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Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Hugo and Nebula Award Winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense, hard-SF appraoch to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high society in this stylish SF mystery. Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon via an interplanetary space liner. Cruising between the Moon and Mars, she's traveling incognito and reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and the festering chowderheads who run...
3) Dino brained
Publisher
Wownow Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A dinosaur and his sidekick on a mission, Fang and Scale pilot their spaceship through the galaxy on a dizzying quest for knowledge! When they connect with the interstellar teacher, Professor Claw, their smarts are turbo-boosted out of this world! Ride along on the journey of a lifetime with friends, Fang and Scale as they prove that learning never goes extinct!
Author
Series
Final six volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Set in the near future, this action-packed YA novel—already optioned by Sony Pictures—will take readers out of this world and on a quest to become one of six teens sent on a mission to Jupiter’s moon. This is the next must-read for fans of Illuminae and The Martian.
Author
Series
Serenity volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Narrates the background story of Shepherd Book, a crew member of the starship Serenity, who, after being discharged from the Alliance following a failed mission, enters a monastery and decides to come aboard the Serenity as a missionary.
Author
Series
Serenity volume 4
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
12 yrs+.
Mal and his crew take on a heist that promises a big payoff. But when one of Serenity's crew is taken captive and tortured, the gang must put their enduring differences aside and work together to save one of their own, even if it means losing the cash prize of a lifetime!
13) The Cerulean
Author
Series
Cerulean duology volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Amy Ewing (The Jewel) comes the exciting first book in a new fantasy duology. Rich, vivid world-building and ethereal magic combine in an epic tale that's perfect for fans of Snow Like Ashes, These Broken Stars, or Magonia.
Sera Lighthaven has always felt as if she didn't quite belong among her people, the Cerulean, who live in the City Above the Sky. She is curious about everything-especially the planet that...
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Language
English
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Description
Adapted for a magnificent George Roy Hill film three years later (perhaps the only film adaptation of a masterpiece which exceeds its source), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) is the now famous parable of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran and POW, who has in the later stage of his life become "unstuck in time" and who experiences at will (or unwillingly) all known events of his chronology out of order and sometimes simultaneously.
Traumatized
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Series
Railhead volume 2
Publisher
Switch Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Zen Starling, a small-time thief, and Nova, an android girl come from the Network Empire, whose stations are scattered across the galaxy and linked by the K-gates and the sentient trains travel at light speed between them--but the gate through which they just passed was a new one, and they have no way of knowing into what danger it might have led them.
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Go on five fun-filled adventures with Bula, Zeeter Multo, Gorga, Wizzy, and Wigg as they search for stolen frog eggs, restore life in the canyon on Zula, solve the mystery of the missing honey, and tunnel through the dirt with their new worm boot camp comrades to save the ecosystem, all while an alien invasion tries to take over planet Zula. Includes a sing-along song.
17) High life
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
18) The autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard: the story of one of Starfleet's most inspirational captains
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
19) John Carter
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A war-weary former military captain is inexplicably transported to Mars and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
Author
Series
Albert Hopper science hero volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Professor Albert Hopper, frog and Science Hero, travels with his niece Polly and nephew Tad throughout the solar system, exploring the sun, asteroids and comets, and the planets.
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