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Par Steve Toutonghi. 2018
Vin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting an ultra-modern…
Seattle mansion whose owner has gone missing. There he discovers a secret basement lab with an array of computers and three large, smooth caskets. Inside one he finds a woman in a state of suspended animation. There is also a dog-eared notebook filled with circuit diagrams, beautiful and intricate drawings of body parts, and pages of code. When Vin decides to climb into one of the caskets to see what happens, his reality begins to unravel, and he finds himself on a terrifying journey that asks fundamental questions about reality, free will, and the meaning of a human life. 2018.Par Marion Zimmer Bradley. 2017
A novel from the Darkover series, about a man on his first mission to the planet. What he encounters when…
he leaves the space station is to determine the fate of every Terran stranded there. Sequel to "City of sorcery", followed by "The winds of Darkover". 2017.Par Huw Powell. 2014
As a baby, Jake Cutler was separated from his family and left on the planet Remota, deep in the seventh…
solar system. Eleven years later, Jake carries a secret within himself that could change the entire universe. Jake must discover the truth about his past before he is hunted down and caught by ruthless space pirates. Grades 4-7. 2014.Par Dave Bara. 2016
The Lightship H.M.S. Impulse is gone, sacrificed in a battle against First Empire ships. And though the fragile galactic alliance…
has survived the unexpected invasion, the Union forces might not prove victorious against a full onslaught by this legendary enemy. For Peter Cochrane, serving as an officer aboard his world's flagship, H.M.S. Starbound is a dream come true. Tasked with investigating a mysterious space station in a rediscovered star system, Peter and Starbound face a surprise attack by unknown forces and suffer terrible losses. But there is no time to grieve or even regroup as Peter is thrust into a new crisis, a potential civil war on the Union world of Carinthia. Caught between his rank in the navy and his status as a royal heir, Peter is put on trial for the loss of Impulse, used as a political pawn as Carinthia stands on the brink of a devastating conflict. Peter escapes but faces the prospect of interstellar war when he learns of a possible alliance between the First Empire and Carinthia, a coalition which could tear the Union apart. Sequel to "Impulse", followed by "Defiant". 2016.Par Jon McGoran. 2017
Sixteen-year-old Jimi knows people change, but nothing could prepare her for what's about to happen to her best friend, Del.…
Del is obsessed with becoming a chimera: a person who pays back-alley geneticists, known as "genies," to illegally splice animal genes into their own. The resulting physical changes have scared lawmakers into drafting legislation declaring chimeras officially nonpersons, so when Del goes missing, Jimi is desperate to find him before he alters himself forever. As she tries to save him, Jimi must face down unscrupulous people and risk her own life, all while knowing that if getting spliced is the choice Del has made, it means he's leaving her behind forever. For senior high readers. 2017.Par Roderick Gordon, Brian James Williams. 2012
The outer crust is under attack by the subterranean Styx who are turning ordinary humans into walking bombs and incubators…
for their eggs, and only Will Burrows and his band of retired commandos stand in their way - but the Styx also have problems of their own. Sequel to "Closer”. Junior High. 2012.Par Joe W Haldeman. 2010
Haldeman tells the tale of Carmen Dula's six-year journey through space to the home of The Others, where she represents…
Earth, in hopes of forging a peace accord. But due to Relativity, 50 Earth years have passed since Carmen left. And while humans have been busy constructing an enormous flotilla of warships, The Others possess power and technology far beyond anything Earth can imagine. Sequel to "Marsbound", followed by "Earthbound". 2010.Par Brian Francis Slattery. 2008
After Manuel Rodrigo de Guzman Gonzalez disappears, his lover Wendell Apogee searches through New York City's "Darktown" to find him.…
Along the way, he encounters everything from black market dealers to alien assassins. 2008.Par Philip Reeve. 2008
Young Arthur Mumby, his sister Myrtle, and their mother accept an invitation to take a holiday at an up-and-coming resort…
in the asteroid belt, where they become involved in a dastardly plot involving spies, time travel, and mind-altering clothing. Sequel to "Larklight", followed by "Mothstorm". Junior High. 2008.Par Catherine Asaro. 2017
Eldrinson Valdoria is a bard and leader on the planet Skyfall, a world with a culture considered primitive by the…
starflung civilization of the Imperialate. As adept with a sword as he is with a ballad, he is also an undiscovered telepath of great power. Roca Skolia, a former dancer, is now the Councilor for Foreign Affairs in the Imperialate's governing Assembly and heir to the Ruby Pharaoh of the Skolian Imperialate. Caught in a political struggle with her warlord son, she ends up stranded on Skyfall and missing a meeting of the Assembly to vote on humanity's first interstellar war. Though trapped, she finds herself drawn to Eldrinson, whose thoughts are as clear as the words he cannot write. As their attraction deepens into a love that the laws of both their peoples forbid, the flames of war ignite among the stars. Sequel to "The moon's shadow", followed by "Schism". 2017.Par Catherine Asaro. 2016
Separated for decades by circumstance and political machinations, the Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of the Skolian Empire, struggle to bring…
together the tattered remnants of their family in the shadow of a disastrous interstellar war. Too many have died, others are presumed lost, yet they must move quickly if they are to resume their rightful place as rulers of Skolia. Sequel to "The quantum rose", followed by "The moon's shadow". 2016.Par Pauline Gedge. 1982
A universe ruled by immortal sun gods is threatened by dark forces. The struggle that engulfs them imperils the harmony…
of their worlds as they are confronted by incomprehensible evil. Winner of the Jean Boujassy Award. Nominated for the 1985 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. c1982.Par Michael Crichton. 2005
In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a…
mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology, built to his specifications. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the waters of New Guinea. And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means. 2005.Par Robert Silverberg. 1987
More than 1,000 years into the future, the human race has spread all over the galaxy, settling in a host…
of bizarre and exotic worlds. In this great galactic civilization, one race alone has the unique sensitivity to pilot the starships safely through the hazardous depths of inter-stellar space - the Romany people. Yacoub, their king, finds himself in a time of turmoil as the old myths are put to the test. 1987.Par Robert Silverberg. 1995
In the twenty-third century humans must find a new planet to inhabit. Fifty people board a starship to find a…
new world, led by a year-captain and a sightless young woman, Noelle, a telepathic mission communicator who stays in touch with her twin sister on Earth. When she loses contact with the planet, she is surprised by another presence in "nospace." Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1995.Par Frederik Pohl. 1982
Par Poul Anderson. 1998
Astronomers have discovered the possibility of advanced civilizations in the far reaches of the galaxy. A group of ten scientists…
boards the starship Envoy for a journey that will take thousands of years to complete. Although they eventually encounter another civilization, they are unprepared for the ramifications of their adventure. 1998.Par Dale Brown. 2014
While leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world's first orbiting solar power plant, James McLanahan Bradley is…
caught in the middle of a battle that threatens to become an all-out global war for control of space after the U.S. President ignites an arms race. 2014.Par Louise Lawrence. 1978
A Welsh family is caught up in the struggle between the supernatural powers of a mountain and the technological powers…
of a star lord who crashes into it. For junior high readers. c1978.Par Kenneth Oppel. 2008
Paris. Matt Cruse is looking forward to spending time with Kate de Vries over the summer, but first he is…
attacked and then Kate's parents summon her home. Things look up when the Canadian government makes an exciting offer to them both - Canada wants to reach space first, and the Canadian Minister of Air wants Kate to join the first expedition as an expert in aerial zoology. There's a place for Matt, too - if he can pass the gruelling tests to become one of the world's first astralnauts onboard the incredible ship Starclimber. For junior and senior high readers. Sequel to "Skybreaker" (DC27968). Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2008.