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Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
War is tearing the galaxy apart. For years the Republic and the Separatists have battled across the stars, each building more and more deadly technology in an attempt to win the war. As a member of Chancellor Palpatine's top secret Death Star project, Orson Krennic is determined to develop a superweapon before their enemies can. And an old friend of Krennic's, the brilliant scientist Galen Erso, could be the key. Galen's energy-focused research has...
Series
Publisher
CBS Studios Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mindy continues to teach Mork about human behavior, while America's favorite alien remains as befuddled and amusing as ever. Watch as this stellar couple honeymoons on planet Ork, journeys back to prehistoric times, and raises their very own hybrid son, Mearth.
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
This thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity’s hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA’s secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs.
64) Zoe's tale
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zoë Boutin-Perry travels to the fledgling colony world of Roanoke with her adoptive parents, John Perry and Jane Sagan, who have accepted positions as administrators. When her biological father develops the technology to give the Obin consciousness and self-awareness, she suddenly becomes the center of a critical but endangered treaty between the Obin and the Colonial Union.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. They are what's left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a...
66) Good boy!
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Special ed.
Language
English
Description
Dogs are an alien species sent to earth thousands of years ago to spy on humans. But when the spies stop reporting back to the home planet, Canid 3942 is sent to earth to investigate. Once there, Canid 3942 encounters Owen, a young boy who runs a dog-walking service. Owen befriends the space-dog, renaming him Hubble. When it becomes obvious that the dogs of earth have forgotten their mission, Hubble enlists the help of Owen to get them all into shape...
67) Embassytown
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When the Republic of Siddermark is threatened by wars triggered by the Charis kingdom's declaration of independence from the Church of God Awaiting, Vicar Clytahn, King Cayleb, Queen Sharleyan and Merlin Arthawes struggle to prevent widespread starvationwhile protecting their people from violent attacks.
71) Life
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. As the crew begins to conduct research, their methods end up having unintended consequences and the life form proves more intelligent than anyone ever expected.
Author
Series
Cassandra Kresnov novels volume 5
Publisher
Pyr, an imprint of Pometheus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The adventures of Cassandra "Sandy" Kresnov, the ultimate synthetic soldier who was made by the League, but defected to her former enemy, the Federation. Explosive action sequences and a focus on character make the Cassandra Kresnov novels unique in SF"--
Author
Language
Español
Description
"Una niña llamada Petra Peña que no quería otra cosa que ser cuentista, como su abuelita. Pero el mundo de Petra está llegando a su fin. La Tierra ha sido destruida por un cometa, y solo unos pocos científicos y sus hijos --entre ellos, Petra y su familia-- han sido elegidos para viajar a un nuevo planeta. Son ellos quienes garantizarán la continuidad de la raza humana. Cientos de años después, Petra despierta en el nuevo planeta y descubre...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Twilight Company (men and women, human and nonhuman--of the Sixty-First Mobile Infantry) gives the Rebel Alliance's hardest-fighting warriors a crucial chance to turn retreat into resurgence as they strike at the ultimate target: the very heart of the Empire's military machine.
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The universe is in danger. The evil Snake extinguishes the stars as he passes through the galaxy, causing chaos and plunging the planets into darkness. The Little Prince must leave his Asteroid home and beloved friend, Rose, in his quest to outsmart the Snake and save the universe from doom. Will the Snake succeed or will good prevail?
Author
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2002 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection: In Skin folk, with fifteen works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best spinning tales like "Precious," in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from her mouth whenever she attempts to talk or sing. In "A Habit of Waste," a self-conscious woman undergoes elective surgery to alter her appearance;...
79) Halo: silentium
Author
Series
Halo series. Forerunner saga volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood--a horrifying shape-changing parasite--has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Decades after the Battle of Corrin destroys the thinking machines and establishes Faykan Butler as the first Imperium Emperor, war hero Vor turns his back on political descendants who blame him for their downfall while Gilbertus Albans hides an unbelievable secret and the Butlerian movement sweeps through the known universe intent on destroying technology.
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