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5) Elysium
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
9) Uranus
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A religious idealist, a billionaire financier, and a prestigious scientist battle for control over a space mission to search for life on Uranus. Humans can't live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a privately financed orbital habitat above Uranus. He invites "the tired, the sick, the poor" of Earth to his orbital retreat where men and women can find spiritual peace and refuge from...
10) Crash landing
Author
Series
Sci-fi Junior High volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Kelvin is desperate to take Luna to Sci-Fi Junior High's school dance, but first he must face mad scientist Erik Failenheimer and his army of pinions.
11) Orbital: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts-from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan-have left their lives behind to travel at warp speed as the earth reels below. We glimpse moments of their earthly lives through brief communications with family, their photos and talismans; we watch them whip up dehydrated meals, float in gravity-free sleep, and exercise...
12) Jupiter
Author
Series
Grand tour of the solar system volume 8
Language
English
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Description
"Grant Archer merely wanted to study astrophysics, to work quietly as an astronomer on the far side of the moon. But the forces of the New Morality, the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run twenty-first-century America, have other plans for him."--Jacket.
13) Spacer and Rat
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Language
English
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Jack's predictable existence on Freedom space station is transformed when Kit enters his life and enlists him and a sensitive robot in an effort to outwit the Company.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1998, scientists from around the world worked together to build a science lab in outer space. Since then, the ISS has orbited the earth more than 120,000 times and been home to more than 200 astronauts! ISS scientists have conducted experiments on topics, including how the human body reacts to living in space and how to grow food in microgravity. Share in the joy of exploration and discovery with International Space Station.
Author
Series
Sci-fi Junior High volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
As the new student at Sci-Fi High School on an inter-galactic space station, can Kelvin Klosmo, the unremarkable son of Earth's two most famous geniuses, save the universe from a mad scientist?
16) Gravity
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
An organism harmless on earth where it is subject to gravity terrorizes a research station in space. Scientists die violently and from their insides spill creatures that are part human, part frog and part mouse. A medical thriller by the author of Bloodstream.
17) Gemina
Author
Series
Illuminae files volume 2
Language
English
Description
When the space station Heimdall is invaded, Hannah and Nik must work together to defeat the enemy"-- On board the Jump Station Heimdall, Hanna is the captain's pampered daughter; Nik a member of a notorious crime family. While they are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy's most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion. When...
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Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"Bengal Station: an exotic spaceport that dominates the ocean between India and Burma. Jaded telepath, Jeff Vaughan, is employed by the spaceport authorities to monitor incoming craft for refugees from other worlds. When he discovers a sinister cult that worships a mysterious alien god, he's drawn into a deadly investigation. Not only must he attempt to solve the murders, but he has to save himself from the psychopath out to kill him."--Cover
19) Nexus
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Stunning betrayals and devastating secrets send an embattled galaxy spiraling into the ultimate nightmare"--Provided by publisjer.Amazon.
Author
Series
Apollo murders volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
NASA is about to launch Apollo 18. While the mission has been billed as a scientific one, flight controller Kazimieras "Kaz" Zemeckis knows there is a darker objective. Intelligence has discovered a secret Soviet space station spying on America, and Apollo 18 may be the only chance to stop it. But even as Kaz races to keep the NASA crew one step ahead of their Russian rivals, a deadly accident reveals that not everyone involved is quite who they were...
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