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Causing mass hysteria as listeners of its 1938 radio broadcast believed a Martian invasion of Earth really was taking place, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is perhaps the most famous novel of its genre. This 1898 story has spawned films, radio and television series and comic-book adaptions, and its popularity endures today.
2) Redshirts
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Publisher
Tor
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English
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Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.
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Expanse volume 2
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English
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We are not alone. On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system. In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of...
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Expanse volume 3
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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An alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core.
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Expanse volume 1
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English
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Humanity has colonized the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond -- but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for -- and kill on a scale unfathomable to...
6) Cibola burn
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Expanse volume 4
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Orbit
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English
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The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule. But Holden and his crew must also contend with the...
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Transformation volume 1
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Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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After awakening one hundred years after his death at the hands of a haywire AI, Thorvald Spear vows revenge on the machine intelligence and marshalls Isobel Satomi, former criminal and part AI herself, to his cause.
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Quadrail volume 5
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Tor
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Frank Compton of Earth, aided by the enigmatic woman Bayta, has fought on the front lines, using every bit of his human ingenuity and secret agent skills to outwit the Modhri, a group intelligence that would control the minds of every sentient being it can touch.
11) A call to arms
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Manticore Ascendant volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Dieter Lanz's regiment, "The Scarlets", is called into battle when an orc army starts a rampage across the country. The Scarlet's are defeated and now Hochland is threatened with collapse.
12) Union of souls
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Gigaparsec volume 3
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CreateSpace Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Reuben Black Ram has been a hacker for Special Forces, a DJ for pirate radio, and a real pirate who hotwires spaceships. The richest Goat in the galaxy, he is being asked to give up everything to save a race of alien mimics and his Human girlfriend. To accomplish this, he must cross Union space to reach the Convocation of Souls.
13) Mission of honor
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Honor Harrington volume 12
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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As the Republic of Haven, the Solarian League, and other hidden enemies bear down on the Star Kingdom of Manticore, Honor Harrington must do all she can to prevent billions of people from being killed in an all-out galactic war.
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Safehold volume 8
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
Description
Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race, and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the re-emergence of industrial civilization. But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan... --Publisher....
15) Captured
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Series
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2009
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Count Dooku are all prisoners of space pirates; this unlikely team must work together to escape their captors before their differences get the better of them.
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Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
Description
Spending their honeymoon on a luxury vessel journeying to the most wondrous worlds in the galaxy, Han Solo and Princess Leia soon discover that the war is not over as the remnants of the Empire still cling to power, bringing the fight to them.
17) Target
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Series
Star Wars rebel force volume 1
Publisher
Lucas Books/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The Death Star has been destroyed, but back at the Rebel base the celebration is over. The Alliance has intercepted a coded transmission, indicating that the Empire is determine to discover which pilot was responsible for the destruction of the Death Star. New security protocol is in effect, and the details of the Death Star mission are now top secret. No one is to know that Luke fired the decisive shot.
18) Into the void
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Series
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Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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When Jax Pavan, one of the few remaining Jedi, takes on the vital mission of transporting a rebel leader away from Coruscant, he and his crew face the might of Darth Vader, who will stop at nothing to exterminate the Jedi.
Author
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Star Wars volume 1
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Published by Dark Horse Books , a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
Description
"Princess Leia forms a stealth squadron of her best pilots--including Luke Skywalker--to expose a spy and find the Rebel Alliance a safe home"--
20) Hostage
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Star Wars rebel force volume 2
Publisher
Lucas Books/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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The deadly assassin contracted by the Empire, X-7, is closer than ever to discovering the identity of his target. He's already infiltrated the top levels of the Rebel Alliance and gained Princess Leia's trust but he still hasn't been able to get Leia to give up the classified information he desperately needs. After all, Leia Organa is unbreakable: the youngest, toughest member of the Galactic Senate, and, since its dissolution, the fiercest opponent...
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