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1) Ruins
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
To prevent the destruction of his planet, teenaged Rigg Sessamekesh, who can manipulate time, must assume more responsibility when he and others travel back 11,000 years to the arrival of human starships.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets--
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe...
Author
Series
Across the universe trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When young lovers Amy and Elder and the other passengers of the spaceship Godspeed finally land on Centauri-Earth and start to colonize the new world, they encounter pterodactyl-like monsters and the threat of unseen aliens.
5) Aurora
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as a new home world for those on board. But the journey has brought unexpected changes and their best laid plans may not be enough to survive"-- Provided by publisher.
6) 2312
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system--and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all.
Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future....
Author
Series
System divine volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"This sweeping reimagining of Les Mis�erables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre"--
8) Reckoning
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When the powerful families who control the Board bring their battle for supremacy to Port Authority, Falise Taglioni is chosen to ensure her family emerges triumphant, while the inhabitants of Port Authority, genetically altered, tough and self-reliant, prepare to defend their planet.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ender's Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel...
At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children-the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten, a fading ansible signal speaking of events...
10) Mars One
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"A teenage boy leaves for Mars as a colonist with the Mars One space program and grapples with what he's leaving behind to do so"--
11) Angelmass
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Deep in space lies the black hole known as Angelmass, so called because it emits enigmatic particles with the unusual ability to render humans calm, reasonable, and incapable of lying-which would normally be seen as a good thing. But not by everyone. For while Empyrean human colonies on the edge of the galaxy utilize the power of the "angels," the Earth-based Pax empire views the emissions as a threat that could be used to subvert humanity. Academic...
12) Sweep of stars
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Maurice Broaddus's Sweep of Stars is the first in a trilogy that explores the end of an empire. Epic in scope and intimate in voice, it follows members of the Muungano empire - a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretches from O.E. (original earth) to Titan - as it faces an escalating series of threats. The past, the present, and the future often collide with each other. -Stacia Chikeke, research captain of the star vessel Cipher What happens...
13) Star splitter
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
2199. Deep-space exploration is a reality and teleportation is routine. But this time something seems to have gone very, very wrong. Seventeen-year-old Jessica Mathers wakes up in a lander that’s crashed onto the surface of Carver 1061c, a desolate, post-extinction planet fourteen light-years from Earth. The planet she was supposed to be viewing from a ship orbiting far above. The corridors of the empty lander are covered in bloody hand prints;...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Flynn, leader of the rebellion on Avon, captures Jubilee "Lee" Chase, captain of the forces sent to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but later saves her, and the two, caught between sides in a senseless war, flee together.
15) Fallen dragon
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In the distant future, corporations have become sustainable communities with their own militaries, and corporate goals have essentially replaced political ideology. On a youthful, rebellious impulse, Lawrence joined the military of a corporation that he now recognizes to be ruthless and exploitative. His only hope for escape is to earn enough money to buy his place in a better corporation. When his platoon is sent to a distant colony to quell a local...
16) Judas unchained
Author
Series
Commonwealth saga volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Peter F. Hamilton's superbly imagined, cunningly plotted interstellar adventures are conceived on a staggeringly epic scale and filled with fully realized human and alien characters as complex as they are engaging. No mere world builder, Hamilton creates entire universes-and he does so with irresistible flair and intelligence. His previous novel, the acclaimed Pandora's Star, introduced the Intersolar Commonwealth, a star-spanning civilization of...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee.
In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. There, January's life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger-a person whose body is not adjusted to lower gravity and so poses a danger to those born on, or naturalized to, Mars. January's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Buzz Aldrin speaks out as a vital advocate for the continuing quest to push the boundaries of the universe as we know it. As a pioneering astronaut who first set foot on the moon during mankind's first landing of Apollo 11-- and as an aerospace engineer who designed an orbital rendezvous technique critical to future planetary landings -- Aldrin has a vision, and in this book he plots out the path he proposes, taking humans to Mars by 2035.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
20) Fractal noise
Author
Series
Fractalverse volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII:a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why. But they all carry the burdens of lives carved out on disparate colonies in the cruel cold of space. For some the mission is the dream of the lifetime, for others...
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