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Paying the Piper Paying the Piper David Drake Another terrific story by Master Author David Drake. In this one we follow Lt. Arne Huber of Hammer's Slammers as he experiences the politics, horrors and double crosses of their new assignment on P… OL1000175W
Berserker Man Berserker Man Fred Saberhagen [Berserkers][1]: Relentless, remorseless, pity less, tireless, adaptive, cunning, self replicating, artificially intelligent, genocidal doomsday weapons of a long forgotten interstellar war between t… OL100120W
Star Wars - The Approaching Storm Star Wars - The Approaching Storm Alan Dean Foster In the years since the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, the Republic has continued to crumble, and more and more, the Jedi are needed to help the galactic government maintain order. As Star W… OL102606W
Icerigger Icerigger Alan Dean Foster Ethan Fortune was simple salesman -- knowledgeable and civilized . . . a sophisticated traveler between many worlds. But he had certainly never thought of himself as a hero. Skua September, on the ot… OL102608W
Footfall Footfall Jerry Pournelle,Larry Niven The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent … OL10587701W
The Legacy of Heorot The Legacy of Heorot Jerry Pournelle,Larry Niven,Steven Barnes Life in a colony on a newly settled planet. OL10587704W
Artifact Artifact Gregory Benford The discovery of a mysterious artifact in an ancient Greek tomb--an object concealing both the secret of Atlantis and an unimaginable power--leads Americans John and Claire into confrontation with Gr… OL108299W
In the Ocean of Night In the Ocean of Night Gregory Benford From the back cover Warner paperback February 2004: 2019: NASA astronaut Nigel Walmsley is sent on a mission to intercept a rogue asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Ordered to destroy the… OL108300W
Willie Bea and the time the Martians landed Willie Bea and the time the Martians landed Virginia Hamilton In October of 1938, on their farm homestead in Ohio, a black family is caught up in the fear generated by the Orson Welles "Martians have landed" broadcast. OL112113W
Doc Wilde and the frogs of doom Doc Wilde and the frogs of doom Tim Byrd There is never a dull moment when it comes to Doc Wilde and his family of swashbuckling explorers. Brian and Wren have been trained from an early age to keep up with their worldfamous father. With th… OL13604198W
The EGGbees The EGGbees Olivia Echeverria-Bis On a faraway planet, the EGGerson family is visited by relatives from a nearby country, MEGGxico, and although some of their shells are brown and some are white, the cousins soon discover that they h… OL13609025W
Aliens Aliens Perry, Janet Describes how alien monsters have been imagined in books and movies and examines real creatures in nature that resemble or may have served as inspiration for them. OL14851030W
Just add water and-- scream! Just add water and-- scream! Dan Greenburg When Zack and Spencer get the late-night munchies at a sleepover, they curb their hunger with some freeze-dried food that Zack got at the Air & Space Museum. After devouring freeze-dried ice cream an… OL14865250W
Engaging the Enemy Engaging the Enemy Elizabeth Moon For fans of fast-paced adventure and compelling characters, the military science fiction of Nebula Award--winning author Elizabeth Moon is the perfect choice. The brilliantly unorthodox Kylara Vatta,… OL14871715W
Marque and reprisal Marque and reprisal Elizabeth Moon Kylara Vatta, risk-taking, rule-breaking, can-do heroine of Trading in Danger, is back in business--the kind that's anything but usual--in the new military science fiction adventure by ace action sto… OL14871716W
Mindworlds Mindworlds Phyllis Gotlieb "The alien Lyhhrt are telepathically powerful enough to read the human mind; if they find you know too much, they can erase your memory, or simply stop your heart. The normally peaceful Lyhhrt societ… OL14872712W
The Dreaming Void The Dreaming Void Peter F. Hamilton The year is 3589, fifteen hundred years after Commonwealth forces barely staved off human extinction in a war against the alien Prime. Now an even greater danger has surfaced: a threat to the existen… OL14937852W
Funny Boy meets the airsick alien from Andromeda Funny Boy meets the airsick alien from Andromeda Dan Gutman,John S. Dykes Funny Boy, a superhero who disarms villains with his powerful sense of humor, is summoned to save Earth from a planet-gobbling alien from outer space. OL14949797W
Crown of slaves Crown of slaves David Weber,Eric Flint The Star Kingdom's ally Erewhon is growing increasingly restive in the alliance because the new High Ridge regime ignores its needs. Added to the longstanding problem of a slave labor planet controll… OL14951935W
Star Wars - Death Star Star Wars - Death Star Steve Perry,Michael Reaves The Death Star's name says it all, with bone-chilling accuracy. It is a virtual world unto itself—equipped with uncanny power for a singularly brutal purpose: to obliterate entire planets in the blin… OL14962601W
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