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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
At the Dawn of Man, a group of hominids encounters a mysterious black monolith that is alien to their surroundings. A hominid discovers the first weapon, using a bone to kill prey. The bone is tossed in the air and it's a 21st century spacecraft hovering over the Earth, skipping ahead millions of years in technological development only to imply that man hasn't advanced very far at all psychologically. U.S. scientist Dr. Heywood Floyd travels to the...
42) Central Station
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris's ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik--a damaged cyborg soldier who might...
Author
Series
Space taxi volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Eight-year-old Archie Morningstar, his father, and the talking cat Pockets travel to a planet that closely resembles medieval Earth in order to rescue a princess from the clutches of the intergalactic criminal organization B.U.R.P"--
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew quickly head toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama and President Laura Roslin are facing the problems of waning supplies and crushed morale. Along the way they have to deal with the credible threat that Cylons may be aboard the ship.
45) Pitch black
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light, they turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.
Author
Series
Galactic hot dogs volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Cosmoe, the Earth-Boy. He's captain of the Neon Weiner, the finest flying food truck in the galaxy. Along with his bud, Big Humphree, he spends his days cruising the cosmos and staying crazy busy.
Author
Series
Novels volume 4
Publisher
Tyche Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Luta Paixon and the crew of the Tane Ikai discover a dying wormhole explorer who's been missing for decades, it's a mystery; but the bigger mystery lies in her only words: "Save Lillifleur." Because the colony ship Lillifleur disappeared without a trace almost a century ago. Meanwhile, a different mystery lies closer to home; Luta's son Karro and his wife want no part of the life-extending nanobioscavengers that have kept Luta safe from harm...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species. World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores...
Author
Publisher
Barakaldo Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
""This book has been written to answer all the questions which the intelligent layman asks about the new science of astronautics"-a subject which is increasingly in the public eye. The treatment, though scientifically accurate, is entirely non-technical and the many remarkable plates-four in full colour-give a vivid impression of the way in which space-travel may be achieved. Among the subjects illustrated are: the refuelling of spaceships in free...
50) Treasure planet.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Planet, a distant world where hundreds of space pirates have stashed their loot. Jim is certain this is the adventure he's been dreaming of and sets out to find the fabled Treasure...
Author
Series
Quadrail volume 3
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Action science fiction, mystery, and espionage combine in books 4 and 5 of the Quadrail series from this Hugo Award-winning author. The alien Chahwyn created the Spiders to keep their intragalactic transportation system, the Quadrail, safe and running smoothly. And ex-government agent Frank Compton is there to protect its integrity. So far, Compton and his beautiful half-human, half-Chahwyn partner, Bayta, have had their hands full keeping the Quadrail...
52) Mostly harmless
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arthur Dent is forced to leave his idyllic life and travel on the back of a mysterious Perfectly Normal Beast to save the Earth and others.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew quickly head toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama and President Laura Roslin are facing the problems of waning supplies and crushed morale. Along the way they have to deal with the credible threat that Cylons may be aboard the ship.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! A Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2017" pick! Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel! Shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award! Winner of the Prix Julia-Verlanger! Embark on an exciting, adventurous, and dangerous journey through the galaxy with the motley crew of the spaceship Wayfarer in this fun and heart-warming space opera -- the sequel to the acclaimed The Long Way to a Small, Angry...
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Do androids dream of electric sugar plums? A detective who refuses to modify her body teams up with her cyborg rival to track down a burglar who is putting toys into homes. A solitary ice miner finds love and friendship while stranded on the surface of Galileo. And two hardheaded negotiators put their differences aside to evade an assassin and save their planets. Enjoy these visions of Christmases yet to come with three science-fiction novellas from...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
After losing the war against the Cylon robots, the Battlestar Galactica crew quickly head toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth. Galactica Commander Adama and President Laura Roslin are facing the problems of waning supplies and crushed morale. Along the way they have to deal with the credible threat that Cylons may be aboard the ship.
57) Red Thunder
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The heart-pounding space race is on ... in this riveting SF thriller" from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Red Lightning and Rolling Thunder ( Publishers Weekly, starred review). As Chinese and US spacecraft compete to be the first to land on Mars, a former astronaut, his cousin, and four teens from Florida decide to take matters into their own hands. If they can quickly build their own space-worthy ship using scrap metal, appliances,...
Author
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Prince George, Earl of New Britain, was supposed to hold a position of great importance on Buckingham, capital world of the Second Commonwealth. However, Prince George wasn t on Buckingham. He hadn t been for seven years, in fact. The Federation War had stranded him on the resort world of Camerein, His Royal Highness little more than a footnote to the long, bitter war. Newly made Captain David Spencer has proven his worth time and again on the fields...
59) Stowaway
Author
Series
Icarus chronicles volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
To save his father, a Coalition scientist protecting a precious resource, after their ship is attacked, Leo stows away on a strange ship of mercenary space pirates and must decide who to trust- human or alien-to stay alive.
When scientists discover a rare and mysterious mineral buried in the Earth's crust, it's not long before aliens show up to our little corner of the galaxy offering a promise of protection, some fabulous new technology, and entry...
60) Logos Run
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After interstellar courier Jak Rebo agrees to deliver a powerful artificial intelligence named Logos to a distant planet, he quickly comes to realize that it's no ordinary assignment. Logos has the power to not only reactivate the ancient stargates, but to restore interstellar travel, and bring the far flung remnants of humanity back together again. Some, like the members of the ruthless Techno Society, want to harness Logos and control it. Others,...
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