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FICTION / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure FICTION / Science Fiction / Alien Contact FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera Human-alien encounters Fiction Imaginary wars and battles Life on other planets Fiction Soldiers Fiction Space colonies Fiction Space warfare FictionLeckie, Ann.
Summary: "What if you once had thousands of bodies and near god-like technology at your disposal? And what if all of it were ripped away? The Lord of the Radch has given Breq command of the ship Mercy of Kalr and sent her to the only place she would have agreed to go -- to Athoek Station, where Lieutenant Awn's sister works in Horticulture. Athoek was annexed some six hundred years ago, and by now...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2014
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Summary: "Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett). In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Cutting-edge technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transportation--including starships--virtually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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Summary: "Return to the greatest contest in the galaxy in the sequel to the hilarious USA TODAY bestseller Space Opera from New York Times bestselling author and finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Ursula K. Le Guin awards.The Metagalactic Grand Prix-part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past returns and the fate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC VALZahn, Timothy
Summary: When a mysterious enemy strikes at the very foundation of the Ascendancy by widening the rifts between the Nine Ruling Families and Forty Great Houses, Thrawn and his allies must decide what matters most--the security of their family or the survival of the Ascendancy itself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZAHRobinson, Kim Stanley
Summary: "Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as a new home world for those on board. But the journey has brought unexpected changes and their best laid plans may not be enough to survive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SCI.FIC ROBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Robinson 2015Weber, David
Summary: "Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is one of those rare people who likes rules but has a talent for thinking outside of them when everything starts coming apart. That is why he is now a mustang and also why he has enemies. At the moment, there are powerful forces in the young Star Kingdom's Parliament who don't think they need him or the navy for that matter. Unhappily for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBValente, Catherynne M.
Summary: "Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization. Something to cheer up everyone who was left. Something to celebrate having escaped total annihilation by the skin of one's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VALBear, Greg
Summary: "They came in peace, bearing gifts. The Gurus were a highly advanced species who brought amazingly useful and sophisticated technology to the human race. There was, of course, a catch. They warned of a far more malevolent life form, beings who have hounded the Gurus across the cosmos. The media have taken to calling them the Antagonists -- or Antags -- and they have already established a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAWolff, Tracy
Summary: The sun is dying. The Nine Planets' only hope of survival rests on a fancy space station and the alien artifact it's carrying. When some jackass that doesn't want the universe saved blows up that space station, seven strangers with deadly secrets escape in a stolen, busted-ass spaceship. Now every faction in the galaxy is hunting this ship, and apparently the only thing standing between a dying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOLRambo, Cat
Summary: "Farscape meets The Great British Bake Off in this fantastic space opera You Sexy Thing from former SFWA President, Cat Rambo. Just when they thought they were out... TwiceFar station is at the edge of the known universe, and that's just how Niko Larson, former Admiral in the Grand Military of the Hive Mind, likes it. Retired and finally free of the continual war of conquest, Niko and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAMBujold, Lois McMaster
Summary: "Three years after her famous husband's death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, Vicereine of Sergyar, stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Oliver Jole, Admiral, Sergyar Fleet, finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he'd never imagined. Meanwhile, Miles Vorkosigan, one of Emperor Gregor's key investigators, this time dispatches himself on a mission, into a mystery he never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUJCorey, James S. A.
Summary: "The fifth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel! A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORWeber, David
Summary: "Growing up, Travis Uriah Long yearned for order and discipline in his life...two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't provide. So when Travis enlists in the Royal Manticoran Navy, he thought he'd finally found the structure he'd always wanted so desperately. But life in the RMN isn't exactly as expected. Boot camp is rough; his first ship assignment lax and disorderly; and with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBCastro, V.
Summary: When a peaceful settlement on a moon in the furthest reaches of the universe finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius, Kora (Sofia Boutella), a mysterious stranger living among the villagers, becomes their best hope for survival. Tasked with finding trained fighters who will unite with her in making an impossible stand against the Mother World, Kora assembles a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC CASMcDonald, Ian
Summary: "The Moon wants to kill you. Whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or you just get caught up in a fight between the Moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the Moon's near feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon's newest "dragon," Adriana has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDCorey, James S. A.
Summary: Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to end the endless slaughter is the Livesuit forces. Soldiers meld their bodies to the bleeding edge technology, becoming something more than human for the duration of a war that might never end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC CORWong, Khan
Summary: Hunted by those who want to study his gravity powers, Jes makes his way to the best place for a mixed-species fugitive to blend in: the pleasure moon Persephone-9. Here, everyone just wants to be lost in the party. Jes lands a circus job, but when catches the attention of Niko, the crime boss who owns the resort-casino, he must do anything and everything asked of him, or face vivisection....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Angry Robot 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WONSpaizZzer
Summary: Being reborn as a tree wasn't first on Matt's wishlist. It's not all bad though. For he's not just any tree, but an overpowered one in a fantasy world that serves as the battlefield for an ongoing conflict between demons and the heroes summoned to oppose them. Matt can be a great tool against the evil forces. TreeTree (as Matt comes to be known) will learn all manner of skills, gain levels and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SPAWeber, David
Summary: "Yesterday, the Star Kingdom of Manticore was a small, unimportant interstellar backwater. A quiet little star nation, only recently recovered from the devastating blow of the Plague Years. More affluent than some, perhaps, but with little to attract trade or interstellar commerce, it had little need for a navy... and even less interest in paying for one. But Manticore has now become a target....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEBGunn, 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 GUNBujold, Lois McMaster.
Summary: "Book Fourteen in the best-selling Vorkosigan series. Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUJHerbert, Brian.
Summary: "The sequel to Sisterhood of Dune...The thinking machines have been defeated but the struggle for humanity's future continues. Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF HerbertCorey, James S. A.
Summary: The Carryx--part empire, part hive--are facing their greatest enemy yet. To survive, they capture and decimate a human colony, forcing their best and brightest in a competition to beat their foe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "The Divide. It's the edge of the universe. Now it's collapsing -- and taking everyone and everything with it. The only ones who can stop it are the Sentinels -- the recruits, exiles, and court-martialed dregs of the military. At the Divide, Adequin Rake, commanding the Argus, has no resources, no comms -- nothing, except for the soldiers that no one wanted. Her ace in the hole could be Cavalon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book