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2) New Earth
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Award-winning author Ben Bova brings us New Earth, his latest tale of science fiction in his Grand Tour series.
The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth.
All of the explorers understand that...
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Hugo Award winner Charles Stross delivers a brilliant space opera replete with groundbreaking concepts and energized by an imaginative vision of the future. In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the Eschaton altered the course of humankind. Now, far off in the vastness of space, the technology-eschewing New Republic is besieged by an alien information plague. Earth...
5) Crossfire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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In the early nineties, Nancy Kress took the SF world by storm with her multiple award-winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," which became the basis for her extremely successful Sleepless Trilogy (comprising Beggars in Spain, Beggars and Choosers, and Beggars Ride). Since then she has written more than a dozen novels, including the well-received Probability Trilogy, which Booklist praised saying "Kress's characterizations are as sound as ever, but many...
6) Iron sunrise
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Not only is Charles Stross' Iron Sunrise a science fiction masterpiece, it's also a thriller with a cyberpunk heart. PlanetMoscow is vaporized by an unnatural star explosion, prompting those who escaped to counterattack the likely culprit-planet New Dresden of the neighboring system. But New Dresden wasn't to blame, and as worlds go to war, an unseen enemy labors to destroy the universe itself.
7) Moonfall
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It's the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems.
Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm. Below, the world is marveling at a rare solar eclipse.
But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an amateur astronomer discovers a new...
8) Crucible
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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Now comes a brand new science fiction epic.
It began with Crossfire: a far-future novel of planetary colonization and alien first contact. Jake Holman, a man trying to escape a dark past, brought together a diverse group of thousands to settle on a new world. But instead the humans found themselves caught in the crossfire of a galaxy-spanning war between two disparate species: agressive, militaristic humanoids known as Furs and passive, plantlike...
9) Dark as day
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Set in the universe as Sheffield's previous novel Cold As Ice, Dark As Day is a hard science fiction novel set 30 years after the Great War, and interplanetary war that nearly destroyed the entire human race, and left horrifyingly dangerous weapons caches to threaten human survival.
The Solar System is finally recovering from the Great War, a war that devastated the planets and nearly wiped out the human race, and the population of the outer moons,...
10) Freedom's ransom
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
11) Revelation space
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Revelation space universe volume 1
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Ace Books
Pub. Date
2001
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English
13) The precipice
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Asteroid wars volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
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Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Precipice.
Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left--the company...
14) Freedom's choice
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
15) Dragonsdawn
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Dragonriders of Pern volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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The beautiful planet Pern seemed a paradise to its new colonists-a return to an agrarian way of life-until unimaginable terror turned it into hell. Lethal spores began to fall like silvery thread-like rain from the sky, vaporizing everything-and everyone-in their path. The colony, cut off from Earth and lacking the resources to combat the menace, was doomed. The colonists noticed that small, dragon-like lizards in their new world were joining the...
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2014.
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After the events of Hellhole Awakening, the people of Hellhole and the shadow-Xayans scramble to rally against the threat from the still-living rogue Xayans. Back on Sonjeera, the Monarchy is in an uproar after their surprising defeat and the breakaway of the Deep Zone planets. The dowager Queen decides to go to Hellhole on a diplomatic mission, hoping to keep her power. But after touring Hellhole, Queen Michella is shaken, and begins to
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