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Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In this rollicking novel of action, planetary romance, and high adventure, a determined Mary Griffith opens the only place to buy a beer on Mars' Tharsis Bulge and soon becomes the center of a terraforming company's machinations, its downfall, and the founding of a new world.
22) The last colony
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Perry and Sagan are back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds.
23) Earth to Dad
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English
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After Astra Primm arrives at Minnesota's Base Ripley, eleven-year-old Jameson O'Malley begins to discover that people are hiding plenty from him about his father and the Mars colony where he lives, and about the strain between Jameson's parents.
24) Roboteer
Author
Series
Roboteer novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The colonisation of the stars has turned out to be anything but easy, and civilization on Earth has collapsed under the pressure of relentless mutual terrorism.
25) Precursor
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
On a planet inhabited by humans and aliens, preparations are underway to resist an invasion from outside. The hero is diplomat Bren Cameron, whose skills as a translator have maintained harmony between humans and aliens.
26) Artemis: a novel
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Language
English
Description
Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling...
27) Ruins
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 2
Pub. Date
2013, ©2012.
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
Series
Survival Colony 9 volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Querry Genn, a member of one of the last human survivor groups following global war, is targeted by the monstrous Skaldi, although Querry has no memory of why.
29) The lion of Mars
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Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid-he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell--a regular kid in a...
30) Light bringer
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Series
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English
Description
The legendary Reaper, Darrow, to defend Mars from a bloodthirsty would-be conqueror, begins his long voyage home, an interplanetary adventure where old friends will reunite, new alliances will be forged, and rivals will clash on the battlefield.
Author
Series
Galactic empires trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing an unknown assassin after surviving a radiation bomb planted in his dorm room, University of Earth student Biron Farrill is outraged by the subsequent murder of his father and caught up in a deep-space rebellion.
32) The disasters
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.
33) Dragon Harper
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 26
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
As a deadly epidemic sweeps across the land of Pern, only Kindan, a young apprentice to the guild of musicians and teachers known as the Harpers, recognizes the imminent peril and must come up with a way to stop the illness from spreading.
34) Tracker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With the Assassins' Guild functioning again after a year of upheaval and rebellion, Bren Cameron takes a position on the court to champion a trade agreement, but tranquility in the atevi world is transient.
35) Extremis
Author
Series
Starfire series volume 6
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Humans and their allies unite to stop an alien invasion of Earth, while the the aliens, who believe in reincarnation and are unafraid of dying, make a brutal attack on the planet, helped by their acquisition of advanced human technology.
36) Fractal noise
Author
Series
Fractalverse volume 2
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 a...
37) The sky people
Author
Series
Lords of Creation volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In 1988, with the Cold War raging, Marc Vitrac is assigned to Jamestown, the U.S.-Commonwealth base on Venus, and discovers a perilous world swarming with lost races of people, where he confronts a secret that could threaten the human race.
38) Pathfinder
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest that brings new threats from those who would either control his destiny or kill him.
39) Bloodstar
Author
Series
Star Corpsman novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the 23rd century, war is still hell... Navy Corpsman Elliot Carlyle joined up to save lives and see the universe. Now he and Bravo Company's Black Wizards of the interstellar Fleet Marine Force are en route to Bloodworld-- a hellish, volatile rock colonized by the fanatical Salvationists who desired an inhospitable world where they could suffer for humanity's sins. Their penance could prove fatal..."--P. [4] of cover.
40) Anniversary day
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Four years ago, a bomb destroyed part of the dome protecting Armstrong, the largest city on the Moon. Now, as the city celebrates its survival with an event called Anniversary Day, a larger threat looms, one that begins with the murder of the mayor and spreads across the Moon itself.
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