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Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The discovery of an impending supernova of the Romulan home star leads Captain Picard to a promotion and removal from command of the 'Enterprise'. As Admiral Picard, he will lead a task force from his flagship, the U.S.S. 'Verity', in transporting Romulan refugees to safe havens outside the blast radius. His mission will stick in the throats of many in Starfleet Command, who find his mission futile and vainglorious."
Author
Series
Publisher
a Tor Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The epic and mind-blowing finale to this visionary space opera series surpasses all expectation: Menelaus Montrose, having forged an uneasy alliance with his immortal adversary, Ximen del Azarchel, maps a future on a scale beyond anything previously imagined. No longer concerned with the course of history across mere millennia, Montrose and del Azarchel have become the architects of aeons, bringing forth minds the size of planets as they steer the...
63) The empress game
Author
Series
Empress Game trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One seat on the intergalactic Sakien Empire's supreme ruling body, the Council of Seven, remains unfilled, that of the Empress Apparent. The seat isn't won by votes or marriage. It's won in a tournament of ritualized combat in the ancient tradition. Now that tournament, the Empress Game, has been called and the females of the empire will stop at nothing to secure political domination for their homeworlds. The battle for political power isn't contained...
Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
587 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael D. O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos...
65) Arkhangelsk
Author
Publisher
House Panther Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Head peace officer Anya Savelova believed her people, living on a hostile planet in the ice-bound city of Novayarkha, were the last of humanity. Until the day she learned they weren't. When a starship from an Earth thought long dead appears in orbit over her world, Anya imagines an explosion of possible futures, offering her people the freedom to transcend the limiting environment of the planet they'd thought was their last refuge. In the starship's...
66) Vessel: a novel
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After astronaut Catherine Wells's ship undergoes a catastrophic event and loses contact with NASA, the entire world believes her to be dead. Miraculously - and mysteriously - she survives, though everyone else on the mission is lost, as are most of Catherine's memories of her time in space. Her reentry after a decade away is a turbulent one: her husband has moved on with another woman, and the young daughter she left behind has grown into a teenager...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alpha Station, orbiting the world of the atevi, has taken aboard five thousand human refugees from a destroyed station in a distant sector of space. With supplies and housing stretched to the breaking point, it is clear that the refugees must be relocated down to the planet, and soon. But not to the atevi mainland: rather to the territory reserved for humans, the island of Mospheira. Tabini-aiji, the powerful political head of the atevi, tasks his...
Author
Series
Sibyl's war volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nicole Hammond's life is going nowhere. No family, no money, and stuck in a relationship with a thug named Bungie. But after one of Bungie's 'deals' goes south, he and Nicole are whisked away by a mysterious mothlike humanoid to a strange ship called the Fyrantha. Once aboard, life on the ship seems too good to be true. All she has to do is work on one of the ship's many maintenance crews. However, she learned long ago that nothing comes without a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"John C. Wright burst upon the SF scene a decade ago with the Golden Age trilogy, an innovative space opera. He went on to write fantasy novels, including the popular Orphans of Chaos trilogy. And now he returns to space opera in Count to a Trillion. After the collapse of the world economy, a young boy grows up in what used to be Texas as a tough duellist for hire, the future equivalent of a hired gun. But even after the collapse, there is space travel,...
Author
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The galaxy is divided. Following the shocking destruction of Starlight Beacon, the Nihil have established an impenetrable barrier called the Stormwall around part of the Outer Rim, where Marchion Ro rules and his followers wreak havoc at his every whim. Jedi trapped behind enemy lines, including Avar Kriss, must fight to help the worlds being pillaged by the Nihil while staying one step ahead of the marauders and their Nameless terrors. Outside the...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport, Idaho, today, and on a spaceship bound for a distant exoplanet decades from now, an ancient text provides solace and the most profound human connection to characters in peril. They all learn the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to the paradise of Cloud Cuckoo Land, a better world. Twelve-year-old Anna lives in a convent where women...
73) Children of time
Author
Series
Children of time volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied....
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend for herself, alone on a ship full of the beings who murdered...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The year is 10,515 AD. The Hyades Armada, traveling at near lightspeed, will reach Earth in just four centuries to assess humanity's value as slaves. For the last 8,000 years, two opposing factions have labored to meet the alien threat in very different ways. One of them is Ximen del Azarchel, immortal leader of the mutineers from the starship Hermetic and self-appointed Master of the World, who has allowed his followers to tamper continuously with...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 568 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Delve into the cutthroat world of one of the High Republic's greatest foes, the merciless Lourna Dee, in this full script for the Star Wars audio original Tempest Runner. The Nihil storm has raged through the galaxy, leaving chaos and grief in its wake. Few of its raiders are as vicious as the Tempest Runner Lourna Dee. She stays one step ahead of the Jedi Order at the helm of a vessel named after one of the deadliest monsters in the galaxy: herself....
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
883 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three books in one: this paperback collects Ken MacLeod's Corporation Wars trilogy - Dissidence, Insurgence and Emergence - in which man and machine compete at the far reaches of space in this robot's eye view of a robot revolt."--
79) The Icarus job
Author
Series
Icarus saga volume 3
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye. Usually, those hunts are long...
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