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21) To the stars
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Description
In an uncertain future when the first space explorers are traveling through the galaxy, engineer Alan Corday is forced onto one of the starships against his will and must serve both the ship and Earth's struggling space colonies
Author
Series
Dune (Graphic novels) volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
In [this book], the second of three volumes adapting Frank Herbert's Dune, a young Paul Atreides and his mother, the lady Jessica, find themselves stranded in the deep desert of Arrakis. Betrayed by one of their own and destroyed by their greatest enemy, Paul and Jessica must find the mysterious Fremen, or perish.
24) Space and beyond
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Series
Choose your own adventure volume 4
Appears on list
Description
The reader is taken aboard a space cruiser to research two different planets and can choose between alternative adventures, each leading to forty-two possible endings.
25) Dragon pearl
Author
Series
Thousand worlds volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
"Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces."--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
The daughter of two astronauts, Romy Silvers is no stranger to life in space, but she never knew how isolating the universe could be until her parents tragic deaths left her alone on the Infinity, a spaceship speeding away from Earth. Romy tries to make the best of her lonely situation, but with only brief messages from her therapist on Earth to keep her company, she cant help but feel like something is missing. It seems like a dream come true when...
27) The return
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Description
On July 20, 1969, Buzz Aldrin, along with crewmate Neil Armstrong, made history as they placed humankind's first steps on the moon. Now, in The return, written with award-winning novelist John Barnes, Aldrin offers a compelling novel about the opportunities and dangers that confront us today--and shows why we must, and will, seize the challenges before us.
28) Space
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Description
Engineer Stanley Mott, astronomy student John Pope, naval hero Norman Grant, and rocket engineer Dieter Kolff serve as principals in the forty-year history of America's space program and share the complex drama with numerous others.
29) Rocket Rescue
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
BB is selected from thousands of canididates to train for a trip Mars, but his first mission is into space to give emergency aid.
30) The hive
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Series
Second Formic War volume 2
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Description
Card and Johnston continue the science fiction history of the Formic Wars―the alien invasions of Earth’s Solar System that ultimately led to Ender Wiggin’s total victory in Ender's Game. A coalition of Earth’s nations barely fought off the Formics’ first scout ship. Now it’s clear that there’s a mother-ship out on edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earth’s warring nations and corporations put...
31) The disasters
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Appears on list
Description
Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.
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Series
First cat in space volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Something terrible is happening in the skies! Rats are eating the MOON! There's only ONE hero for the job, a bold and fearsome beast bioengineered in a secret lab to be the moon's savior and Earth's last hope! And that hero is ... a cat. A cat who will be blasted into space! Accompanied by the imperious Moon Queen and LOZ 4000, a toenail clipping robot, the First Cat in Space journeys across a fantastic lunar landscape in a quest to save the world....
33) Generation ship
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world's best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they've sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren't responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It's a time when the entire crew should be coming...
34) Sweep of stars
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Series
Astra Black volume 1
Description
"Maurice Broaddus's Sweep of Stars is the first in a trilogy that explores the end of an empire. Epic in scope and intimate in voice, it follows members of the Muungano empire - a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretches from O.E. (original earth) to Titan - as it faces an escalating series of threats. "The past, the present, and the future often collide with each other." -Stacia Chikeke, research captain of the star vessel Cipher What...
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Barque cats volume 1
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Description
From the team of Anne McCaffrey (author of Dragonriders of Pern series) and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Ann Scarborough comes a thrilling new science fiction tale featuring telepathic cats which are invaluable to the spacefarers who own them. Thomas's Duchess - or Chessie, to those who love and depend on her services - is no ordinary cat. She's a purebred Barque Cat, trained to patrol the ship on which she serves, sniffing out oxygen leaks...
36) Vorpal blade
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Series
Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 2
Description
Several years after an experiment that opened a gateway from central Florida into other dimensions, Doc Weaver, adapts an alien star drive to a nuclear submarine and creates humanity's first warp-capable star ship. The goal of Capt. Steven Blankemeier and Cmdr. Clay White of the Alliance Space Ship's is to scout out worlds contaminated by the alien Dreen.
Author
Series
Library of Ever volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"With her parents off traveling the globe, Lenora is bored, bored, bored -- until she discovers a secret doorway into the ultimate library. Mazelike and reality-bending, the library contains all the universe's wisdom. Every book ever written, and every fact ever known, can be found within its walls. And Lenora becomes its newly appointed Fourth Assistant Apprentice Librarian. She rockets to the stars, travels to a future filled with robots, and faces...
38) Neptune
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"In the outer settlements of the human-occupied solar system, there are rumors about what was found deep under Neptune's frozen seas when a Hungarian billionaire's ship was lost with all hands. But the rumors are far more tame than the reality. When the billionaire's daughter mounts a mission to find the truth, her discoveries will up-end humanity's understanding of our origins on Earth"--
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Series
Witches of Karres volume 3
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
After Captain Pausert and two Karres witches, Goth and The Leewit, realize they are being tracked by unknown forces in the Chaladoor region of space, Goth travels back in time to meet Pausert as a young boy, while, in present time, Pausert and The Leewit face a desperate situation.
40) Infinity beach
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
What happens when first contact goes horribly wrong? When that initial meeting between two sentient species leads to utter confusion and misunderstanding, murder and hijacking, and a tight-lipped coverup for years afterward? Jack McDevitt sets this situation up in Infinity Beach, describing humanity at the end of the third millennium as a solitary race, seemingly alone in the cosmos even after colonizing many worlds beyond Earth: "The universe has...
