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61) An alien light
Author
Publisher
Arbor House
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
T. Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
They have gathered now on Damien and are about to witness the last rising of a man-made nova. They are sixteen humans in a distant world about to be enveloped by an eruption of violence-horror and murder, oddly complemented by a bizarre, unforgiving love. But justice is not all that they're about to find. Judgment is coming, and the sixteen unsuspecting ones are on the threshold of the murdered star.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stories Rule Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
El conjunto interestelar que une los mundos se despierta para descubrir que tiene enemigos...
El Cuarto Imperio Carinad se extiende por cientos de mundos asentados y ciudades estelares, y miles de años luz. La gente y los datos del Imperio están unidos por una matriz de puertas que se pliega en el espacio y que está controlada por el Emperador y sus secuaces. Cuando el conjunto evoluciona hasta convertirse en una entidad
...Author
Series
Publisher
Salvador Bayarri
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Description
Nadir debe pasar una prueba para finalizar su entrenamiento como agente de inteligencia al servicio de Ahura Masda. La extraña misión le llevará por el espacio a la búsqueda de su padre y de las misteriosas esferas que son clave para el control del universo.
¿Qué mensaje ocultaba la Insignia en la ciudad flotante de Vikatee? ¿Cuál es la verdadera naturaleza de las esferas y del perverso
65) The Fire People
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
[...]"The first of the new meteors landed on the earth in November, 1940. It was discovered by a farmer in his field near Brookline, Massachusetts, shortly after daybreak on the morning of the 11th. Astronomically, the event was recorded by the observatory at Harvard as the sudden appearance of what apparently was a new star, increasing in the short space of a few hours from invisibility to a power beyond that of the first magnitude, and then as rapidly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The award-winning original teleplay that produced the most beloved episode of the classic Star Trek series—with an introductory essay by the author.
USS Enterprise Starfleet officers Capt. James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock escort a renegade criminal to a nearby planet for capital punishment, and they discover the remains of a city. This ancient civilization is inhabited by the alien Guardians of Forever, who are
67) Venus of shadows
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
The Venus Project calls upon the strongest and most courageous to create a prosperous world in the dismal wilderness of Venus. Those who demonstrate the skill and the passion to embark on this adventure must transform the barren planet in the midst of political and cultural unrest. When Risa and Benzi, children of Iris, one of the first people to partake in this project, find themselves in opposing forces on the battlefield, it is their love and perseverance...
68) Hunter's run
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Police, fugitive aliens, and a human murderer weave a web of shifting alliances as Ramón, a luckless prospector, enters the greatest manhunt the alien world of São Paulo has ever known. If he is to survive, Ramón must overcome inscrutable aliens and deadly predators, but his greatest enemy is himself. With every move in the desperate game, he struggles to outwit his enemies and solve the mystery of a murder he himself committed.--From publisher...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"After 35 years of living on the Moon, cranky old oxygen farmer Millennium Harrison has stumbled onto a hidden facility in the shadows of the Slayton Ridge Exclusion Zone with a radiation leak and a deadly secret. Mil's discovery leads to the death of a young astronaut, sabotage, murder, and cover-ups that may go all the way to the Chief Administrator of the space agency. Unfortunately, she happens to be Mil's estranged daughter, busy trying to secure...
70) Sun of suns
Author
Series
Virga ; 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In Karl Schroeder's sci-fi thriller, Hayden Griffin has come to the city of Rush with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for his parents' deaths.
It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous...
71) After the crown
Author
Series
Indranan War ; 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former gunrunner-turned-Empress Hail Bristol was dragged back to her home planet to fill her rightful position in the palace. With her sisters and parents murdered, the Indranan empire is on the brink of war. Hail must quickly make alliances with nearby worlds if she has any hope of surviving her rule. When peace talks turn violent and Hail realizes she's been betrayed, she must rely on her old gunrunning ways to get out of trouble. With help from...
72) The disasters
Author
Language
English
Description
Nax's one-way trip back to Earth is cut short after the school is hijacked by terrorists. Now he and a handful of other space Academy washouts are the only surviving pilots. In order to spread the truth about the attack, Nax and his fellow failures must execute a dangerous heist.--
73) Zenith
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author duo Sasha Alsberg and Lindsay Cummings comes the first book in The Androma Saga, an action-packed thrill ride of adventure, intrigue and steamy star-crossed romance
Known across the galaxy as the Bloody Baroness, Captain Androma Racella and her motley crew of space-bound privateers roam the Mirabel galaxy on the glass starship Marauder, taking what mercenary...
Known across the galaxy as the Bloody Baroness, Captain Androma Racella and her motley crew of space-bound privateers roam the Mirabel galaxy on the glass starship Marauder, taking what mercenary...
74) Metaplanetary
Author
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"The human race has extended itself into the far reaches of our solar system and, in doing so, has developed into something remarkable and diverse and perhaps transcendent. The inner system of the Met with its worlds connected by a vast living network of cables is supported by the repression and enslavement of humanity's progeny, nanotechnological artificial intelligences ... beings whom the tryant Ames has declared non-human."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The sequel to A Million Open Doors and Earth Made of Glass.
Special agent Giraut Leones, betrayed by his superior and closest friend, swore he would never work for the Office of Special Projects again, but now he must. A new movement on Earth seeks to use the recorded personalities of the dead as helpless virtual reality playthings, and to the worlds of the Thousand Cultures, where the reborn are accepted as normal citizens, it's a monstrous crime....
Author
Publisher
Next Chapter Circle
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Luego de que Garryn vuelve a su hogar a reclamar el trono, se ve invadido por sueños de un misterioso sistema estelar con un sol Amarillo.
Al consultar a un mentalista, Garryn descubre que no es el único con esos mismos sueños y se embarca en un viaje para comprender sus visiones.
Pronto la verdad detrás de los sueños revela un secreto que cambia la vida de Garryn y sacude el Imperio hasta sus cimientos.
Author
Series
Wayfarers ; 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit...
78) Phobos
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Lt. Mike Brogue is one of a kind: the only native Martian to be a commissioned officer. He's the military's poster boy for relieving political tensions between Mars Colony and Earth but, he wants nothing to do with it. Brogue is just a man trying to do his job as a tactical analyst and prefers to leave the politics to civilians and government subcommittees.
After he manages to save a top Terran official from an extremist plot, however, the only way...
79) Binti
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs. Knowledge comes at a cost, one that Binti is willing to pay, but her journey will not be easy. The world she seeks to enter...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
AN ENTIRE GALAXY WAS IN DANGER! Somewhere, somehow, the first moves had been made-there was a pattern beginning to emerge. Someone, or something, was on the way to wresting supreme power over all the planets currently controlled by Mankind-and the Interstellar Corps seemed helpless to meet this threat. No 'normal' man could hope to penetrate the vast conspiracy of it all. But... the Corps did have one man who wasn't normal, a man who possessed a very...
