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Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 07
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
In the fifth volume of the Hitchhiker series, Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, leaves her remote home planet on the edge of the universe to set out a cross-galactic odyssey in search of her ancestors' native planet.
3) Illuminae
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
"The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all"--
Author
Series
Across the universe trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her.
6) Echo
Author
Language
English
Description
Alex Benedict and his assistant look for a stone tablet that may prove the existence of several forms of alien life, an investigation that sends them into the path of an assassin.
Author
Series
Voyagers) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Eight boys and girls compete for a spot on the space voyage that will search for a source to solve Earth's energy crisis.
Author
Series
Ender saga volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.
"Three thousand planet-bound years have fled since Edgar Wiggin won Earth's war with the Formics by totally destroying them. Ender remains young, traveling constantly at relativistic speeds. In three thousand years, the Hive Queen and the Hegemon have become holy writ, and...
10) 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....
11) Caliban's war
Author
Series
Expanse volume 2
Language
English
Description
We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, embark on a twenty-year trip to set up a planet for human colonization--but find that space is more deadly than they ever could have imagined.
13) Aurora
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as a new home world for those on board. But the journey has brought unexpected changes and their best laid plans may not be enough to survive."--
15) Physics of the future: how science will shape human destiny and our daily lives by the year 2100
Author
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
Renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku details the developments in computer technology, artificial intelligence, medicine, space travel, and more, that are poised to happen over the next hundred years. He also considers how these inventions will affect the world economy, addressing the key questions: Who will have jobs? Which nations will prosper? Kaku interviews three hundred of the world's top scientists- working in their labs on astonishing...
Author
Series
Starbound volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Two star-crossed lovers must fight for survival when they crash land on a seemingly uninhabited planet"--
It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero...
18) Meru
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a future where human life has been restricted to Earth, while posthuman descendants called alloys freely explore the galaxy, Jayanthi, the adopted human child alloys, and her alloy pilot Vaha are sent to test the habitability of an Earthlike planet called Meru, an unoccupied new world, and the future of human-alloy relations.
20) Home
Language
English
Description
A lovable misfit from another planet meets a girl named Tip. The two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time.
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