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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This story begins at an observatory in England where the narrator witnesses explosions on Mars. This event is followed by what is thought to be a meteor landing not far from the observatory. Once the narrator travels to the spot of the meteor landing he discovers it is actually a cylinder and the cylinder contains Martians. The story chronicles the Martian attacks throughout many parts of England, even devastating London and the narrator escapes with...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
With humankind reduced to a single colony on the world of Safehold, the human rulers of the planet, in an effort to preserve the remnants of their industrial civilization, build a religion designed to hide the colony by keeping its society medieval.
Author
Series
Aftermath trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
As the Empire reels from its critical defeats at the Battle of Endor, the Rebel Alliance--now a fledgling New Republic--presses its advantage by hunting down the enemy's scattered forces before they can regroup and retaliate. But above the remote planet Akiva, an ominous show of the enemy's strength is unfolding. Out on a lone reconnaissance mission, pilot Wedge Antilles watches Imperial Star Destroyers gather like birds of prey circling for a kill,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Lord Stewart Cavanagh hires Adam Quinn, a former member of the Copperheads, a team of fighter pilots whose minds are melded with their machines, to find and rescue his son, Commander Pheylan Cavanagh, after receiving privileged information that Pheylan has been captured in an alien attack.
6) Earth afire
Author
Series
Formic Wars volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Traces the events of the First Formic War a century before the events of Ender's Game, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
10) Ashes of victory
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Honor Harrington, pronounced dead by the People's Republic of Haven, escapes from the prison planet called Hell and returns to the Manticoran Alliance in the company of almost a half million troops.
11) Ghosts of Onyx
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Section Three, a secret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligences, travels to the planet Onyx, where the soldiers are suppose to begin their plan to save Earth, but instead they awaken an ancient technology.
13) Caliban's war
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of...
16) The forever war
Author
Language
English
Description
"Del Rey book." Battling the Taurans in space was one problem as Private William Mandella worked his way up the ranks to major. In spanning the stars, he aged only months while Earth aged centuries.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Rescued from exile by Imperial soldiers, Thrawn proved to be indispensable to Emperor Palpatine and the Empire. Ambitious and a warrior never to be underestimated, one promotion followed another. Follow the events that launched the blue-skinned, red-eyed master of military strategy and lethal warfare into the highest realms of power and infamy as Thrawn rises to Admiral
18) Forge of heaven
Author
Series
Language
English
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...
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