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Space Odyssey series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
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A special new Introduction by the author highlights this reissue of a classic science fiction novel that changed the way people looked at the stars--and themselves. 2001: A Space Odyssey inspired what is perhaps the greatest science fiction film ever made--brilliantly imagined by the late Stanley Kubrick ... 2001 is finally here.
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English
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"So, an elder god hatched, destroying your planet and killing the love of your life. Would you be depressed? Would you want revenge? Would you just go fishing for the big bastard in your spacefaring house off the Iraq Nebula, aided by the inbuilt computer-generated assistant and an alien who crashed into you...of course you would"--
Author
Series
Kystrom chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Refugee, criminal, and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can't refuse: life in prison, 'voluntary' military service--or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it's destroyed in a supernova...In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days and the terrible secret...
4) Suborbital⁷
Author
Publisher
Alcon Publishing, Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A routine rescue mission leaves a team of US soldiers, rescued hostages, and a prisoner trapped above Earth in a suborbital craft ... Lieutenant Art Burkett is called up to take part in a rescue mission. Three scientists have been kidnapped by the terrorist group Thieves in Law. The rescue is swift ... But Thieves in Law are not the only people looking for them. Art and his team must fight an ever-growing threat before time runs out for them, and...
Author
Publisher
Aethon Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"An AI overseer and a human crew arrive on a distant planet to salvage an ancient UN starship. The overseer is unhappy. The crew, well, they're certainly no A-team. Not even a C-team on the best of days. And worse? Urmahon Beta, the planet, is at the ass-end of nowhere. Everybody expects this to be a long, ugly, and thankless job. Then it all goes disastrously wrong. What they thought was an uninhabited backwater turns out to be anything but empty....
Author
Series
White space volume 1
Language
English
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"Elizabeth Bear won the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer in 2005 and has since published 15 novels and numerous short stories. She writes in both the SF and fantasy genres and has won critical acclaim in both. She has won the Hugo award more than once. She lives in Massachusetts. Visit her on Twitter @matociquala"--
"Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is...
7) Providence
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson are astronauts captaining a new and supposedly indestructible ship in humanity's war against an alien race. Confined to the ship for years, each of them holding their own secrets, they are about to learn there are threats beyond the reach of human ingenuity--and that the true nature of reality might be the universe's greatest mystery. In this near future, our world is at war with another, and humanity is haunted...
Author
Publisher
Nightfire
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls. "A perfect scare to swallow up in one sitting." -Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights. As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears'...
9) The deep sky
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind-except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of...
10) Spin
Author
Series
Captain Chase novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between...
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