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1) Anathem
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On the Earth-like planet, Arbre, scientists, philosophers and mathematicians are called upon to leave their sanctuary when a extraterrestrial catastrophe threatens.
Author
Series
Dune chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2009, c1984
Language
English
Description
Several millenia after the 3500 year rule of the God Emperor Leto II, various forces contend for power, and the freedom of humanity rests on avoiding Leto's grand design.
Author
Series
Nyxia triad volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emmett Atwater and the other Genesis spaceship survivors are caught between Babel and the indigenous Adamite population when they are sent to extract nyxia, the most valuable material in the universe.
6) The sparrow
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Linguist Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit priest who leads a twenty-first century scientific mission to an extraterrestrial culture, is involved in a tragic misunderstanding with the alien civilization that leaves him physically and spiritually maimed.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In the year 3589, a self-contained microuniverse that cannot be destroyed or stopped is steadily consuming everything around it, threatening the existence of the universe itself, and when Inigo begins having dreams about the planet, his dreams are shared with millions and bring about a new religious movement that views Inigo as a prophet.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Last Days of Krypton is the epic story of the destruction of the planet Krypton, an explosive event that sent Superman and his legacy to earth. Written by award-winning science fiction writer Kevin J. Anderson, author of the international bestselling Dune prequels, The Last Days of Krypton tells of the marriage of Superman's parents, their struggle to save their planet, and the menace of General Zod, future arch-enemy of Superman. It's the story...
Author
Series
Virga volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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.
12) The Grays
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
We are not alone. Millions of people are confronting aliens that authorities say do not exist. Meet the Three Thieves, a group of Grays assigned to duty in a small Kentucky town. They have been preparing a child for generations. Innocent Conner Callaghan will face the ultimate terror as he struggles to understand who he has been bred to be, and what he must do to save humanity. Colonel Michael Morax strives to keep the secret of the Grays from the...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The body of Frank Poole, murdered by mad computer HAL a thousand years earlier, is found and revived to a world of peace and plenty, but in his attempts to understand the entity composed of his former deputy Dave Bowman and a copy of the now-sane HAL, Frank learns that Earth is slated for destruction.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the parallel world first introduced in S. M. Stirling's The Sky People, aliens terraformed Mars (and Venus) 200 million years ago, seeding them with life-forms from Earth. Humans didn't suspect this until the twentieth century, but when the first probes landed on our sister worlds and found life-intelligent life, at that-things changed with a vengeance. By the year 2000, America, Russia, and the other great powers of Earth were all contending for...
15) Domain
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
5,000 years in the future, humankind has spread across thousands of worlds, and more than a dozen different governments exist in an uneasy truce. But human beings have found no signs of other life anywhere approaching human intelligence.
This changes when scientists discover a sunless planet they name Danann, travelling the void just beyond the edge of the Galaxy at such a high speed that it cannot be natural. Its continents and oceans have been...
17) Forge of heaven
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Series
Language
English
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Description
From C.J. Cherryh, one of science fiction′s greatest writers and a 3-time Hugo Award "Best Novel" winner, comes the exciting and long-awaited follow-up to Hammerfall, the second novel of the Gene Wars. In the second volume of "The Gene Wars," C. J. Cherryh further explores the captivating new universe where two interstellar empires, scarred by nanotechnology weaponry, hover in an uneasy detente. Perched at the edge of the galaxy, tiny Concord Station...
18) Life on Mars
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A young astronaut is trying to find life on Mars, but he's made a very big oversight"--
19) Dragonsblood
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Lorana, a young dragonrider with a gift for healing and telepathy, rushes to find a cure when a mysterious fatal illness infects the dragons just when a deadly cycle of Threadfall is due, and realizes the answer lies with Wind Blossom, a geneticist whose mother created the dragons hundreds of years earlier.
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