Anderson, John David
Summary: Leo Fender is no stranger to catastrophe, whether it's the intergalactic war that took his mother's life or the ongoing fight for his own. He's seen his planet plundered, his ship attacked, his father kidnapped, and his brother go missing, and found himself stranded on a ship with a bunch of mercenary space pirates. Still, nothing could have prepared him for the moment he and the crew tried to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ANDBrezenoff, Steven
Summary: Twelve-year-old Amelia is the youngest member of crew on the Meddler, a spaceship that salvages scrap metal and anything else of value; currently they are interested in exploiting a debris field near the planet Canus, home to their cabin boy Greeny and his dog-like race, and Amelia is mad because her mother will not let her take part, so she and Greeny stow away on the salvage ship--but not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BREHansen, Essa
Summary: "Caiden has been on the run for ten years with his unique starship in order to keep his adversary, Threi, imprisoned. But when an old friend he'd once thought dead reappears, he is lured into a game of cat and mouse with the one person whose powers rival Threi's: Threi's sister Abriss. Now with both siblings on the hunt for Caiden and his ship, Caiden must rescue his long-lost friend from their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANLostetter, Marina J.
Summary: Generations ago, Convoy Seven and the AI known as I.C.C. left Earth on a mission that would take them far beyond our solar system. Launched by the Planet United Consortium, a global group formed to pursue cooperative Earth-wide interests in deep space, nine ships headed into the unknown to explore a distant star called LQ Pyx. Eons later, the convoy has returned to LQ Pyx to begin work on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOSSønderby, Kaia
Summary: "As one of the only remaining autistics in the universe, Xandri Corelel has faced a lot of hardship, and she's earned her place as the head of Xeno-Liaisons aboard the first contact ship Carpathia. But her skill at negotiating with alien species is about to be put to the ultimate test. The Anmerilli, a notoriously reticent and xenophobic people, have invented a powerful weapon that will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Kraken Collective 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SONNiven, 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 NIVSandford, John
Summary: "An extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly wit, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now, in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2015
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SANMartin, George R. R.
Summary: "Aliens meets Psycho with a chilling mystery set on a haunted spaceship in this illustrated edition of a classic novella, soon to be an original series on SYFY, by the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones. When a scientific expedition is launched to study a mysterious alien race, the only ship available is the Nightflyer, a fully autonomous vessel manned by a single human. But Captain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARBonanno, Margaret Wander.
Summary: The mysterious probe that almost destroyed Earth in Star Trek IV reappears and the Enterprise is sent to find its secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BONCampbell, Jack
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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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAMLostetter, Marina J.
Summary: "The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic, standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra. When Unit Four--a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere--is activated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021