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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,...
5) Earth strike
Author
Series
Star carrier volume 1
Publisher
EOS/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In the vein of the hit television show Battlestar Galactica comes Earth Strike --the first book in the action-packed Star Carrier science fiction series by Ian Douglas, author of the popular Inheritance, Heritage, and Legacy Trilogies and one of the most adept writers of military sf working today. Earth Strike rockets readers into a vast and deadly intergalactic battle, as humankind attempts to bring down an evil empire and establish itself as the...
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.
7) 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.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare people for the aliens' advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring the world back from the brink of extinction.
13) 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.
14) 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.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Learn about Lee Adama's first mission as commander of the Battlestar Pegasus, and how Admiral Cain served her ship during the original Cylon attack on the colonies. Includes deleted scenes and outtakes; documentary; commentary; and more.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find that an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving the world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.
Publisher
WordFire Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
TARGETS ARE LOCKED! Five short novels by five masters of military SF capture the excitement, and hell, of fantastic future war--on and off the battlefield. Stories of terrifying monsters, dangerous aliens and staggering cosmic dreadnaughts march alongside far-flung courtroom dramas and cautionary tales involving man and his devices. Michael A. Stackpole--The Star Tigers are commandeered by a powerful alien overseer on a covert mission to a world long...
19) 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...
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