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1) Dust
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Wool introduced the world of the Silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white -- everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity's continued survival. But can they work together long enough to succeed?"--...
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English
Description
With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the...
3) Wool
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Series
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English
Description
"The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of a community living in an underground silo completely unaware of the fate of the outside world. When the silo's sheriff asks to leave the silo, a series of events unravels the very fabric of their fragile lives. In a world where all commodities are precious and running out, truth and hope may be the most rare...and the most needed"--
4) Death's end
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace...
5) Shift
Author
Series
Silo trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
"In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same...
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Series
Expanse volume 5
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
532 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The fifth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel! A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen....
8) Cibola burn
Author
Series
Expanse volume 4
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Expanse volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
566 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Hidden empire
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Series
Saga of seven suns volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
453 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
In our galaxy's distant future, humans are one of three known intelligent races. Having had the ability to navigate star travel for only a few centuries, we are considered "the new kids on the block" in a long-established universe. The second intelligent race is the Ildirans, who are ruled by their Mage-Imperator; and the third race, the Klikiss, seems to have vanished and left behind a world full of artifacts and remarkable technology, which humans...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Description
It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory,...
12) Foundation
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Series
Publisher
Spectra/Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
The fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. Mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice : submit to the barbarians and be overrun, or fight them and be destroyed.
13) Fatal tide
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A high-stakes treasure hunt…A twisted trail of murder…A secret one woman may die to discover… Melis Nemid is treading in dangerous waters--and she’s about to be dragged under. As a marine researcher, Melis knows all too well the dangers that can lurk under even the calmest surfaces. But not even she can guess how deep the darkness runs. Only one oceanographer ever came close to discovering the deadly mystery that lies beneath the sea--and...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
369 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Spectra/Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004, 1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
xii, 282 p. ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
The Foundation, a colony of psychologists, battles for supreme power in the galaxy, while also struggling to preserve all the accumulated knowledge of humankind in The Foundation, a sanctuary created by Hari Seldon.
Author
Publisher
Spectra/Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
x, 279 p. ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14-year-old girl, seemed to have the answer--or did she?
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