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Expanse volume 3
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English
Description
An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core.
2) Anathem
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English
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A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Anathem is perhaps the most brilliant literary invention to date from the incomparable Neal Stephenson, who rocked the world with Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and The Baroque Cycle. Now he imagines an alternate universe where scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians live in seclusion behind ancient monastery walls until they are called back into the world to deal with a crisis of astronomical proportions.
...3) Cibola burn
Author
Series
Expanse volume 4
Language
English
Description
"The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule. But Holden and his crew must also contend with the...
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Foundation series volume 4
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English
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Although small and seemingly helpless, the Foundation had managed to survive against the greed of its neighboring warlords. But could it stand against the mighty power of the Empire, who had created a mutant man with the strength of a dozen battlefleets ...?
5) Dragon's kin
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Series
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English
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Beginning with the classic Dragonrider of Pern, Anne McCaffrey has created a complex, endlessly fascinating world uniting humans and great telepathic dragons. Millions of devoted readers have soared on the glittering wings of Anne's imagination, following book by book the evolution of one of science fiction's most beloved and honored series. Now, for the first time, Anne has invited another writer to join her in the skies of Pern, a writer with an...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Futuristic speculation combines with murder when a scientific expedition on a faraway planet searches for an alien species only to be stalked by a determined killer who may be a hostile alien or a member of their own team.
8) Dragonheart
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 27
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009, ©2008
Language
English
Description
When young Fiona is asked to take on the role of Weyrwoman, she soon discovers the challenges of her new position, from unexpected perils to the possibility of losing her own dragon to the sickness that has claimed others.
9) Dragonseye
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Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 17
Language
English
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Description
On the planet Pern, two farseeing dragon riders train their troops--mounted on genetically engineered dragons--for the battle with the Thread, an evil force. Portents of all sorts, including violent storms and erupting volcanos, point to the Thread's coming, but most of the planet prefers to ignore them, lulled into complacency by 200 years of peace.
10) The Chanur saga
Author
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
Little does Tully know when he throws himself on the mercy of the crew of The Pride that he is putting the entire hani species in jeopardy and imperiling the peace of the Compact.
11) Dragon's time
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 29
Publisher
Del Rey Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Weyrwoman Fiona struggles to keep her surviving Weyr in fighting shape while Lorana plans a complicated time-travel journey to save their world.
12) Dragon Harper
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Series
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English
Description
As a deadly epidemic sweeps across the land of Pern, only Kindan, a young apprentice to the guild of musicians and teachers known as the Harpers, recognizes the imminent peril and must come up with a way to stop the illness from spreading.
13) Dragon's fire
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Series
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English
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When a mine containing firestone, the mineral that gives the dragons of Pern their ability to breathe fire, explodes, killing the miners trapped there, young Cristov volunteers to take over the dangerous task of retrieving the explosive rock for the dragons.
14) Fear the alien
Series
Publisher
Black Library
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"The Imperium of Man has many enemies among the stars, but none are reviled so much as the Alien. Across the universe, humanity and thier defenders, the Space Marines, seek to eradicate these threats. Fear the Alien features some of the Black Library's best-known authors plus exciting new talent with a range of stories about the on-going war with the Xenos"--Amazon.Com.
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Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
After suffering a series of cataclysmic events, the Federation, Klingon Empire, and Romulan Empire struggle to recover. But mysterious events continue to destabilize the allies. One man, Sonek Pran, a diplomat and adviser to the Federation President, perceives a pattern in the seeming randomness. As each new piece of evidence falls into place, a disturbing picture begins to take shape ... revealing a challenge to the Federation and its allies utterly...
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Publisher
Abaddon Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Satan{u2019}s Reach is the second volume in the Weird Space series, a fast-paced action-adventure that pits humanity against the unimaginable Terror from Beyond. A thrilling Space Opera series created by master SF author Eric Brown.Telepath Den Harper did the dirty work for the authoritarian Expansion, reading the minds of criminals, spies and undesirables. Unable to take the strain, he stole a starship and headed into the unknown, a sector of lawless...
17) Survival
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Series
Publisher
Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The Star Quest series continues with Survival. A "human team sent to scout a few hundred light years in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. The sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons, and have survived earlier "death waves," gamma ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm...
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English
Description
All seems well on Pern until a mysterious ailment strikes killing myriads of holders, craftsmen, and dragonriders. Pern is left in mortal danger with no one to rise to char the prarasitic Thread. The dragonriders of Pern are in danger from a mutated strain of influenza.
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"For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague-a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice. Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased...
20) Foundation
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English
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One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory,...
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