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1) Defiant
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Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 4
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English
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Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she is willing to go for victory.
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Rama series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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An enigmatic spacecraft appears in the solar system, puzzling astronomers.
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Stainless Steel Rat volume 3
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English
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In this epic science fiction tale by an award-winning author, two warring tribes are the subjects of a strange alien experiment.
Epic in scope, peopled by characters from every strata of profoundly different societies, An Alien Light is an unflinching look at the strengths and weaknesses of the genetic, evolutionary, and historical inheritance that all of us share.
Arys, a glassblower and outcast.
Jehane, a skilled female warrior.
Dahar,...
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Seafort saga volume 4
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Nick Seafort returned to Earth expecting a court martial but instead he's tapped by the Naval Academy. This is no ordinary desk job... Luck has always run in both directions for Naval Commandant Nicholas Seafort. While he has managed to save the Hope Nation colony from alien attack, he and his friends have paid a heavy price. Most recently, his exploits have earned him a dignified position as an instructor at the United Nations Naval Academy. But,...
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Murderbot diaries volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...
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Dayworld novels volume 2
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English
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A daybreaker rebels on an overpopulated planet in this dystopian adventure by the author of the World of Tiers series. Jeff Caird was once a daybreaker: a criminal who avoided government-required suspended animation by living seven different identities. Now he goes by the name William St.-George Duncan, and he's suppressed the memory of his past, and even his real identity, in order to avoid harsh punishment by the government of the Organic Commonwealth...
9) Genesis
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Anaximander, a student historian applying for entrance to the Academy, the institution that governs the Republic, a closed and isolated island society established late in the twenty-first century as a refuge from worldwide plague, prepares a thesis on Adam Forde, a rebel who on one occasion refused to shoot a young woman approaching the island in a boat, and unwittingly reveals her own tendencies for unconventional thought.
10) Mother of storms
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In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane accidentally triggered by nuclear explosions spawns dozens more in its wake.
A world linked by a virtual-reality network experiences the devastation first hand, witnessing the death of civilization as we know it and the violent birth of an emerging global consciousness.
Vast in scope, yet intimate in personal detail, Mother of Storms is a visionary fusion of cutting-edge cyberspace fiction and heart-stopping...
11) A choice of gods
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A handful of humans and a multitude of robots create a new society on a mysteriously abandoned Earth in this breathtaking science fiction classic from one of the genre's acknowledged masters. What if you woke up one morning on Earth... and no one else was there? That is the reality that greeted a handful of humans, including Jason Whitney, his wife Martha, and the remnants of a tribe of Native Americans in the year 2135. Their inexplicable abandonment...
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Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.
The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which is the title story, "Gold," a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a...
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A knowledge-hungry young man sets out on a quest to locate a legendary spaceport in a far-future society that has reverted to primitive tribalism More than a thousand years have passed since humankind intentionally destroyed its treacherous technology, choosing to revert back to a primitive tribal state. In this society the rusting brain cases of long-inert robots are considered trophies, and the scant knowledge that has survived is doled out to an...
15) The Phoenix code
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"When robotics expert Megan O'Flannery is offered the chance to direct MindSim's cutting-edge program to develop a self-aware android, it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project is trouble-plagued: the third prototype 'killed' itself, and the RS-4 is unstable. Megan will descend into MindSim's underground research lab in the Nevada desert, where she will be the sole human in contact with the TS-4, dubbed Aris." -- Back cover.
16) At winter's end
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On a devastated Earth millions of years in the future, a handful of humans emerge from cocoons only to face an unfamiliar world inhabited by hostile insect-like creatures intent on planet domination.
17) Bunker 10
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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Something is going terribly wrong at the top secret Pinewood Military Installation, and the teenage geniuses who study and work there are about to discover a horrible truth as they lead a small military force trying to retrieve data and escape before the compound self-destructs.
18) The stone gods
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This novel explores three different end-of-the-world scenarios, allowing Winterson to explore the repetitive nature of human history and an inability of people to learn from previous mistakes. In the first section, inhabitants of the pollution-choked planet Orbus have discovered Planet Blue (Earth), and soon set about launching an asteroid at it to kill the dinosaurs that would prevent them from colonizing the planet. The second and third sections...
19) Tek secret
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TekWar volume 5
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English
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While searching for a missing heiress, Jake Cardigan uncovers a stunning conspiracy in the action-filled conclusion to the TekWar series Barry Zangerly's friends told him to stay away from Alicia Bower. The heir to the Mechanix International robotics fortune, she is beautiful, unstable, and too charming to resist. When she vanishes, Zangerly combs Greater Los Angeles for his damaged beauty, a hunt that finally leads him to an abandoned warehouse,...
20) TekLords
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TekWar volume 2
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English
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When anybody can be an assassin, a detective with many enemies can only trust one person: himself Jake Cardigan has just returned from Mexico, where he fell in love, nearly died, and broke up the infamous Hokori cartel. But the drug kingpins whose fortunes rest on pushing Tek are still trying to do away with this devilish private eye. During a routine trip to the mall, a well-dressed man tries to stab Cardigan through the heart. After a quick scuffle,...
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