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82) Precursor
Author
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The human and atevi species join forces to rearm an ancient human space station in order to fend off an alien attack, in a sequel to the Foreigner trilogy
83) Wyrms
Author
Language
English
Description
Serving a usurper who has destroyed her family and rules their space-dwelling sphere home, Patience journeys to the heart of her world in order to reclaim her crown, a quest that may spell salvation or destruction for the cosmos.
85) Hellhole
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
On a colonized planet called Hellhole, defeated and exiled rebel General Tiber Adolphus continues his honorable opposition to the political scheming and selfish machinations of the Crown Jewel worlds and grandmotherly Diadem Michella Duchenet. Adolphus and his companions work in secret to undermine the royal space travel monopoly and form a coalition of Deep Zone planets.
86) Freedom's choice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Kris Bjornson, one of a group of slaves dumped on an uninhabited planet by their Catteni masters, learns to survive with the help of renegade exile Zainal, but when the time comes to join in a revolution against the Catteni, she is torn between her love for Zainal and her desire to return to Earth.
87) Freedom's ransom
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
88) Chaos walking
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the not too distant future, Todd Hewitt discovers Viola, a mysterious girl who crash lands on his planet, where all the women have disappeared and the men are afflicted by 'the Noise,' a force that puts all their thoughts on display. In this dangerous landscape, Viola's life is threatened, and as Todd vows to protect her, he will have to discover his own inner power and unlock the planet's dark secrets.
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Beginning with the role religion played in the lives of believers in West Africa, eastern North America, and western Europe in about 1500, author Carla Gardina Pestana shows how the Protestant Reformation helped to fuel colonial expansion as bitter rivalries prompted a fierce competition for souls. -- from publisher description.
93) Variable star
Author
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein.
94) Voyagers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women, bred for intelligence and obedience, embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. But when they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends into chaos, they are consumed by fear, lust, and the insatiable hunger for power.
95) The precipice
Author
Series
Asteroid wars volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
97) Proxima
Author
Series
Proxima volume 1
Publisher
ROC, Published by the Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Mankind's future in this galaxy could be all but infinite ... There are hundreds of billions of red dwarf stars, lasting trillions of years--and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. And its promise could mean the never-ending existence of humanity. But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. There is no glamor that accompanies it, like being the first man on the moon, nor is there...
98) Space colonies
Author
Series
Publisher
G. Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
SF masterworks volume 72
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Overview: Robert A. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. Delany notes, "modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean." He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered...