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1) I, robot
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
The development of robot technology to a state of perfection by future civilizations is explored in nine science fiction stories.
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English
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Influential American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick was fascinated by the idea of nuclear warfare and the dire aftermath of such an event. This scenario preoccupied Dick throughout much of his career and served as the backdrop to many of his stories and novels. In the short story Second Variety, the human population has been decimated by nuclear war, and small tribes of survivors are forced to battle a species of lethal robot soldiers.
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Soldier and adventurer John Carter tells the story of how he returns to the planet Mars to be reunited with his love, the Martian princess Dejah Thoris. With his great friend Tars Tarkas, mighty Jeddak of Thark, Carter sets out in search of his princess. But Dejah Thoris has vanished. And Carter becomes trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars, from which none has ever escaped alive.
4) Xenocide
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
The Starways Congress decides that the deadly virus on Lusitania must be wiped out and sends a fleet to destroy it. After the fleet disappears, Gloriously Bright is selected to solve the mystery.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
In a futuristic military adventure a recruit goes through the roughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry in what historians would come to call the First Interstellar War
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury--a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful:...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Stories of your life and others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change -- the inevitable rise of automations or the appearance of aliens -- while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy.
10) Dragonsong
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Menolly has only one dream. She wishes to become a Harper so that she can sing, play, and weave the music that comes to her so easily. In the world of Pern, women are seen as unworthy of such a respected position. So despite her great talents, Menolly's father forbids her to pursue her dreams. Unable to live without music, Menolly runs away, taking shelter in a cave by the sea. Miraculously, she happens upon a hatch of fire lizards, a species of miniature...
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In "Gulf," the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't quite decide what to do with the rest of us. "Elsewhen" deals with the nature of Being. In "Lost legacy" it is proved that we are all members of that league--or would be, if we but had eyes to see. "Jerry was a man" deals with what it means to be a man.
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Series
Safehold volume 2
Language
English
Description
Despite the implacable hostility of the Church of God Awaiting, Charis still stands, still free, still tolerant, still an island of innovation in a world in which the Church has worked for centuries to keep humanity locked at a medieval level of existence. But the powerful men who run the Church aren't going to take their defeat lying down. Charis may control the world's seas, but it barely has an army worthy of the name. And as King Cayleb knows,...
14) Worlds of Honor
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English
Description
David Weber and his guests invite you to return to Honor Harrington's universe. Join young starship captain Honor and her treecat Nimitz as they face hostile weather, a hostile superior on a rescue mission, and more.
15) Leviathan wakes
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English
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When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
16) A civil campaign
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English
Description
Lord Miles Vorkosigan has a new challenge to put his skills learned from his late career in galactic covert ops, win the heart of the object of his unrequited love, the beautiful Vor widow Ekaterin Voriosson, who is violently allergic to marriage.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monáe and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monáe such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts-as a means of self-conception-could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life...
19) Dragonsinger
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Series
Harper Hall trilogy volume 2
Harper Hall of Pern trilogy volume 2
Dragonriders of Pern volume 4
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Harper Hall of Pern trilogy volume 2
Dragonriders of Pern volume 4
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under the Masterharper learning that more is required than a facility with music and a clever way with words. Sequel to Dragonsong.
Menolly--Mistress of Fire Lizards, Apprentice of Harper Hall. Menolly arrived in triumph at the Harper Hall, aboard a bronze dragon. She had run away from home and lived in a cave, outrun the dread Threadfall, impressed nine fire lizards and written songs...
20) Caliban's war
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Language
English
Description
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of...