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2) Canto Bight
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Four original novellas bring to life the inhabitants and visitors of the mysterious casino city Canto Bight, featured in the film "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."
In the mysterious casino city Canto Bight, one is free to revel in excess, untouched by the problems of a galaxy once again descending into chaos and war. There is a darkness obscured by all the glamour and luxury-- and in these four novellas, set across one fateful evening, the stakes have...
3) Sam Gunn Jr
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After finding out he is the son of the famous intergalactic explorer Sam Gunn, Sam Gunn Jr. sets off to fulfill his father's left-behind legacy. Junior takes a journey through the stars, falling in love with beautiful women and leaving his mark everywhere he ventures. Soon, however, this trip through the universe takes a turn when Junior lands on Saturn, leaving him to learn about a recent scientific discovery that will change everything, possibly...
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2021.
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"The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From here on in she would be known as Sankofa--a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks-alone, except for her fox companion-searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers. But is there...
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Foundation series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall--those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory, his...
7) Healer
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LaNague Federation novels volume 1
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English
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"Centuries-old Steven Dalt migrates to the world of Tolive where he gains fame for his psychosomatic cures and discovers a malign intelligence's plan to make an all-out assault on mankind"--NoveList.
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DAW book collectors volume no. 1955
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English
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"A new speculative fiction short story collection from award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian author Wole Talabi"--
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What if we could transfer objects, even people, across the galaxy in the blink of an eye?
What hidden secrets would it reveal? What deadly dangers would it conceal?
Will any part of human life be the same when the vastness of the Universe lies only ONE STEP FROM EARTH?
10) Machine
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White space volume 2
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2020.
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English
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"In this compelling and addictive novel set in the same universe as the critically acclaimed White Space series and perfect for fans of Karen Traviss and Ada Hoffman, a space station begins to unravel when a routine search and rescue mission returns aftergoing dangerously awry. Meet Doctor Jens. She hasn't had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen years. Her workday begins when she jumps out of perfectly good space ships and continues with developing...
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Gap (Stephen Donaldson) volume 2
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English
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Morn Hyland uses the powers of her brain implant to defend against an alien race that turns human bodies into inhuman forms.
12) Homecoming
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The 100 series volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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When 100 juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth, they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in a dangerous new world.
"Humanity is coming home. Weeks after landing on Earth, the hundred have managed to create a sense of order amid their wild, chaotic surroundings. But their delicate balance comes crashing down with the arrival of new dropships from space. These new arrivals are the...
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"Philip K. Dick was a master of science fiction, but he was also a writer whose work transcended genre to examine the nature of reality and what it means to be human. A writer of great complexity and subtle humor, his work belongs on the shelf of great twentieth-century literature, next to Kafka and Vonnegut. Collected here are twenty-one of Dick's most dazzling and resonant stories, which span his entire career and show a world-class writer working...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
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At first, only a few things are known about the celestial object that astronomers dub Rama. When a space probe confirms that it is an interstellar spacecraft, explorers and scientists prepare for mankind's first encounter with alien intelligence.
"An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system...
17) Friday
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A beautiful interplanetary agent, a glorious product of genetic engineering, operates from and over a near-future Earth.
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Danger in the stars!
The birth of a hero is never easy. Clumsy as an elephant in high heels, he is nothing like his legendary scout father.
But inside that bull-moose-of-a-body lies the heart of a hero whose moment has arrived! Next, a boy survives alien invasion-but must learn to think and act like his reptilian enemy to exact retribution for slaughter.
These and two other tales of coming-of-age-through-peril from the writer who invented the genre,...
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Chanur volume 3
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When the kif seized Hilfy and Tully, hani and human crew of The Pride of Chanur, they issued a challenge Pyanfar, captain of Pride, couldn't ignore, a challenge that was to take Pyanfar and her shipmates to Mkks station and into a deadly confrontation between kif, hani, mahendo'sat, and human. And what began as a simple rescue attempt soon blossomed into a dangerous game of interstellar politics, where today's ally could become tomorrow's executioner,...
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Hell divers volume 8
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"A year has passed since the Hell Divers defeated the machines at Kilimanjaro. The freed captives have settled into their new home at the Vanguard Islands, joining survivors from around the world. But extreme weather and failed crops have raised the specter of famine. Ships must push deeper into dangerous red zones, only to come back with less loot--and fewer soldiers. When the Hell Divers discover a scroll on a raid, King Xavier is faced with a long-buried...