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There and back again There and back again Pat Murphy Bailey was heading home in his steam-powered rocket when he found a message pod. It was only by luck that he spotted it, disabled and drifting in an eccentric orbit around a large M-type asteroid. St… OL15436385W
Judas unchained Judas unchained Peter F. Hamilton The previous novel, Pandora's Star, introduced the Intersolar Commonwealth, a star-spanning civilization of the twenty-fourth century. Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a s… OL15739965W
Star Trek New Frontier - Blind Man's Bluff Star Trek New Frontier - Blind Man's Bluff Peter David Nothing could have prepared Captain Calhoun for simultaneous threats from the D'myurj, bent on the domination or destruction of humanity, and Morgan Primus, a sophisticated computer simulation taking… OL16319355W
Earth Unaware Earth Unaware Orson Scott Card,Aaron Johnston The mining ship El Cavador, beyond Pluto, detects a fast-moving incoming object headed toward Earth. The crew decides it's probably not important, but they're wrong: it represents the opening wave of… OL16585661W
The battle of the hammer worlds The battle of the hammer worlds Graham Sharp Paul Junior Lieutenant Michael Helfort and the other remnants of the Ishaq are confined to a prison camp, forced to do battle against an enemy out to hide all evidence of their culpability in an attack on… OL17657287W
Alpha centauri Alpha centauri Barton, William The word in the year 2239 is that the human race is doomed. With the Earth groaning beneath the weight of 200 billion people and with the limit of derivable scientific knowledge frighteningly close a… OL17727278W
The Freeze-Frame Revolution The Freeze-Frame Revolution Peter Watts "How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that nev… OL19359160W
Take back the skies Take back the skies Lucy Saxon To escape from a planned arranged marriage, teenaged Cat Hunter disguises herself as a boy and stows away on a smuggler's airship where she discovers a world of excitement and adventure. To escape f… OL19980915W
Martians abroad Martians abroad Carrie Vaughn Fearing her dream of becoming a galaxy-traveling starship pilot will never come true when she is sent to Earth's Galileo Academy, Polly teams up with her popular brother to investigate dangerous coin… OL20047010W
Will Save The Galaxy For Food Will Save The Galaxy For Food Yahtzee Croshaw 286 pages : 23 cm OL20636722W
Star Trek Discovery - The Enterprise War Star Trek Discovery - The Enterprise War John Jackson Miller A shattered ship, a divided crew—trapped in the infernal nightmare of conflict! Hearing of the outbreak of hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire, Captain Christ… OL20847054W
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Douglas Adams The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "trilogy" by Douglas Adams, and is a sequel. It was originally published by… OL2163655W
Works (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Univer… Works (Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Restaurant at the End of the Universe / Life, the Univer… Douglas Adams This is the collection of all five of the books in Douglas Adams' famous galaxy exploring trilogy. It follows Arthur Dent and his friends as they travel around the Milky Way meeting strange new cult… OL2163706W
The empress game The empress game Rhonda Mason "One seat on the intergalactic Sakien Empire's supreme ruling body, the Council of Seven, remains unfilled, that of the Empress Apparent. The seat isn't won by votes or marriage. It's won in a tourna… OL22051792W
Star Trek - Serpents in the Garden Star Trek - Serpents in the Garden Jeff Mariotte Early in his five-year mission commanding the U.S.S. Enterprise, Captain James T. Kirk found himself caught up in a growing conflict on the planet Neural. To maintain the balance of power against a f… OL22309495W
Herald of the flame Herald of the flame Sylvia Engdahl After saving the secret colony Maclairn from terrorists, Terry Steward sets out in his starship to carry on with the plan to spread advanced mind powers to all humankind. Yet opponents of this plan … OL22929374W
Lightspeed Lightspeed E. Douglas Ward,Lonie Blackman Ward Lightspeed is a continuous saga of one family's search through the centuries to find the secret of light--enabling man to travel in space throughout earth's solar system and the vast galaxies in the … OL26448064W
Methuselah Methuselah Ron Stieger In the distant future, interstellar travel and brain emulations are common. Dinosaurs have been brought back from extinction. New religions are flourishing. But something dangerous lurks in the depth… OL27021838W
Star Trek New Frontier - After the Fall Star Trek New Frontier - After the Fall Peter David Three years have passed since the events depicted in the novel Stone and Anvil, and for the past and present crew members of the USS Excalibur, life has taken many surprising twists and turns. Captai… OL8126206W
Death sentence Death sentence Roger MacBride Allen They are the elite agents of interstellar investigation and their duty is to preserve and protect humanity throughout the galaxy. They are the men and women of the Bureau of Special Investigations (B… OL92390W
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