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21) Guild boss
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English
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When an energy Curtain opened in the vicinity of Earth, making interstellar travel practical for the first time, thousands of eager colonists headed out to create new homes. Welcome to Illusion Town, on the colony world of Harmony. Weddings are still the highlight of any social calendar, but Lucy Bell was kidnapped and drugged as she left the party. Escaping, she becomes in the alien underground maze of glowing green tunnels beneath Illusion Town....
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Finalist for the Hugo Award • “Ofelia—tough, kind, wise and unwise, fond of food, tired of foolish people—is one of the most probable heroines science fiction has ever known.”—Ursula K. Le Guin
For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia’s home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her...
For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has been Ofelia’s home. On this planet far away in space and time from the world of her youth, she has lived and loved, weathered the death of her husband, raised her...
23) Dark age
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English
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For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still salvage the dream of Eo. But as he leaves death and destruction in his wake, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will another legend rise to take his place? Lysander au Lune, the heir in exile, has returned to the Core. Determined to bring peace back to mankind...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
When the Great Waves destroyed Tempe's planet, its people had to learn to survive living on the water. Tempe dives daily into the ruins, scavenging for anything of value to trade for Notes: she's trying to buy her dead sister's life. For a price, the research facility on the island of Palindromena will revive the departed for twenty-four hours before returning them to death. Tempe wants answers: Elysea knew a secret about their parents' death. But...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Take off beyond Earth's boundaries for the ultimate tour of our solar system. From Mars' monstrous mountains to Saturn's glittering rings, the sights are out of this world. Each hour offers breathtaking tours of the planets using modern-day high-tech telescopes and stunning CGI.
26) Inheritor
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English
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The third novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…
Six months have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix—the same ship which brought a colony of humans to the hostile environment of alien atevi nearly two hundred years ago. During these six months, the atevi have reconfigured their fledgling space...
Six months have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix—the same ship which brought a colony of humans to the hostile environment of alien atevi nearly two hundred years ago. During these six months, the atevi have reconfigured their fledgling space...
27) Defender
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English
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The fifth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…
Nearly ten years after the unexpected return of the starship Phoenix, the alien atevi have three functioning space shuttles, and teams of atevi engineers labor in orbit to renovate the space station. But these monumental advances not only add a dangerously powerful third...
Nearly ten years after the unexpected return of the starship Phoenix, the alien atevi have three functioning space shuttles, and teams of atevi engineers labor in orbit to renovate the space station. But these monumental advances not only add a dangerously powerful third...
28) The planets
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
Description
Featuring all-new 3D models built using data gathered by NASA and the European Space Agency.
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Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"It is now known that we live in a galaxy with more planets than stars. The Milky Way alone encompasses 30 trillion potential home planets. Scientists Trefil and Summers bring readers on a marvelous experimental voyage through the possibilities of life--unlike anything we have experienced so far--that could exist on planets outside our own solar system. Life could be out there in many forms: on frozen worlds, living in liquid oceans beneath ice and...
32) Childhood's end
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English
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The author questions the survival of mankind in this science fiction tale about Overlords from outer space who dominate the world.
33) The planets
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1999.
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240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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English
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 213 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Kaufman details the incredible true story of science's search for the beginnings of life on Earth and the probability that it exists elsewhere in the universe.
36) Planets
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Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
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English
Description
Offers a detailed look at the heavenly bodies that make up the solar system, describing the eight planets that orbit the Sun, the moons, asteroids, and dwarf planets in the system, and the spacecrafts humans have created to explore the stars.
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Publisher
Current
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
vii, 294 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
An intimate history of Earth and the quest for life beyond the solar system traces the discoveries of thousands of "exoplanets" throughout the past two years, including some with Earth-like characteristics that could possibly support life.
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Bloomsbury sigma volume 16
Publisher
Bloomsbury Sigma
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
Ultimately, we need to figure out what is next for humanity. Our logical move is to break free of the confines of the Earth and colonise another body in the Solar System, such as the Moon or Mars. How and when will we do this? Or is it all just science fiction? These questions, in a nutshell, make up the core of astrobiology--the study of the origins and evolution and biology of life elsewhere in the universe, and the search for it. This book is an...
39) Abandoned
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English
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The sequel to Outpost finds the colonists and enforcers on the treacherous alien planet of Donovan further imperiled by corporate greed, dwindling resources, harsh natural threats, and their own desperate choices. Supervisor Kalico Aguila has bet everything on a fragile settlement far south of Port Authority, carving a farm and a mine out of the wilderness. Then, a murderous peril descends out of Donovan's sky -- one that will leave Kalico bleeding...
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My teacher is an alien volume 1
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English
Description
Uneasy about her new substitute teacher, Susan Simmons' suspicions about Mr. Smith are confirmed when she discovers he is an alien determined to bring some sixth-grade specimens back to his planet.
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