Lostetter, Marina J.
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 LOSHuddleston, 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 Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HUDAdams, Douglas
Summary: This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADASummary: "NEW STORIES AND ESSAYS FROM TOP AUTHORS AND EXPERT SCIENTISTS. Explorations of how interstellar travel may affect humanity by best-selling authors and scientists. The stars will change us. STELLARIS: PEOPLE OF THE STARS is a collection of original science fiction stories and nonfiction essays speculating about humanity's far-term expansion into the universe beyond the limits of our solar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STELeicht, Stina
Summary: "On the backwater planet of Brynner, at Persephone Station, a community of android refugees, all female, are hiding since they were able to awaken their AI and escape servitude. But the Serrao-Orlov Corporation is nothing if not tenacious, especially about its proprietary AIs, and it wants their property back. However, Persephone is run by Rosie, and they are in charge of an organized group of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEIDoerr, Anthony
Summary: Thirteen-year-old Anna, an orphan, lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople in a house of women who make their living embroidering the robes of priests. Restless, insatiably curious, Anna learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds a book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC DOEHeinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson)
Summary: Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEIZahn, Timothy
Summary: "Nicole Hammond is a Sibyl, a special human that has the ability to communicate with a strange alien ship called the Fyrantha. However, Nicole and all other sentient creatures are caught up in a war for control between two competing factions. Now, the street-kid turned rebel leader has a plan that would restore freedom to all who have been shanghaied by the strange ship. She just has to unite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHLostetter, 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 LOSOkorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellarjourney. But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC OKOGunn, James E.
Summary: "When Riley and Asha finally reached the planet Terminal and found the Transcendental Machine, a matter transmission device built by an ancient race, they chose to be "translated." Now in possession of intellectual and physical powers that set them above human limitations, the machine has transported them to two, separate, unknown planets among a possibility of billions. Riley and Asha know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNSummary: A collection of four stories in which two kids take on the Empire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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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