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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Humanity's last hope of survival lies in space... but will a random death doom the venture? Our planet is dying and the world's remaining nations have pooled their resources to build a seed ship that will carry colonists on a multi-generational journey to a distant planet. Everything is set for a bright adventure... and then someone is found hanging dead just weeks before the launch. Fear and paranoia spread as the death begins to look more and more...
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When Chen's parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. While Chen's quest for answers gives purpose to his lonely...
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A Tor Book published by Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu, The Wandering Earth is a science fiction short story collection featuring the title tale--the basis for the blockbuster international film, now streaming on Netflix. These ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, are a blazingly original ode to planet Earth, its pasts, and its futures. Liu's fiction takes the reader to the edge of the universe and the end of time, to meet stranger...
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The Earthburst Saga volume Book 3
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Ignacio Zola saw billions of lives as collateral damage in his plan to reach a new world. But when I got in his way, I didn't just make him angry. I made this personal. Everything rests on Operation Starshot: a one-in-a-million mission to finish what I've started. And even if I survive a journey nothing could prepare me for, I know who'll be waiting on the other side.
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The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.
Ryland Grace has been asleep for a very, very long time. He's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. He can't remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how...
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Tor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes under threat when Destry discovers a city full of people that shouldn't exist, hidden inside a massive volcano. As she uncovers more about their past, Destry begins to question the mission she's devoted...
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The Earthburst Saga volume Book 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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As a visiting researcher on the wondrous Beacon space station, Ray Barclay wants to make a real difference to a troubled world. His fuel enrichment work is set to usher in a new era of clean energy and distant exploration. When an incomprehensible disaster ravages the whole station beyond Ray's highly insulated lab, he knows the timing can be no coincidence. He also knows that his life depends on somehow contacting Earth for help. But exploring the...
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The Earthburst Saga volume Book 2
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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I've made it down from the solitude of the station, all the way to an incredible underground bunker complex. I'm surrounded by secret cutting-edge technologies that almost defy belief. In just three days, the final stage of Ignacio Zola's demented plan to reach a new world will eliminate all life on Earth, unless I can pull off a miracle. I'm the man who uncovered Zola's plan. And now, I'm the only man who can stop him.
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Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this spellbinding novel from Hugo Award-winning author Hao Jingfang. This genre-bending novel is set on Earth in the wake of a second civil war...not between two factions in one nation, but...
10) Red moon
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Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Kim Stanley Robinson is a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of more than twenty books, including the bestselling Mars trilogy and the critically acclaimed Forty Signs of Rain, The Years of Rice and Salt and 2312. In 2008, he was named a "Hero of the Environment" by Time magazine, and he works with the Sierra Nevada Research Institute. He lives in Davis, California"--
"It is twenty-five years...
11) Wild warriors
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The New Frontier volume Book 3
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
From his throne in Salt Lake City, Rattlesnake leader Eddy "Ahiga" Nez rules the wild lands through terror and violence despite a ceasefire he signed with the newly inaugurated American President. As more blood spills, Raven, Calvin, and Lindsey band together in one last effort to save their home. But to do that, they must stop the source of the evil destroying the New Frontier. Eddy Nez must die.
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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After a mysterious global event known only as 'The Change,' six strangers wake up in an underground research facility where they learn that they're part of the Extinction Trials--a scientific experiment to restart the human race. But the Extinction Trials harbors a very big secret. And so does the world outside.
13) (ID)ENTITY
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Phoenix Horizon volume 2
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
In the guise of political revolutionary Thomas Paine, bioengineer Peter Bernhardt brought down the corrupt and powerful Phoenix Club - and then turned revolution into evolution by becoming the first artificial human intelligence: Major Tom. In the two years since Major Tom revealed his digital existence and spread his freedom manifesto, he has been revered as a god and vilified as a demon. The United States and Europe have splintered into ideologically...
14) Gunpowder moon
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Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Moon smells like gunpowder. Every lunar walker since Apollo 11 has noticed it: a burnt-metal scent that reminds them of war. Caden Dechert, the chief of the U.S. mining operation on the edge of the Sea of Serenity, thinks the smell is just a trick of the mind--a reminder of his harrowing days as a Marine in the war-torn Middle East back on Earth. It's 2072, and lunar helium-3 mining is powering the fusion reactors that are bringing Earth back...
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HARPER Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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China's one-child policy and its cultural preference for male heirs have created a society overrun by forty million unmarriageable men. By the year 2030, more than 25 percent of men in their late thirties will not have a family of their own. An Excess Male is the story of one such leftover man's quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritarian measures, reinvigorated communist ideals,...
16) Survival
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Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. In Survival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred light years in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. The sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons, and have survived earlier "death waves," gamma ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient,...
17) Power failure
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Series
Jake Ross novels volume 3
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for Jake Ross."--
19) The dark side
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Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this dark and gripping sci-fi noir, an exiled police detective arrives at a lunar penal colony just as a psychotic android begins a murderous odyssey across the far side of the moon." --
20) Wild lands
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Series
The New Frontier volume Book 2
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One month after the defeat of a rogue group of terrorists, the United States struggles to maintain control over the New Frontier. An extremist faction of the Navajo Nation called the Rattlesnakes have waited years for this moment. Their leader launches their first, brutal attack on a water treatment and power facility in Colorado. The message is clear to Colorado Sheriff Lindsey Plymouth and her foreign allies working to keep peace: a new enemy has...
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