McAulty, Todd
Summary: A thrilling adventure in a world one step away from total subjugation by machines After long years of war, the United States has sued for peace, yielding to a brutal coalition of nations ruled by fascist machines. One quarter of the country is under foreign occupation. Manhattan has been annexed by a weird robot monarchy, and in Tennessee, a permanent peace is being delicately negotiated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCACastro, Nachie.
Summary: "Dr. Hank Pym is the first scientist to study vibranium, a rare metal from the nation of Wakanda. He realizes that power can come from the control of vibranium-- and the villain Klaw does, too! Now, Dr. Pym must summon his alter ego: Ant-Man! Along with his partner, Wasp, he must stop Klaw and protect the vibranium"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel 2013
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Summary: "Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke and Locus Awards, returns with an enthralling new novel of power, theft, privilege and birthright. A power-driven young woman has just one chance to secure the status she craves and regain priceless lost artifacts prized by her people. She must free their thief from a prison planet from which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2017
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Summary: Qven was created to be a Presgr translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path before them: learn human ways, and eventually, make a match and serve as an intermediary between the dangerous alien Presgr and the human worlds. The realization that they might want something different isn't "optimal behavior". It's the type of behavior that will have you eliminated. But Qven...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2023
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Summary: "What if you once had thousands of bodies and near god-like technology at your disposal? And what if all of it were ripped away? The Lord of the Radch has given Breq command of the ship Mercy of Kalr and sent her to the only place she would have agreed to go -- to Athoek Station, where Lieutenant Awn's sister works in Horticulture. Athoek was annexed some six hundred years ago, and by now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2014
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Summary: "For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist, and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's enemy, the divided and quite possibly insane Anaander Mianaai--ruler of an empire at war with itself"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2015
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Summary: Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control of a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2013
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Summary: "A government ministry decides to increase national brain-power, and stave off the coming idiocracy, through a program of compulsory selective breeding. The propaganda efforts in support of this endeavor are amazing. The book ends on an ambiguous note: Is the victory of "human perverseness, human stupidity, human self-will" over autocratic bureaucracy a triumph? Or not? Macaulay - a beloved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022
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Summary: On an Indian reservation in North Dakota, a shooting war breaks out over a space-travel machine. Left by visiting aliens thousands of years ago, it allows men to go the alien world. Washington wants to destroy it, the Indians to use it to emigrate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1996
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANWang, Jack
Summary: Using handcrafted felt puppets, the authors recreate, in staged scenes and twelve words, the story of Luke Skywalker, who embarks on a quest to save the galaxy from the Death Star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2015
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Summary: "A young fleet officer and a Marine must stand together to defend their neighbors and their colony in this return to the powerful and action-packed Genesis Fleet saga from New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell. The recently colonized world of Glenlyon has learned that they're stronger when they stand with other star systems than when they are on their own. But after helping their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2019
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Summary: "After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact--which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series. After his return from space, Gabe is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2019
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Summary: A 200,000 word gathering of the best short fiction by Jack McDevitt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean Press 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1998
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Summary: Shel and his friend Dave journey through time in search of Shel's missing physicist-father, but make a devastating discovery that changes their lives forever when Shel violates their agreement not to visit the future.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2009
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Summary: Using handcrafted felt puppets, the authors recreate, in staged scenes and twelve words, the final chapter of the original trilogy, as Luke and Leia rescue Han, the rebel forces attack the second Death Star, and Luke confronts his heritage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2015
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Summary: "A young fleet officer and a Marine stand together to defend their colony in the continuation of the powerful and action-packed Genesis Fleet saga from New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell. In the three years since former fleet officer Rob Geary and former Marine Mele Darcy led improvised forces to repel attacks on the newly settled world of Glenlyon, tensions have only gotten worse....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2018
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Summary: Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary is ordered to undertake a perilous new mission outside of the reaches of human-occupied space. Geary's warships must escort a diplomatic and scientific mission across the dangerous, disintegrating remnants of the Syndicate Worlds empire. But even if he can make it to Midway Star System, the gateway to alien-controlled space, Geary will face former Syndicate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: As far from explored space as any human has ever been, Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary and the Alliance fleet are on their own, protecting a diplomatic mission in territory belonging to an alien species with still-unknown motives. Presented with orders to carry out actions he believes not only are mistaken but would be contrary to the ideals of the Alliance, Geary has to decide whether he must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Admiral Geary's First Fleet of the Alliance survives the journey deep into unexplored interstellar space, a voyage that led to the discovery of new alien species, including a new enemy and a possible ally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2013