Helen Plum Library

"Hundreds of years ago, the last humans on Earth boarded the Exodus Fleet in search of a new home among the stars. After centuries spent wandering empty space, their descendants were eventually accepted by the well-established species that govern the Milky Way. But that was long ago. Today, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, the birthplace of many, yet a place few outsiders have ever visited. While the Exodans take great pride in their original community...

Tara and Gahan are each Barsoomian royalty, residing in two prominent cities, Helium, and Gathol. Hoping to align the cities and enjoy the advantages of a romantic union, Gahan wishes to marry Tara. However, Tara does not reciprocate this love. After rejecting the engagement, Tara sets out in her flying ship. When she flies into a turbulent storm, Tara crashes her ship in an unknown territory. Unharmed but still in danger, Tara is forced to run from...

When John Carter discovers that his beloved wife, Dejah, has been imprisoned in the Temple of the Sun, he is desperate to rescue her. However, the prison, which slowly rotates, is only opened once a Barsoomian year. As Dejah's prison sentence drags on for over a hundred days, the window of opportunity is narrowing for Carter to save her. Amid social and political unrest from the last war, the Thern had appointed a new leader, but many still believed...

Sometimes she had walked for days at a time in that dream; she would wake to find food that she could not remember gathering. Somehow, pervasive, the dream voices had taken over; the whispering winds had been full of voices and even hands. She had fallen ill and lain for days sick and delirious, and had heard a voice which hardly seemed to be her own, saying that if she died the wind voices would care for Robin.

Outcasts of a society of physically perfect people, they couldn't stay and they couldn't go home again-yet there had to be some escape for them. Oddly enough, there was! A sci-fi masterpiece by master author F.L. Wallace!

"The Colors of Space" by Marion Zimmer Bradley is a captivating anthology that transports readers to a universe teeming with mystery and intrigue. The centerpiece story, "The Colors of Space," delves into the tensions between humans and the enigmatic Lhari race. Young Bart Steele becomes embroiled in a high-stakes adventure as he seeks the truth behind the Lhari's warp-drive technology, a secret that could shift the galaxy's power dynamics. Disguising...

Harpie Colcek is a newspaper reporter assigned to write an article about a mysterious blip that appears on NORAD's radar screen every Christmas Eve at 11:55 p.m. As he heads to interview a four-star general at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Harpie has no idea that what lies ahead is much more intriguing than what the radar techs call Santa's Ghost or Santa's Sleigh. After Harpie inadvertently discovers the landing site of a spaceship,...

These are the adventures of lovers traveling to numerous moons, advancing to travel spiritually to planets while being chased by flying dragons spitting fire. Both humans and dragons evolve as a large city is built. The end is a surprise leading to 12 Two. During the hundreds of years (a lifetime), families become extremely large. The evolution of all allows them to get along.

A strange people have appeared out of nowhere. Their speech is impossible to understand for most human beings; their agenda, they say, is to colonize the "right place". The interpreter Mika accompanies one of their ambassadors to the little moon Kiruna. Here, celestial bodies play havoc with sound, and reality may not be what it appears. (A sequel to SING) "Expertly crafted and features psychologically complex characters."-Locus At the Publisher's...

This stunning sequel to Who knew the storm whisks the characters from the previous book, loosely based on Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic novel for children, The Secret Garden, and their offspring, off on some new and quite surprising adventures. It is a rip-roaring romp through a wacky world of pseudo-sci-fi fantasy, combining classic works of literature with film, music and art; all of which are close to the author's heart. The protagonists...