Collins, Ailynn
Summary: When the leaders of Fortuna colony decide they must leave after some human colonists disappear, their alien hosts, who welcomed them but never showed themselves, invite the colonists to a final feast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COLBurke, Sue
Summary: "Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life-form watches... and waits... Can humans learn how to communicate with the planet's sentient species and forge an alliance to prove that humans are more than mere tools?" - Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Tom Doherty Associates Book / Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURSteele, Allen M.
Summary: For the colonists on Coyote, the arrival of additional colonists, along with a repressive government, forces them to flee to new territory, but the harsh regime of the colonial governor threatens to engulf both sides in a full-scale rebellion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEGibbs, Stuart
Summary: In 2041 on Moon Base Alpha, thirteen-year-old Dash must solve the mystery of how Lars was poisoned before the base loses oxygen, forcing the colonists to return to Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GIBKaufman, Amie.
Summary: Flynn, leader of the rebellion on Avon, captures Jubilee "Lee" Chase, captain of the forces sent to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but later saves her and the two, caught between sides in a senseless war, flee together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KAUSteele, Allen M.
Summary: A group of political dissidents and their families escape the repressive world of twenty-first-century Earth to seek new lives as interstellar colonists, placing themselves in cold sleep for a two-century odyssey to the habitable world of Coyote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEHerbert, Brian.
Summary: Transforming a hostile planet decimated by natural disasters into a land of opportunity for desperate colonists, exiled General Adolphus forges alliances as part of a plan to overthrow the tyrannical government and uncovers an ancient civilization whose buried secrets threaten the galaxy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HER HH #2Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: SF Herbert 2011Wells, Martha
Summary: "Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom/Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLENewman, Emma
Summary: "From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity's future might be its undoing ... Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWBurke, Sue
Summary: Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission. But the Earthlings misunderstand the nature of the Pax settlement and its real leader. Even as Stevland attempts to protect his human tools, a more insidious enemy than the Earthlings makes itself known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUROnyebuchi, Tochi
Summary: "In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ONYNiven, Larry.
Summary: The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit intelligent technology. But by some miscalculation they have landed in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVNiven, Larry
Summary: "Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NIVXu, Wendy
Summary: "Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin's assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots--she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there's something about Kye that feels almost too human....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books / HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers 2023