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Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 07
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series. AN OLD ENEMY RETURNS In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter,...
5) Zoe's tale
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world recounts how she became a pawn in a dangerous interstellar confrontation during which she was forced to use her wits and make terrible sacrifices in order to save the human race.
Author
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of the colonization of Africa by European countries, from the early invasions of the Portugese and the Dutch, to the establishment of the slave trade, to the extensive holdings of the British Empire of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
10) Singularity sky
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Language
English
Description
In a world transformed by the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence, the colony of New Republic, founded by people who wanted no part of the technological revolution, is threatened by an information plague of advanced technology.
11) Half a life
Author
Language
English
Description
The son of a man who, inspired by Ghandi, married below his caste, travels to New York where he struggles to find his identity and forge a career as a writer.
13) The vaster wilds
Author
Language
English
Description
"A servant girl escapes from a colonial settlement in the wilderness. She carries nothing with her but her wits, a few possessions, and the spark of god that burns hot within her. What she finds in this terra incognita is beyond the limits of her imagination and will bend her belief in everything that her own civilization has taught her. Lauren Groff's new novel is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a...
15) Revelation space
Author
Series
Inhibitor trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes...
Author
Series
Fractalverse novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 47
Language
English
Description
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira Navárez finds an alien relic. At first delighted, her elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into...
19) Dragonflight
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Lessa is ready to come out of hiding and reclaim her birthright, but first she must save the planet of Pern from the deadly silver Threads.