Dawson, Delilah S.
Summary: After devastating losses at the hands of the First Order, General Leia Organa has dispatched her agents across the galaxy in search of allies, sanctuary, and firepower--and her top spy, Vi Moradi, may have just found all three, on a secluded world at the galaxy's edge. A planet of lush forests, precarious mountains, and towering, petrified trees, Batuu is on the furthest possible frontier of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWNiven, Larry.
Summary: In 3016, the 2nd Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to faster-than-light Alderson Drive. Intelligent beings are finally found from the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud. The bottled-up ancient civilization, at least one million years old, are welcoming, kind, yet evasive, with a dark problem they have not solved in over a million years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1974
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVChambers, Becky
Summary: Rosemary Harper doesn't expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers a bed, a chance to explore the galaxy, and some distance from her past. The crew is diverse: Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot; chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, the captain. They are offered a job tunneling wormholes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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Summary: After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project--including its members' dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOWCorey, James S. A.
Summary: When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2011
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Summary: To save his father, a Coalition scientist protecting a precious resource, after their ship is attacked, Leo stows away on a strange ship of mercenary space pirates and must decide who to trust- human or alien-to stay alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANDDuvall, Dianne
Summary: After a spaceship is attacked, an Earthling survivor, Eliana, is finally rescued by Commander Dagon. As he and Eliana hunt for her missing friends, a bond grows between them, until Eliana becomes the hunted one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DUVPowell, Gareth
Summary: The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. When a civilian ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POWScalzi, John
Summary: Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCAWells, Martha
Summary: A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2017
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Summary: Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that’s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn't much better than a prison cell. Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail might be exactly where she’s headed. Instead Zara is recruited into the Honors, an elite team...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAICampbell, Jack
Summary: "Earth, 2180 Genetically engineered with partly-alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is different than ordinary humans. And they hate her for it. Still, she's spent her life trying to overcome society's prejudice by serving in the Unified Fleet as Earth's international order collapses into war. Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity's hatreds and factions on the planet reach a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMElliott, Kate
Summary: Princess Sun has finally come of age. Growing up in the shadow of her mother, Eirene, has been no easy task. The legendary queen-marshal did what everyone thought impossible: expel the invaders and build Chaonia into a magnificent republic, one to be respected--and feared. But the cutthroat ambassador corps and conniving noble houses have never ceased to scheme--and they have plans that need...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLKowal, Mary Robinette
Summary: "On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOWLewis, Linden A.
Summary: "First Sister has no name and no voice. As a priestess of the Sisterhood, she travels the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth and Mars - the same ones who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister's hopes for freedom are dashed when she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no power, and a new captain - Saito Ren - whom she knows nothing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skybound Books/Gallery Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEWMihalik, Jessie
Summary: "Octavia Zarola would do anything to keep her tiny, close-knit bounty hunting crew together, even if it means accepting a job from Torran Fletcher, a ruthless former general and her sworn enemy. When Torran offers her enough credits to not only keep her crew afloat but also hire someone to fix her ship, Tavi knows that she can't refuse, no matter how much she'd like to. With so much money on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MIHO'Keefe, Megan E.
Summary: "Humanity is running out of options. Habitable planets are being destroyed as quickly as they're found, and Naira Sharp thinks she knows the reason why. The all-powerful Mercator family has been controlling the exploration of the universe for decades, and exploiting any materials they find along the way under the guise of helping humanity's expansion. But Naira knows the truth, and she plans to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC O'KEFay, Constance
Summary: "The captain of a ragtag mercenary ship is given an offer she can't refuse by the ruthless head of an intergalactic noble family. The only catch? She'll have to team up with his son--an upsettingly competent hardbody with his own agenda--to get her reward. She's got a ramshackle spaceship, a misfit crew, and a big problem with its sexy newest member... Temperance Reed, banished from the wealthy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bramble, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FAYCard, Orson Scott.
Summary: Struggling with outdated systems and claim-jumping corporate interests in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, a family on board the cramped mining ship El Cavador spots a rapidly approaching object moving toward the solar system that triggers a catastrophic war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SCI.FIC CARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Card 2012Smith, Nicholas Sansbury
Summary: The year is 2061, and the planet is dying. The human race is headed to Mars. When Dr. Sophie Winston and her team train for the flight, they come back to an abandoned earth. No humans and no water.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021