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1) Code to zero
Author
Language
English
Description
In this classic Cold War thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett puts his own electrifying twist on the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As the clock counts down to a shocking climax, "Code to Zero's split-second suspense proves that . . . [Follett is] still a hell of a storyteller" (Entertainment Weekly).
January, 1958—the darkest hour of the Cold War and...
January, 1958—the darkest hour of the Cold War and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Ryland Grace has been asleep for a very, very long time. He's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. Alone on this tiny ship that's been cobbled together by every government and space agency on the planet and hurled into the depths of space, it's up to him to conquer an extinction-level threat...
4) Undying
Author
Series
Unearthed volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Trapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from what they've learned there, scavenger Mia and academic Jules are plunged into a desperate race to warn their home planet of the danger humanity's greed has unleashed"--
Author
Series
January dancer volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One-time Confederal agent Donovan Buigh is recalled to take part in a secret civil war of sabotage and assassination being waged within the Lion's Mouth, the bureau that oversees the Shadows.
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 5
Language
English
Description
The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.
8) Earthbound
Author
Series
Marsbound novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
The mysterious alien Others have prohibited humans from space travel--destroying Earth's fleet of starships in a display of unimaginable power. Now Carmen Dula, the first human to encounter Martians and then the mysterious Others, and her colleagues struggle to find a way, using nineteenth-century technology, to reclaim the future that has been stolen from them.
11) Revenger
Author
Series
Revenger novels volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Formats
Description
A science fiction adventure story set in the rubble of our solar system in the dark, distant future - a tale of space pirates, buried treasure and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism . . . and of vengeance.
12) Aurora rising
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 1
Language
English
Description
2380. The graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch, from a sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates to an alien warrior with anger management issues. But Ty's biggest problem is Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley, who he just rescued from interdimensional...
13) Aurora's end
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"When we last saw Squad 312, they working together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally. But as it turns out, not all endings are endings, and the team has one last chance to rewrite theirs. Maybe two. It's complicated. Cue Zila, Fin, and Scarlett (and MAGELLAN!): making friends, making enemies, and making history? Sure,...
14) The long Utopia
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Language
English
Description
"2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, and disguised as a human attempts to live a 'normal' life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend, Joshua, now in his fifties, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history....
15) Winds of marque
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a dense star sluster, the solar winds blow fiercely. The star-sailing ship HMSS Daring runs at full sheet on a secret mission from the Emperor himself: to hunt down and destroy a festering pirate threat. Armed with a letter of marque allowing them to collect the bounty of enemy vessels, the crew has been told to find the pirates' base by any means necessary."--Publisher description.
16) Dead silence
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-- made obsolete-- when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire...
17) The fated sky
Author
Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process"--
18) Voyage
Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
20) First landing
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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