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1) Half a life
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Willie, the child of a brahmin father and low caste mother, moves to London as an adult where he is able to hide the circumstances of his birth but loses all sense of himself, a fact that becomes clear after he moves to Africa with his mixed-race lover.
Author
Series
Virga volume 2
Language
English
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Description
With the Key of Candesce in her position, Venera Fanning lands on the ancient world of Spyre, where she initiates a war between the status quo and the reformists, and makes it her mission to seek revenge on the individuals responsible for her free fall.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Reid Malenfant, gambling that the exploration and colonization of space will provide a brighter future for the struggling inhabitants of Earth in 2010, builds a spacecraft to be piloted by the genetically enhanced Sheena 5, not realizing that Sheena has plans of her own.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Kris Bjornson, one of a group of slaves who was dumped on the planet Botany by the Eosi-dominated Catteni forces, has found a measure of contentment with her lover Zainal, but they both realize the time has come to gather forces to fight for liberation.
6) Halo
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Description
Presents four stories in comic-book format based on the popular Halo video game.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1997
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.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In the year 2070, a captain--R. E. Lee--and crew hijack their starship, "Alabama," on the day of its official launch, replace its intended passengers with political dissidents and their families, and set up a colony light-years away on a world named Coyote.
9) Morgan's run
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Richard Morgan, the refined son of a Bristol tavern-keeper finds himself consigned as a convict to the "First Fleet" which brought male and female prisoners to the newly discovered continent of Australia.
11) Galileo's dream
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Ganymede, a renegade amongst the colonists living on the moons of Jupiter, travels back in time to bring Galileo Galilei from Renaissance Italy into the future to ensure influence of science over religion, but the experiences cause Galileo to struggle with the ignorance and superstitions of his time.
14) Dragon's time
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Weyrwoman Fiona and the harper Kindan struggle to keep morale from fading as the dragons of Pern are lost to the deadly Thread, and a dangerous attempt to travel back in time may be their only chance to save the dragons, and themselves, but tampering with the natural laws of the universe may have unforeseen consequences for the future of Pern.
15) Dragon Harper
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
16) Dragon's fire
Author
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
17) The disasters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.
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