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Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A comet collides with Earth, causing a portion of the world to go floating off into space with it. On this new asteroid, thirty-six survivors of various nationalities will first need to uncover the truth of their circumstances before adapting to their new environment. But when it's determined the comet is on a return course to Earth, can the group survive long enough to come up with a plan to get back on the planet?
Author
Series
Remembrance of Earth's past volume 4
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When the preserved mind of brilliant Yun Tianming begins relaying secrets about faster-than-light propulsion, Earth's scientists gain valuable defensive insights while discovering what happened to Tianming after he was intercepted by the Trisolarians.
Author
Series
Ambit's run volume 1
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union's labor's leverage; between them the Guild tries to keep everyone's hands above the table.
Author
Series
Maximum ride volume 11
Publisher
Yen Press, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Offers the next manga volume in a series in which a band of genetically modified children who can fly known as the Flock seek out their origins and purpose.
Author
Series
Last human volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a post-war world where robots and humans coexist, XR_935 and Emma strive to maintain a fragile peace, but tensions rise as a group of humans resists reconciliation, raising the threat of potential upheaval and the end of their harmonious society.
Author
Series
Fog diver volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The fatal white mist has shrouded the earth for centuries, while humanity struggles to survive the rule of the wealthy Five Families atop the highest mountain peaks. Thirteen-year-old tetherboy Chess and his salvage crew sell everything they can find just to see another day. The ruthless Lord Kodoc will not rest until he has used the boy's secret against him. Now, Chess must find a way to face his greatest fear to protect his fierce friends.
Author
Series
N.O.A.H. files volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Noah Prime never expected to wind up a fugitive hunted by aliens. To be honest, he had never even believed in aliens until a team of them blew up his house. He escaped-and managed to save the world-by using his mysterious ability to harness the traits of every animal on earth. Now he's in hiding, and thinks all is well. Until his friend Ogden buys a star for Claire, the most popular girl in school. However, instead of a quaint romantic notion, it...
Author
Series
Icarus volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
There wasn't much money to be made as a Trailblazer, searching out new worlds for possible development. Still, it was safer than the bounty hunter career that had cost Gregory Roarke his left arm six years ago. And thanks to his Kadolian partner Selene's ultrasensitive sense of smell, they occasionally discovered a medically promising seed or spore they could sell under the table. It was a quiet life, uneventful and mostly legal. Until Roarke was...
10) The solar war
Author
Series
Long winter volume 2
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Long Winter is over. We survived. But only just. On a ruined world, we rebuild, watching the sky, waiting for any sign of their return. With only nine million survivors from a population of billions, humanity's survival is far from guaranteed but with the glaciers receding, there is now, at least, a chance. But out on the edges of the solar system, beyond Neptune's orbit, three vast asteroids have broken free from the Kuiper Belt and started the...
11) The lost colony
Author
Series
Long winter volume 3
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On Eos, the last survivors of the Long Winter face their greatest challenge yet--and race to unravel the deepest secrets of the grid. * * * The last survivors of the human race escaped a ruined Earth. Their new homeworld--Eos--seemed perfect at first. Warm. Hospitable. Safe from the grid. But everything isn't as it seems. The first colony of settlers--from the Carthage--have disappeared. Their settlement is still there, but everyone is gone. As James...
12) Predestination
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Solve the murder to save what's left of the world. Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists. Until, to the horror of the islanders,...
14) The Icarus twin
Author
Series
Icarus volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they quietly work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye. Roarke and Selene are...
15) Winter world
Author
Series
Long winter volume 1
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Within three months, ice will cover the earth, and life as we know it will end. It was the last thing we expected, but the world is freezing. A new ice age has dawned and humanity has been forced to confront its own extinction. Billions have fled the glaciers, crowding out the world's last habitable zones. They can run from the ice, but they can't escape human nature: a cataclysmic war is coming. In orbit, a group of scientists is running the Winter...
16) Heavenly tyrant
Author
Series
Iron widow volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself at the seat of power in Huaxia. But she has also learned that her world is not as it seems, and revelations about an enemy more daunting than Zetian imagined forces her to share power with a dangerous man she cannot simply depose. Despite having vastly different ideas about how they must deconstruct the corrupt and misogynist system that plagues their country, Zetian...
17) Cyborg 2087
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the year 2087, freedom of thought is forbidden and a cyborg is sent back in time to prevent a scientist from making the discovery that led to government control of people's minds.
Author
Publisher
Fairwood Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Beck Garrison lives on a seastead -- an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, assembled by libertarian separatists a generation ago. She's grown up comfortable and sheltered, but starts doing odd jobs for pocket money. To her surprise, she finds that she's the only detective that a debt slave can afford to hire to track down a woman's missing sister. When she tackles this investigation, she learns things about life on the other...
19) Poor things
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The incredible tale of Bella Baxter, a young woman brought back to life by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist. Seeking the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times,Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In season four, an unknown force is destroying starships and threatening galactic peace. Luckily, the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos isn't important enough for stuff like that! Instead, Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Tendi, Rutherford, and Provisional Ensign T'Lyn are keeping up with their Starfleet duties, avoiding malevolent computers and getting stuck in a couple of caves all while encountering new and classic aliens!
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