. He'd rather stay at the Jedi Temple, studying the archives. But when the ship he's traveling on is knocked out of hyperspace in a galactic-wide disaster, Reath finds...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"I have sensed a disturbance in the Force." Ominous words under any circumstances, but all the more so when uttered by Emperor Palpatine. On Batuu, at the edges of the Unknown Regions, a threat to the Empire is taking root--its existence little more than a glimmer, its consequences as yet unknowable. But it is troubling enough to the Imperial leader to warrant investigation by his most powerful agents: ruthless enforcer Lord Darth Vader and brilliant...
Author
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Sylvestri Yarrow is on a streak of bad luck with no end of sight. She's been doing her best to keep the family cargo business going after her mom's death, but between mounting debt and increasing attacks by the Nihil on unsuspecting ships, Syl is in danger of losing all she has left of her mother. She heads to the galactic capital of Coruscant for help, but gets sidetracked when she's drawn into a squabble between two of the Republic's most powerful...
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