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"Behind every man now alive stand 30 ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living. Roughly 100 billion human beings have walked the planet Earth. Amazing that there are appromimately 100 billion stars in our local universe, the Milky Way." --
2) Spin
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Captain Chase ; 2
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"In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between...
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Voyagers ; 3
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An alien is unleashed in the final novel of the first contact Voyagers trilogy from the New York Times–bestselling author of Mars.
Dr. Keith Stoner—former astronaut and astrophysicist—has been awake for the last fifteen years, after being held in suspended animation since first contact with an alien starship.
Now Keith is married to Jo Camerata, the head of Vanguard Industries, which
4) Voyagers
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Voyagers ; 1
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Ex-astronaut Dr. Keith Stoner reveals that an extraterrestrial spacecraft is heading for Earth, and he fights for a place in the frantic efforts of the Americans, the Russians, and others in preparing for the initial contact with these "voyagers."
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Voyagers ; 2
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The six-time Hugo Award–winning author of Voyagers continues his first contact trilogy with a novel of an alien takeover of the mind.
Keith Stoner has been in a state of suspended animation for eighteen years, ever since he was an American member of a joint US-Soviet venture to capture an alien ship. But when the Soviets had to pull out, Stoner willfully persisted and it was then, during that time on the ship, that
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"Octavia Zarola would do anything to keep her tiny, close-knit bounty hunting crew together--even if it means accepting a job from Torran Fletcher, a ruthless former general and her sworn enemy. When Torran offers her enough credits to not only keep her crew afloat but also hire someone to fix her ship, Tavi knows that she can't refuse--no matter how much she'd like to"--
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2022.
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"Refugee, criminal, and linguist Sean Wren is made an offer he knows he can't refuse: life in prison, 'voluntary' military service--or salvaging data in a long-dead language from an abandoned ship filled with traps and monsters, just days before it's destroyed in a supernova...In the bowels of the derelict ship, surrounded by horrors and dead men, Sean slowly uncovers the truth of what happened on the ship, in its final days and the terrible secret...
9) Neptune
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Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"In the outer settlements of the human-occupied solar system, there are rumors about what was found deep under Neptune's frozen seas when a Hungarian billionaire's ship was lost with all hands. But the rumors are far more tame than the reality. When the billionaire's daughter mounts a mission to find the truth, her discoveries will up-end humanity's understanding of our origins on Earth"--
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2022.
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"Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven's freighter the Jonah breaks down in a strange rift in deep space, with little chance of rescue--until they encounter the research vessel Gallion, which claims to be from 152 years in the future. The Gallion's chief engineer Uma Ozakka has always been fascinated with the past...When the Gallion rescues a run-down junk freighter, Ozakka is shocked to recognize...
11) Airlock
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Orca Book Publishers
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2023.
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English
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"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, nonbinary teen Brick must rescue the crew of the spaceship they snuck onto when it is taken over by pirates"--
13) Heavy time
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Warner Books
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[1991]
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English
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Two asteroid miners intercept signals from a derelict spacecraft and find clues to a secret that might change the fate of the world.
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Skybound Books
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"A visceral space thriller--perfect for fans of Arrival and The Martian--following the sole survivor of a catastrophic accident in space that leaves her drifting in the void with only the voice of her estranged husband, a NASA scientist, to guide her back to Earth"--
15) Ancestral night
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White Space ; 1
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"Elizabeth Bear won the John W. Campbell award for Best New Writer in 2005 and has since published 15 novels and numerous short stories. She writes in both the SF and fantasy genres and has won critical acclaim in both. She has won the Hugo award more than once. She lives in Massachusetts. Visit her on Twitter @matociquala"--
"Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is...
17) Wormhole
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Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Gordon Kemp is a detective working in the cold case department in London...he has been assigned a murder investigation closed, unsolved, over eighty years ago. What he unearths will change history and threatens everything we know about what the powers that be have planned for Earth. The tragedy that befell the ship eighty years before is not what it seems and the past and the present are radically different to what everyone on Earth believes"--
18) The deep sky
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2023.
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English
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"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind--except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation...
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Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Ness Brown's 'The Scourge Between Stars' is a tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls. "A perfect scare to swallow up in one sitting."--Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights. As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears'...
20) Saturn run
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"The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope--something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don't decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage...
