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41) Variable star
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Princess Rory Thorne must use the fairy blessings gifted to her at birth to change the multiverse--or possibly destroy it. How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse is a feminist reimagining of familiar fairytale tropes and a story of resistance and self-determination--how small acts of rebellion can lead a princess to not just save herself, but change the course of history.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Astrid seeks to bring down the Sisterhood from within, while, on an outlaw colony station deep in space, Hiro val Akira seeks to bring a dangerous ally into the rebellion, and Lito sol Lucius continues to grow into his role as lead revolutionary.
46) Dark star
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dark Star is a futuristic scoutship traveling far in advance of colony ships. Armed with Exponential Thermostellar bombs, it prowls the unstable planets. But there is one obstacle that its' crewmembers did not count on--one of the ship's thinking and talking bombs is lodged in the bay, threatening to destroy the entire ship and crew.
47) 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...
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Six months from now, detailed schematics anonymously uploaded to the Internet will describe, in perfect detail, how to build a faster-than-light engine for $200 in easily-available parts. Space travel will become instantly--and chaotically--democratized. The entire cosmos will be within reach of all humankind. This comics anthology is what happens next"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Empire is dead. Nearly two decades after the Battle of Endor, the tattered remnants of Palpatine's forces have fled to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. But for the heroes of the New Republic, danger and loss are ever-present companions, even in this newly forged era of peace. Jedi Master Luke Skywalker is haunted by visions of the dark side, foretelling an ominous secret growing somewhere in the depths of space, on a dead world called Exegol....
Author
Series
Farian war volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Hail confronts the Farian gods, the last thing she expected was to discover that they were part of a race of aliens who'd attacked the galaxy long before humanity's ancestors had crawled out of the sludge of Earth's oceans. The discovery carries with it dire news: The Hiervet, who'd once subjugated the mighty Svatir, are coming - a consequence of Hail's decision not to kill the Farian gods. Now the fate of the galaxy is on the line and Hail...
53) Immunity
Author
Series
Contagion duology volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thea, Coen, and Nova have been rescued-- but it's only the beginning of their nightmare. After being imprisoned on a ship they thought was their ticket to safety, they discover the entire galaxy is at risk. To prevent an interstellar catastrophe, the survivors must harness the evil of the deadly Achlys contagion and deploy the only weapon they have left: themselves. -- adapted from jacket
54) 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...
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Ace mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 356 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife leads a reconnaissance mission of the vast uncharted regions of space. No one, least of all Kris, expects to find a hostile alien starship. Now, she must determine the extent of the alien threat-and whether to start an interstellar war"--From Novelist.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Ace mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an alien race warns them that an unidentifiable force is roaming the galaxy, destroying everything in its path towards human space, Kris Longknife and her crew must take on new roles in order to combat this unknown threat.
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
8 DVDs (approximately 29 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
English
Description
A band of soldiers, scientists and civilians must fend for themselves when their hidden base comes under attack and they are forced through a Stargate. The survivors emerge about an Ancient ship, the Destiny, which is locked on an unknown course and unable to return to Earth. Together, the group must unlock the secrets of the ship's Stargate to survive, but the danger, adventure and hope they find on board will reveal the heroes and villains among...
Publisher
Paramount Home Media Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 671 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Michael Burnham, formerly one of Starfleet's most respected first officers, is now its first mutineer. A human raised as a Vulcan, Burnham learned early that "all life is born from chaos." Her defiance of a direct order resulted in an all-out war with the Klingon Empire, and she was sentenced to life in prison--until Captain Gabriel Lorca recruits her aboard the U.S.S. Discovery. Joining her on this epic journey are First Officer Saru, Chief of Security...
60) Knight
Author
Series
Sibyl's war volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A legend of Space Opera is back with the second book in the Sibyl's War. Nicole Hammond was just trying to survive on the streets of Philadelphia, then she and her partner Bungie were abducted by a race of mysterious moth-like aliens and taken to a strange ship called the Fyrantha. Now she is a Sibyl, a special human that has the ability to communicate with the aliens and their ship, and no one is happy. Competing factions control different parts...
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