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"Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species. World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores...
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Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 5
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"The bad news? The world is ending. The good news? The Bad Guys are back to save it! Sure, they might have to 'borrow"'a rocket. And there might be something nasty in one of the spacesuits. And Mr. Piranha miiiight have eaten too many bean burritos. Surviving this mission may only be one small step for man, but it's one giant leap for the Bad Guys."--back cover.
3) Chaos vector
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The Protectorate volume 2
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"Dazzling space battles, intergalactic politics, and rogue AI collide in the second book in this epic space opera by award-winning author Megan O'Keefe. Sanda and Tomas are fleeing for their lives after letting the most dangerous smartship in the universe run free. Now, unsure of who to trust, Sanda knows only one thing for certain - to be able to save herself from becoming a pawn of greater powers, she needs to discover the secret of the coordinates...
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Divide (Dewes) volume 2
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"The Sentinels narrowly escaped the collapsing edge of the Divide. They have mustered a few other surviving Sentinels, but with no engines, they have no way to leave the edge of the universe before they starve. Adequin Rake has gathered a team to find the materials they'll need to get everyone out. To do that they're going to need new allies and evade a ruthless enemy. Some of them will not survive"--Provided by publisher.
6) Ad astra
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"When a mysterious life-threatening event strikes Earth, astronaut Roy McBride goes on a dangerous mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the turth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe." --container
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Divide (Dewes) volume 1
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"The Divide. It's the edge of the universe. Now it's collapsing-and taking everyone and everything with it. At the Divide, Adequin Rake commands the Argus. She has no resources, no comms-nothing, except for the soldiers that no one wanted. Her ace in the hole could be Cavalon Mercer--genius, asshole, and exiled prince who nuked his grandfather's genetic facility for "reasons." She knows they're humanity's last chance."--back cover.
8) Braking day
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"An engineer-in-training on a generation ship that escaped an inhospitable Earth sees a young woman floating out in space without a helmet and must decide to ignore it and secure his family's place among the elite or uncover the truth"--Provided by publisher.
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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1
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"Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers...
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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 2
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"Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who’s determined to help her learn and grow. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it...
11) Babylon's ashes
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Expanse volume 6
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"The sixth novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now a major television series from Syfy! A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien...
13) Leviathan wakes
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Expanse volume 1
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"Humanity has colonized the solar system--Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond--but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, 'The Scopuli,' they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for--and kill on a scale unfathomable to...
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Doctor Who, travels with his intergalactic sidekick, Romana, while they comb the universe for the six segments of the powerful Key to Time.
The Ribos Operation: Doctor Who and Romana trace the first segment of the Key to Time to a faraway planet plagued with ignorance, con artists, spies and interminably long winters.
The Pirate Planet: The search for the Key's second segment is written by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Douglas Adams, and...
15) Leviathan Falls
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Expanse volume 9
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"The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight...
16) The outside
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The outside volume 1
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Humanity's super-intelligent AI gods brutally punish breaches in reality, as one young scientist discovers, in this intense and brilliant space opera. Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when she activates it, reality warps, destroying the space station and everyone aboard. The AI gods who rule the galaxy declare her work heretical, and Yasira is abducted by their agents....
17) Illuminae
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Illuminae files volume 1
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"The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all"--Provided by publisher.
18) Space oddity
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Space opera (Catherynne M. Valente) volume 2
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"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 of the Earth is once again threatened. The civilizations opposed to humanity have been plotting and want to take down the upstarts. Can humanity rise again in this sequel to the beloved Hugo Award-nominated national bestselling Space Opera?"--Provided by publisher.
19) Interstellar
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With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history: traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
20) Jack blasts off!
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"Hi, Jack! Jack is a good guy, but he can also be bad. In this book: Jack and Rex go to space. They eat lots of stuff. Jack plants his flag on a moon." --back cover
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