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81) The Dig
Author
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
On a mission to investigate an asteroid on a collision course with the Earth, astronaut Boston Low discovers the planet Cocytus, once the home of an advanced society, now a haunted world.
83) Steam
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Arlo escapes his abusive guardians on Earth through an intergalactic portal to the steam-powered planet of Pother where he joins a group who work to protect the planet's resources, giving Arlo a chance to discover his own self-worth.
Author
Series
Dragonback volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Jack, who is the human host in a symbiotic relationship with a dragon warrior named Draycos, joins a mercenary outfit to uncover those behind a vast conspiracy to wipe out Draycos's race.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Set two hundred years before the events of the Skywalker Saga, a new cross-platform Star Wars series finds a young Padawan, an audacious high-tech kid, and the son of an ambassador stranded on a hostile jungle moon when their transport is upended by a galaxy-wide disaster.
88) Alien mix-up
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Bob and the team have a job to do at the new space-themed restaurant. But is there an alien on the loose in Sprint City?"--Back cover.
89) Look to windward
Author
Series
Culture Universe series volume 7
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Eight hundred years after two suns were exploded in order to end a war, "light from the first explosion is about to reach the Masaq' Orbital, home to the Culture's most adventurous and decadent souls. There it will fall upon Masaq's 50 billion inhabitants, gathered to commemorate the deaths of the innocent," and on Major Quilan, an emissary from the war-ravaged world of Chel.--Jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
With the planet Mars rapidly changing from red to gray, scientists send a probe to investigate the situation, and discover that the planet is being used as a staging ground for an invasion of Earth by a robotic race intent on destroying human civilization.
92) Pushing ice
Author
Language
English
Description
The year is 2057. Humanity has raised exploiting the solar system to an art form and Bella Lind and the crew of her nuclear-powered ship, the Rockhopper, are the best at what they do: pushing ice. Near the end of their current mission cycle, startling news arrives from Saturn: Janus, one of Saturn's ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the solar system at high speed. Bella Lind and the Rockhopper have been assigned...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
While residents of the planet Valo prepare to welcome visitors from all over the galaxy for the Republic Fair, Jedi Padawan Ram Jomaran discovers that someone has knocked out Valo's communications tower, and as the dreaded Nihil unleash a surprise attack, it's up to Ram to face the enemy and send a call for help to the Republic.
Author
Series
Dune novels. Schools of Dune volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Navigators of Dune is the climactic finale of the Great Schools of Dune trilogy, set 10,000 years before Frank Herbert's classicDune.
The story line tells the origins of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and its breeding program, the human-computer Mentats, and the Navigators (the Spacing Guild), as well as a crucial battle for the future of the human race, in which reason faces off against fanaticism. These events...
Author
Series
Children of a dead Earth volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A new generation comes of age eighteen years after humanity arrived on the colony planet Gaia. Now threats from both within and outside their Trident threaten everything they've built. The discovery of an alien installation inside Gaia's moon, terrorist attacks and the kidnap of a man's daughter stretch the community to breaking point, but only two men stand a chance of solving all three mysteries before the makeshift planetary government shuts everything...
99) Galaxias
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
What would happen to the world if the sun went out? By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has managed to overcome a series of catastrophic events and maintain some sense of stability. Space exploration has begun again. Science has led the way. But then one day, the sun goes out. Solar panels are useless, and the world begins to freeze. Earth begins to fall out of its orbit. The end is nigh.Someone has sent us a sign.
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