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Author
Series
Expanse volume 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series. AN OLD ENEMY RETURNS In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace. In the vast space between Earth and Jupiter,...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core.
3) Blue Mars
Author
Series
Mars trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
After declaring independence from Earth, Mars still faces problems: an impending ice age, a search for religious meaning, and immigration. New medical discoveries enable people to live 200 years, causing overpopulation on Earth and the Martians object to being swamped by Earthmen. A replay of New World problems in space. By the author of a trilogy, of which this is the last volume.
5) Cibola burn
Author
Series
Expanse volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule. But Holden and his crew must also contend with the...
6) Dune messiah
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dune Messiah continues the story of the man Muad'dib, heir to a power unimaginable, bringing to completion the centuries-old scheme to create a super-being.
Author
Series
Imperial Radch volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
Author
Series
Imperial Radch volume 3
Language
English
Description
"For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist, and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai--ruler of an empire at war with itself"--Page 4 of cover.
9) Blindsight
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Two months after sixty-five thousand alien objects surrounded Earth and were burned by the atmosphere, a space probe hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system. A group of freaks and retrofits are sent to make contact with this unknown intelligence, including a linguist with multiple personalities, a biologist who has been radically interfaced with machinery, a pacifist warrior, a "vampire" recalled from the grave, and a synthesist--an informational...
11) Crown of slaves
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
With its ally Erewhon growing restive, the Star Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth sends a mission to Erewhon, but upon arriving at their destination, they find a conspiracy led by the Solarian League's military delegation.
Author
Series
Zones of thought volume Prequel
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
The story of the Spiders, inhabitants of a planet where the sun regularly stops shining for periods of 200 years, during which they are frozen in ice. The novel picks them up emerging from their most recent hibernation in a frenzy of activity and innovation to make up for lost time. By the author of A Fire upon the Deep.
14) Dawn
Author
Series
Xenogenesis series volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lilith lyapo awoke from a centuries-long sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured cancer, increased strength, and were now ready to help Lilith lead her people back to Earth--but for a price.
15) Beegu
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A small creature from space finds no welcome on Earth, until she meets a group of children on a playground.
16) Babylon's ashes
Author
Series
Expanse volume 6
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Free Navy--a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships--has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them. James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone. Outnumbered and outgunned,...
Author
Series
Zones of thought volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Scientists release an ancient Transcendent artifact that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence, only one ship escapes and the struggle begins.
19) Company's coming
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Chaos erupts when Moe and Shirley invite some visitors from outer space to stay for dinner with the relatives.
20) Tiamat's wrath
Author
Series
Expanse volume 8
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable....
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