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3) Code to zero
Author
Language
English
Description
Top secret information about the United States first satellite launch in 1958 has been erased from the mind of American scientist Luke Lucas who must cure his own amnesia if he wants any chance to make the space shot successful.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the end of the fourth year of the Crisis Era, Yun Tianming, riddled with cancer, chose to end his life. His decision was the first step in a journey that would take him to the end of the universe and beyond. His brain was extracted from his body, flash frozen, put aboard a spacecraft, and launched on a trajectory that will intercept the Trisolarian First Fleet in a few centuries. It is a desperate plan, almost certain to fail. But there is an...
5) Ocean's echo
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell's hit debut, Winter's Orbit. Rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster Tennalhin Halkana can read minds. Tennal, like all neuromodified "readers," is a security threat on his own. But when controlled, readers are a rare asset. Not only can they read minds, but they can navigate chaotic space, the...
6) Dead silence
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The sequel to Saucer by the New York Times–bestselling author—a "humorous UFO thriller . . . a gripping aerial duel of saucers up and down the East Coast" (Publishers Weekly).
Rip Cantrell is brought back to give the saucer one last flight. Charlotte "Charley" Pine has started flying for a rich French tycoon, and there is believed to be another downed saucer somewhere in the area. Rip can't quite get over the...
Rip Cantrell is brought back to give the saucer one last flight. Charlotte "Charley" Pine has started flying for a rich French tycoon, and there is believed to be another downed saucer somewhere in the area. Rip can't quite get over the...
9) Skye above
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
49 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Skye has always had a fascination with flying. She'd love to be a pilot someday, like both of her parents, but deep down she really wishes she could be a bird. When Skye's parents take her to Costa Rica, she is thrilled about all of the beautiful exotic birds she'll get to see. What she doesn't realize is that her parents have three big surprises planned, and each will offer her a different opportunity to feel what it's like to fly....
10) A web of air
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or destroy--their new technology.
11) The hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
A second prequel to Ender's Game continues the sci-fi history of the Formic Wars and finds the warring nations and corporations of Earth struggling to set aside their differences to defend against an imminent alien invasion.
"A coalition of Earth's nations barely fought off the Formics' first scout ship. Now it's clear that there's a mother-ship out on edge of the system, and the aliens are prepared to take Earth by force. Can Earth's warring nations...
12) Flight school
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Little Penguin, who has the "soul of an eagle," enrolls in flight school.
13) The long cosmos
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 377 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Next--the hyper-intelligent post-humans--realize that the missive they received from the center of the galaxy contains instructions for kick-starting the development of an immense artificial intelligence knows as The Machine. But to build this computer the size of an Earth continent, they must obtain help from the more populous and still industrious worlds of mankind.
14) Generation ship
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyger
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
589 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world's best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they've sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren't responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It's a time when the entire crew should be coming...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren --a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. An act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile human body. And only one...
18) Winds of marque
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In a dense star sluster, the solar winds blow fiercely. The star-sailing ship HMSS Daring runs at full sheet on a secret mission from the Emperor himself: to hunt down and destroy a festering pirate threat. Armed with a letter of marque allowing them to collect the bounty of enemy vessels, the crew has been told to find the pirates' base by any means necessary. --
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
480 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a compelling tale of the glory that was. In the days of the great sailing ships, in the mid-twenty-first century, when magnetic sails drew cargo and passengers alike to every corner of the solar system, sailors had the highest status of all spacemen, and the crew of the luxury liner the River of Stars, the highest among all sailors. But development of the Farnsworth fusion drive doomed the sailing ships, and now the River of Stars is the last...
20) Tar Beach
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1991
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
A young girl dreams of flying above her Harlem home, claiming all she sees for herself and her family. Based on the author's quilt painting of the same name.
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