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3) The outside
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Series
The outside volume 1
Language
English
Description
Super-intelligent AI Gods rule the galaxy. Their algorithms determine the rewards you reap before and after death. But the Gods give and the Gods take away. And Yasira has never been good at Gods... Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive on board The Pride of Jai that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone left inside. The Gods declare...
4) Small world
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Language
English
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Description
First, Nanda's entire world is the circle of her mother's arms but as she grows, she sees the wonder of whirligigs, fractals in the snow, and even the circle of the Earth, itself.
9) The deep sky
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Language
English
Description
"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind--except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation...
11) Shards of earth
Author
Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After Earth was destroyed mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared. The war over, its heroes forgotten, Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him. He scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. Now, fifty years...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"An A.I. wages war on a future it doesn't understand. Alice is the last human. Street-smart and bad-ass. After discovering what appears to be an A.I. personality in an antique data core, Alice decides to locate its home somewhere in the stargate network. At the very least she wants to lay him to rest because, as it turns out, she's stumbled upon the sentient control unit of a deadly ancient weapon system. Convincing the ghost of a raging warrior that...
Author
Series
Galaxy Zack volume 9
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
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Description
Zack is happy to test a new android his father helped develop for Nebulonics before she goes into production, but her ability to learn causes problems when she develops a crush on Zack after watching a romantic movie.
14) Fortuna
Author
Series
Nova vita protocol volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
552 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Scorpia Kaiser has always stood in the shadow of her older brother,Corvus, until the day he abandons their family to participate in a profitless war. However, becoming the heir to her mother's smuggling operation is not an easy transition for the always-rebellious, usually reckless, and occasionally drunk pilot of Fortuna, an aging cargo ship and the only home Scorpia has ever known. But when Corvus returns from the war and a deal turns deadly, Scorpia's...
15) Fearless
Author
Series
Fractal volume 1
Publisher
Flame Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
AD 2118. Humanity has colonised the Moon, Mars, Ceres and Europa. Captain Ellisa Shann commands Khidr, a search and rescue ship with a crew of twenty-five, tasked to assist the vast commercial freighters that supply the different solar system colonies. Shann has no legs and has taken to life in zero-g partly as a result. She is a talented tactician who has a tendency to take too much on her own shoulders. Now, while on a regular six-month patrol through...
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Series
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English
Description
"We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet. But it also transpires that the Shongairi expedition that nearly destroyed our home planet ... wasn't an official one. That, indeed, its commander may have been acting as an unwitting cats-paw for the Founders, the ancient alliance of very old,...
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Series
Galaxy Zack volume 8
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
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Description
When summer arrives on Nebulon, Zack discovers that his best friend, Drake, is afraid to learn to swim and decides to teach him before they go on a trip to water-covered planet Araxie.
Author
Series
Binti volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend for herself, alone on a ship full of the beings who murdered...
19) Blast off
Author
Publisher
New York Review Children's Collection
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her friends tease her for dreaming of being an astronaut, a young African American girl uses discarded items to make a spaceship for her interstellar journey.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Rocket is embarking on her first solo mission. Her goal? Place a satellite into orbit to take pictures of the beautiful unknown. With a few words of encouragement from Ground Control, Rocket sparks ignition and blasts off to discover all the beauty of outer space. But when it's time for reentry, she wonders if she can do it alone. With Ground Control's parting words in mind, Rocket trusts that she knows exactly what to do. She returns home at hypersonic...
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