Rand, Ayn
Summary: This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1992
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caxton Press 2010
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Summary: This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2008
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Summary: The story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world--and did. This novel is the setting for the author's philosophy of objectivism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Signet 1996
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Summary: It is time to start the colonizing the solar system. Ex-astronaut, current space advisor, and all-out trouble shooter for the President, Jake Ross, is determined to make it happen. And what better way to return to America's glory than by returning to the moon and setting up a permanent moon-base which can then serve as the launching pad for Mars and beyond. But as usual, political intrigue and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor 2021
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Summary: In the aftermath of a terrible space accident, spaceplane scientist Dan Randolph, who designed the vehicle, realizes that his experiment was sabotaged and must outmaneuver terrorists, the government, and his creditors in order to prove himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2001
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Summary: "In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system. They discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has created a wave of deadly radiation, expanding out from the core toward Earth. Unless the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 2015
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Summary: "Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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Summary: Recruited by an ambitious senatorial candidate, astronomer Jake Ross is directed to promote a new innovation for cheap energy, a situation that is complicated by the technology's hazards and the extreme tactics used by both political rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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Summary: Astronaut Keith Stoner returns to Earth after a century exploring space and discovers disastrous greenhouse flooding, ultraconservative religious-based governments, and the world on the brink of nuclear war, and decides to help save the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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Summary: Jamie Waterman, unsettled since returning to Earth from a Mars expedition six years earlier, signs on as commander of a second mission to the Red Planet where he hopes to investigate a structure he glimpsed on his last visit that could only have been built by an intelligent being.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 1999
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Contents: Introduction -- Sam and the flying Dutchman -- Monster slayer -- Fifteen miles -- Muzhestvo -- Red sky at morning -- Greenhouse chill -- High jump -- Death on Venus -- The man who hated gravity -- Appointment in Sinai -- Sepulcher -- Leviathan -- Afterword: The roads ahead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Assoc. 2004
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Summary: Space traveling for an extended time to one of Saturn's moons, the crew of the enormous colony ship Goddard falls prey to long-standing tensions after a first exploration vessel mysteriously fails.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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Summary: When young Zita discovers a device that opens a portal to another place, and her best friend is abducted, she is compelled to set out on a strange journey from star to star in order to get back home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2010
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Summary: "Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out ... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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Summary: Having cleared the first and second floors of Aincrad at great cost, Kirito, Asuna, and the rest of the players ascend to the third floor. Tenuous new allies await them--most crucially, Kizmel, the elven knight. Kizmel is supposed to be a minor NPC with low-level AI, but she soon reveals herself to be much more. With new allies come new complications, though, and the elves of the vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen On 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2010
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Summary: "Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2016
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Summary: Mars "the bloody planet," is a world shrouded in mystery. As the source of endless fascination, Mars offers us the most promise for finding evidence of life. Half Navajo American Jamie Waterman is a geologist whose dream comes true when he is selected for the first landing team on Mars. He endures the rigors of training, the personality conflicts and political intrigues, as well as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1998
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Summary: "In the outer settlements of the human-occupied solar system, there are rumors about what was found deep under Neptune's frozen seas when a Hungarian billionaire's ship was lost with all hands. But the rumors are far more tame than the reality. When the billionaire's daughter mounts a mission to find the truth, her discoveries will up-end humanity's understanding of our origins on Earth"--...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2007
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Summary: Humans can't live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a privately financed orbital habitat above Uranus. He invites "the tired, the sick, the poor" of Earth to his orbital retreat where men and women can find spiritual peace and refuge from the world. The billionaire who financed Haven, however, has his own designs. Beyond the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020