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Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Ender's Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel...
At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children-the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten, a fading ansible signal speaking of events...
2) Saturn run
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Formats
Description
"The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope--something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don't decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage...
4) Manxome foe
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
A leading voice in military SF, best-selling author John Ringo teams with real-life rocket scientist Travis S. Taylor for an explosive entry from their Looking Glass series. Recovering from their first mission, the crew of the Vorpal Blade-humankind's first interstellar craft-is called into emergency action when an alliance gate colony is attacked. Who was the lethal alien enemy? What exactly happened at the colony? And dare the Vorpal Blade's battle-weary...
5) Dark sky
Author
Series
Keiko volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"When Ichabod Drift and the Keiko crew sign on for a new smuggling job to a mining planet, they don't realize what they are up against. The miners, badly treated for years by the corporation, are staging a rebellion. Split into two groups, one with the authorities and one with the rebels, Drift and his crew support their respective sides in the conflict. But when they are cut off from each other due to a communication blackout, both halves of the...
7) Dark deeds
Author
Series
Keiko volume 3
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"In the third book of the "entertaining" (Kirkus Reveiws) Keiko series, Captain Ichabod Drift and his crew find themselves in another mess as a ship-wide vacation leads to their second-in-command taken hostage by the planet's criminal mastermind. After the riotous civil war in Dark Sky, the crew of the Keiko decides to go on vacation at an illegal gambling port for a little fun. What they don't realize is that the casinos are run by an ex-client who...
8) Q-squared
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1994
Description
Captain Picard has never encountered an opponent more powerful than Q, a being from another continuum that he met on his first mission as captain of the Starship Enterprise. In the years since, Q has returned again and again to harass Picard. Sometimes dangerous, sometimes obnoxious, Q has always been mysterious and seemingly all-powerful. But this time he comes for help. Another member of the Q continuum has tapped into a power that makes this being...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Bestselling author Stephen Coonts took fans by surprise with the phenomenal and heart-pounding tale of Saucer. Now Rip Cantrell and Charley Pine are back for seconds with Saucer: The Conquest.
Rip Cantrell is brought back to give the saucer one last flight. Charley Pine has started flying for a rich French tycoon, and there is believed to be another downed saucer somewhere in the area. Rip can't quite get over the fact that Charley has dumped him....
10) Crossover
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
The continuing Star Trek adventures of Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the Federation starship, USS Enterprise. On this mission, he is ordered to rescue Ambassador Spock of the Federation, taken hostage while negotiating peace between the Romulans and Vulcans.
13) Claws that catch
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In the fourth Looking Glass novel, the "Vorpal Blade" is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the black box that drives humanity's only space ship. Any remnant technology would be nice, but what the "Vorpal Blade" finds is much more than its crew had bargained for.
14) Outpost
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Series
Donovan volume 1
Formats
Description
The first book in a thrilling new sci-fi action adventure, set on Donovan, a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the planet's inhabitants. A ghost ship, the Freelander, appears in orbit. Missing for two years, she arrives with a crew dead of old age, and reeks of a bizarre death-cult ritual that deters any ship from attempting a return journey. But maybe it's worth the risk, for a brutal killer...
15) Alliance rising
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"For years, the stations of the Hinder Stars, those old stations closest to Sol, have lagged behind the great megastations of the Beyond, like Pell and Cyteen. But new opportunities and fears arise when Alpha station receives news of an incoming ship with no identification. The denizens of Alpha wait anxiously for news about the outsiders, each with their own suspicions about the ship and its origins. Ross and Fallon, crew members of the Galway, believe...
16) Generations
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Captain Malcolm Reynolds and River Tam try to interpret an old map won in a card game. It could point to one of the legendary ships that brought humans from Earth.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2000
Description
The Genesis Wave continues across the Alpha Quadrant, transforming planets on a molecular level and threatening civilizations with extinction. Based on the scientific secrets of Dr. Carol Marcus, who has disappeared, the wave of mutagenic protomatter seems to have come from nowhere, posing a menace to life as we know it. To combat the wave, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Starship Enterprise have an uneasy alliance with the Klingons and the Romulan...
Author
Series
The Duchy of Terra volume 1
Publisher
Faolan's Pen Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
When an alien armada destroys the United Earth Space Force and takes control of the human homeworld, newly reinstated Captain Annette Bond must take her experimental hyperspace cruiser Tornado into exile as Terra’ s only interstellar privateer. She has inferior technology, crude maps and no concept of her enemy, but the seedy underbelly of galactic society welcomes her so long as she has prizes to sell and money to spend. But when your only allies...
Author
Series
Lost fleet beyond the frontier volume 1
Publisher
Ace Hardcover
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people--and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The war may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens...
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