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2017.
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Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against interstellar war--and, for the...
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Foundation series volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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"A Foundation Book." When young Hari Seldon arrives on Trantor, he is unaware of the perilous politics that are brewing. After he presents his paper on psychohistory, he becomes the most wanted man in the Empire.
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2016
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487 PAGES. $30.99. 2015036319. LP. CONCLUSION TO THE TRILOGY, THINGS SEEM 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. DN.
24) Children of Dune
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
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When their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of House Atreides, plans to obtain the secrets of their prophetic visions to maintain control over her dynasty, twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides have their own plans for their visions--and their destinies.
25) Infinity's shore
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Pub. Date
1996
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On the planet Jijo six races have finally reached a modus vivendi after years of war. But peace does not last, the balance broken by the arrival of colonists who exploit old grudges for their own benefit. A study of different cultures.
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Renegades of Pern volume 6 & 7
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[1993]
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"Once upon a time, a long time ago, even before the classic novel Dragonflight was written, a story was published. It was called "Weyr Search" and it introduced to the world the incredible Dragonriders of Pern. Now, Anne McCaffrey celebrates a quarter-century of dragons and dragonriders as she returns to the form that started it all: the first-ever Pern short-story collection!" "Let the queen of dragons herself take you back to the earliest days of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else's. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School." "For Earth...
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Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has also made humanity complacent....
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2022.
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"The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls "an animal rights organization." Tom's team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their...
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
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A tale of dragons in the fantasy land of Pern and the boy who communicates with them by telepathy. He is Rob, a musical genius, and when he grows up he leads the dragons and their riders in battle against an evil man who denies people education.
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Dread empire's fall volume 5
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2018.
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"Blending fast-paced military science fiction and space opera, the first volume in a dynamic trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Praxis, set in the universe of his popular and critically acclaimed Dread Empire's Fall series--a tale of blood, courage, adventure and battle in which the fate of an empire rests in the hands of a cadre of desperate exiles. It's been seven years since the end of the Naxid War. Sidelined for their unorthodox...
32) Blue Mars
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Mars trilogy volume 3
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The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the Green “terraformers.” Meanwhile, Earth is in peril. A great flood threatens an already overcrowded and polluted planet. With Mars the last hope for the...
33) Children of Time
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Children of time volume 1
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The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied....
34) Dragonsdawn
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IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
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When the deadly silver "threadfall" from an orbiting comet threatens to destroy the thriving human colony on the otherwise hospitable planet Pern, scientists and genetic engineers undertake a bold and risky experiment to change the tiny dragon-like winged reptiles called fire lizards into allies for mutual survival.
35) Red Mars
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Mars trilogy volume 1
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Chronicles the colonization of Mars in the year 2026. In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of research and cutting-edge science in the first of three novels that will chronicle the colonization of Mars. For eons, sandstorms have swept the barren desolate landscape of the red planet. For centuries, Mars has beckoned to mankind to come and conquer its hostile climate. Now, in the year 2026,...
36) Step into chaos
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Quest for tomorrow volume 3
Pub. Date
[1999]
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"Jim Endicott is a hero - and he hates it. Using the cybernetic secret weapon encoded in his DNA, he defeated the dreaded Hunzza fleet, but at a terrible cost in lives, both human and alien. Now Jim wants only to live a " normal" life and forget the horrors he witnessed and the heroic destiny he despises."--BOOK JACKET. "But a new and even more terrible conflict is stirring. Earth's former ally, the Alban Packlord, suspects that humans are about to...
37) Dune
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
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This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...
38) Foundation
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Foundation series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
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One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory,...
39) Dragon's Fire
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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Pellar is an orphan taken in by Masterharper Zist. Though born mute, Pellar is a gifted tracker, and when Zist sets off to take over as haarper for Natalon's coal-mining camp, Pellar--along with his fire-lizard, Chitter--joins him on a secret mission of his own: to find out if reported thefts of coal are the work of the Shunned, criminals condemned to a life of wandering and hardship.
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2015
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"Jupiter Jones was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Caine, a genetically engineered ex-military hunter, arrives on Earth to track her down does Jupiter begin to glimpse the fate that has been waiting for her all along. Her genetic signature marks her as next...