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Flinx (Fictitious character) Fiction Human-alien encounters Human-alien encounters Fiction Human-alien encounters Juvenile fiction Humanx Commonwealth (Imaginary organization) Fiction Life on other planets Fiction Robots Fiction Science fiction Space warfare Fiction Star Wars fictionWheaton, Mark
Summary: Emily is an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to. Her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome that may save them all. But not everyone is convinced Emily has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHERiddle, A. G.
Summary: In Marbella, Spain, Dr. Kate Warner awakens to a horrifying reality: the human race stands on the brink of extinction. A pandemic unlike any before it has swept the globe. Nearly a billion people are dead--and those the Atlantis Plague doesn't kill, it transforms at the genetic level. A few rapidly evolve. The remainder devolve. As the world slips into chaos, radical solutions emerge....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kindle Direct Publishing] 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RIDSummary: Captain Jonathan Archer leads the crew of the starship Enterprise in humanity's first contact with a myriad of alien species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STACho, Elaine U.
Summary: "Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju Island's beloved female divers. She doesn't like soju, constantly misses cultural references, and despite her love of the game, people still say that she doesn't play Hwatu like a Korean. Ocean's also persona non grata at the Alliance, Korea's solar system-dominating space agency, since a mission...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hillman Grad Books, a Zando imprint 2024
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Summary: "Unlikely duo Pip and Flinx return to right another wrong in this all-new sci-fi adventure from one of the genre's living legends. Fans of fun, fast-paced, imaginative science fiction adventure, rejoice! #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster returns to his much-loved Commonwealth series with a new novel starring the indefatigable Flinx and his venomous minidrag, Pip. Facing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSFoster, Alan Dean
Summary: Flinx is the only one with even the tiniest chance of stopping the evil colossus barreling in to destroy the Humanx Commonwealth (and everything else in the Milky Way). With time running out, he must seek out an ancient sentient weapons platform, dodge oblivion-craving assassins, and escape the bloodthirsty AAnn--all while venturing to places where the laws of physics fear to tread!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSFoster, Alan Dean
Summary: In the penultimate volume in the long-running science fiction series featuring the interstellar adventures of Flinx and his mini-drag sidekick Pip, Philip Lynx finally gets the chance to uncover the true identity of his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2007
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Contents: For love of Mother-Not -- The Tar-Aiym Krang -- Orphan star.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SFBC 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSFoster, Alan Dean
Summary: Sent on an exploratory expedition to a distant planetary system outside the Commonwealth, an AI probe is stunned by the sudden materialization of an entirely new planet known as Quofum, populated by extraordinary inhabitants whose intentions are quite mysterious, in an interstellar adventure set in the world of PIP and Flinx.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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Summary: "Papi, a calamity physicist, believes he has made a breakthrough that will let him close all the wormholes Sal and Gabi have made in the membrane between universes. But how will that affect Gabi's baby brother, Iggy, who needs to be connected to another universe in order to remain healthy? And what will it mean for Sal, who uses the holes to stay in touch with other versions of his Mami Muerta?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSFoster, Alan Dean
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Pub. Group 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOSFoster, Alan Dean
Summary: In exchange for having his friends look after his injured love Clarity Held, Flinx and his mini-drag Pip journey to a remote region of the galaxy to seek out a dangerous, sentient weapons system capable of destroying the entire Commonwealth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey/Ballantine Books 2006
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Summary: 2088. Humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth's solar system. Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the laws of physics, and proposes the creation of a deep-space mission to find out whether the star is a weird natural phenomenon, or something manufactured. The journey will take eons. In order to maintain the genetic talent of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOSScott, Cavan
Summary: "When their parents are kidnapped by the Empire while exploring the far reaches of Wild Space, Milo and Lina Graf set out to rescue them. With their monkey-lizard, Morq, and their family droid, CR-8R, Milo and Lina fly their parents' starship, the Whisper Bird, to the remote planet of Thune to ask an old friend for help. But the evil Captain Korda has set a trap for them! Will Milo and Lina be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Lucasfilm Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J SWaws 1Huddleston, Tom
Summary: When the parents of Milo and Lina Graf are abducted by agents of the evil Empire, the children must undertake a perilous journey across the unknown reaches of Wild Space to rescue them - and to discover hope for the future. Milo and Lina trace their latest clue to a remote jungle world where a terrifying beast lies in wait.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Lucasfilm Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J SWaws 2Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HUDRiddle, A. G.
Summary: Northern Morocco: Dr. Kate Warner cured a global pandemic, and she thought she could cure herself. She was wrong. And she was wrong about the scope of the Atlantis conspiracy. Humanity faces a new threat, an enemy beyond imagination. With her own time running out and the utter collapse of human civilization looming, a new hope arrives: a coded message from a potential ally. Arecibo Observatory:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.G. Riddle 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RIDWeber, David
Summary: In an effort to find out why accidents are plaguing Sphinx's younger inhabitants, fifteen-year-old Stephanie Harrington attempts things she never imaged doing--including going undercover into the wilds of the late-night club scene, a realm where her faithful treecat guardian, Lionheart, cannot follow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEBWells, Martha
Summary: "Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes to a thrilling conclusion in Exit Strategy. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018
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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 ANDCaine, Rachel
Summary: Savvy criminal turned skilled Leviathan pilot Zara Cole finds new friends and clashes with bitter enemies in the second book of this action-packed series from New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre that's perfect for fans of The 100 and The Fifth Wave. Zara Cole was a thief back on Earth, but she's been recently upgraded to intergalactic fugitive. On the run after a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAIWells, Martha
Summary: "Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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Summary: The story of how Leia Organa comes to join the Rebellion. Sixteen-year-old Princess Leia has been taking rigorous survival courses, practicing politics, and spearheading relief missions to worlds under Imperial control so that she becomes formally named heir to the throne of Alderaan. When her parents begin acting strange, sixteen-year-old Princes Leia sets out to uncover their secrets, putting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Lucasfilm Press 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRANess, Patrick
Summary: Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee, whose thoughts Todd can hear, too, whether he wants to or not, stumble upon an area of complete silence. They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2009