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81) The disasters
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Appears on list
Description
Nax and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots after the school is hijacked by terrorists, but in order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.
82) Singularity sky
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
In a world transformed by the Eschaton, a sentient artificial intelligence, the colony of New Republic, founded by people who wanted no part of the technological revolution, is threatened by an information plague of advanced technology.
Author
Series
Starbound trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Flynn, leader of the rebellion on Avon, captures Jubilee "Lee" Chase, captain of the forces sent to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but later saves her, and the two, caught between sides in a senseless war, flee together.
Author
Series
Indranan war volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to take her rightful place in the palace. Her sisters and parents have been murdered, and the Indranan Empire is reeling from both treasonous plots and foreign invasion. Now, on the run from enemies on all fronts, Hail prepares to fight a full-scale war for her throne and her people, even as she struggles with the immense weight of the legacy thrust upon her. With the aid of...
85) Freedom's choice
Author
Series
Freedom series (Anne McCaffrey) volume 2
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Human slaves who were forced to colonize a new planet find that the planet may not have been empty. The colonists hope that if another race exists, it will help in the fight for liberty.
86) Legacy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Description
Young Olmy Ap Sennon embarks on a mission to investigate illegal immigration on the Earth-like world of Lamarckia, a planet that the Hexamon--the ruling body of Axis City and the human race--had declared should be left untouched in case of future need.
Author
Series
Poseidon's children volume 1
Description
One-hundred-and-fifty years from now, the moon and Mars are settled, and colonies stretch all the way out to the edge of the solar system. But something has come to light on the Moon--secrets that could change everything--or tear this near utopia apart.
88) Artefact
Author
Series
Lazarus war volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Mankind has spread to the stars, only to become locked in warfare with an insidious alien race. All that stands against the alien menace are the soldiers of the Simulant Operation Programme, an elite military team remotely operating avatars in the most dangerous theatres of war. Captain Conrad Harris has died hundreds of times - running suicide missions in simulant bodies. Known as Lazarus, he is a man addicted to death. So when a secret research...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Description
A tale of dragons in the fantasy land of Pern and the boy who communicates with them by telepathy. He is Rob, a musical genius, and when he grows up he leads the dragons and their riders in battle against an evil man who denies people education.
90) Shades of Earth
Author
Series
Across the universe trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Amy hopes to reach her long-sought new home on Centauri-Earth, while she and Elder confront unexpected dangers that threaten their colony and challenge their views on what it means to be human.
91) Spaced out
Author
Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In 2041 twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is a resident of Moon Base Alpha, and at the moment he is faced with a number of problems: coping with the nasty Sjoberg twins, finding out how the commander of the base has managed to disappear from a facility no bigger than a soccer field, and dealing with the alien Zan who communicates with him telepathically from afar--and who is hiding a secret which may threaten the whole Earth.
92) Goliath
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists...
93) Ex-kop
Author
Series
KOP novels volume 2
Description
Desperate for money for his wife's medical bills, former police officer Juno agrees to help his ex-partner, Maggie Orzo, with a difficult case involving a death-row inmate whom Maggie suspects may be innocent, an investigation that is complicated by Maggie's violent new partner.
94) Glow
Author
Series
Sky chasers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Part of the first generation to be conceived in deep space, fifteen-year-old Waverly is expected to marry young and have children to populate a new planet, but a violent betrayal by the dogmatic leader of their sister ship could have devastating consequences.
95) The final six
Author
Series
Final six volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Surrounded by strangers all competing for one of the six slots to travel to Jupiter's moon, Europa, Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, finds a friend in Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, as the training tests their limits.
96) Lies, Inc
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Description
"Philip K. Dick knew better than anyone how to recognize the disturbances of exile."-Roberto BolañoWhen catastrophic overpopulation threatens Earth, one company offers to teleport citizens to Whale's Mouth, an allegedly pristine new home for happy and industrious émigrés. But there is one problem: the teleportation machine only works in one direction. When Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that some of the footage of happy settlers may have been...
97) Dragonseye
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
It's been two-hundred years since the deadly Thread fell like rain upon Pern, devouring everything in its path. No one alive remembers that first horrific onslaught and no one believes in its return--except for the dragonriders. For two centuries they have been practicing and training, passing down from generation to generation the formidable Threadfighting techniques. Now the ominous signs are appearing: the violent winter storms and volcanic eruptions...
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit intelligent technology. But by some miscalculation they have landed in another solar system and must shape the gas giant planet Harlequin's...
99) Generation ship
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world's best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they've sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren't responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It's a time when the entire crew should be coming...
100) The Last Colony
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Serving his human colony on distant Huckleberry as a village ombudsman, retired fighter John Perry looks forward to settling into farm life with his wife and adopted daughter before he is drawn back into the dangerous interstellar politics of his past.