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At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupiter is the father of modern science: Galileo Galilei. To the inhabitants of the Jovian moons, Galileo is a revered figure whose actions will influence the subsequent history of the human race. From the summit of their distant future, a charismatic renegade named Ganymede travels to the past to bring Galileo forward in an attempt to alter history and
...2) The deep sky
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2023.
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English
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"It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A ship carries eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But a bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect. Asuka already felt like an impostor before the explosion. She was chosen to represent Japan, a country she only partly knows as a half-Japanese...
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Final Architecture trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Facing impending extinction, an Intermediary decides to help the Human Colonies stop the Architects who are back consuming entire planets after eighty years of a fragile peace, in the second novel of the series, following Shards of Earth.
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Central Corps (Elizabeth Bonesteel) volume 3
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English
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When former Central Corps Commander Elena Shaw finds a strange artifact on the moon Yakutsk, she is drawn into a conflict between her past life and the corrupt corporation Ellis Systems.
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Final Architecture trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Idris Telemmier has uncovered the Architects' greatest weakness. A shadowy cartel scrambles to turn his discovery into a weapon against these alien destroyers of world. But the galaxy's great powers would rather pursue their own agendas than stand together against this shared terror. As the galaxy erupts into a mutually destructive war, Idris knows that the Architects are merely tools of a higher intelligence-- and the Masters are taking steps to...
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Delta-V volume 2
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English
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"In New York Times bestselling author Daniel Suarez's latest space-tech thriller, a group of pioneering astropreneurs must overcome never-before-attempted engineering challenges to rescue colleagues stranded at a distant asteroid--kicking off a new space race in which Earth's climate crisis could well hang in the balance"--
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Final Architecture trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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After Earth was destroyed mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared. The war over, its heroes forgotten, Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him. He scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. Now, fifty years...
10) The last shadow
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2021.
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"Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe-the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it were allowed to escape from Lusitania. One planet. Three sapient species living peacefully together. And one deadly virus that could wipe out...
11) Cave of stars
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HarperPrism
Pub. Date
[1999]
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276 pages ; 25 cm
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English
13) The earthborn
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Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
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First edition.
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240 pages ; 22 cm
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English
14) The effort
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2021.
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When dark comet UD3 was spotted near Jupiter's orbit, its existence was largely ignored. Benjamin Schwartz, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies knew the threat this eight-kilometer comet posed to the survival of the human race. Ben and his girlfriend Amy Kowalski fly to South America to assemble an international counteraction team. On board a polar icebreaker Jack Campbell, a photographer for National Geographic, works to capture...
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2024.
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We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet. But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ... wasn't an official one. That, indeed, its commander may have been acting as an unwitting cats-paw for the Founders, the ancient alliance of very old,...
16) Alone out here
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2022.
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2072. Soon a volcanic eruption will trigger catastrophic devastation. Production of a space fleet is meant to save humankind, and the children of engineers and scientists are touring the Lazarus, a high-tech prototype spaceship. When the apocalypse arrives ahead of schedule, First Daughter Leigh Chen and a handful of teens from the tour are the only ones to escape the planet. The starship is loaded with a catalog of human artifacts, a frozen menagerie...
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2023.
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The Scattered Pearls Belt is a string of habitats on the edge of a huge galactic empire--a glittering, decadent society rife with corruption. Now, one of its victims--Quynh, a scholar betrayed and left for dead--has come back for her revenge, under the guise of the glamorous and enigmatic Alchemist of Streams and Hills. Quynh's path intersects that of Minh, the daughter of one of her oldest enemies, who chafes at her own lack of freedom; and of Hoa,...
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Central Corps (Elizabeth Bonesteel) volume 2
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English
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A young soldier finds herself caught in the crosshairs of a deadly conspiracy in deep space. Six weeks ago, Commander Elena Shaw and Captain Greg Foster were court-martialed for their role in an event Central Gov denies ever happened. Yet instead of a dishonorable discharge or time in a military prison, Shaw and Foster and are now back together on Galileo. With increasing numbers of "accidents, " it becomes clear that someone is willing to set off...
19) Infinity gate
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Pandominion volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The Pandominion: a political and trading alliance of a million worlds. Except that they're really just one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an A.I. threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they'll eradicate it by whatever means necessary. Scientist Hadiz Tambuwal is looking for a solution to her own Earth's environmental collapse when she stumbles across the secret of inter-dimensional travel, a secret...
20) The outside
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The outside volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Super-intelligent AI Gods rule the galaxy. Their algorithms determine the rewards you reap before and after death. But the Gods give and the Gods take away. And Yasira has never been good at Gods... Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive on board The Pride of Jai that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone left inside. The Gods declare...
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