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1) Saturn Run
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English
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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...
2) Dawn
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Xenogenesis series volume 1
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English
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"When Lilith Iyapo wakes from a deep sleep, she finds herself aboard a vast spaceship, haunted by confused memories of a nuclear war that ravaged the world. She discovers that she is being held by the Oankali, a seemingly benevolent alien race that intervened in the human race's extinction, rescuing the survivors from their ruined planet and placing them in a coma-like sleep for centuries. Now the restored Earth is ready for inhabitants, and the Oankali...
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English
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"If you could build a spaceship, what would its mission be? To fly to Mars? To travel between galaxies? Explore MAKE A SPACESHIP YOUR WAY! to imagine your own spaceship. Learn how to get inspired, problem-solve, and collaborate with other books in the SUPER SIMPLE DIY series to make your own castle, dinosaur, and more!"--Back cover
Author
Series
Lost fleet volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Black Jack" Geary orders the Alliance Fleet back to the Lakota Star System, where it had almost been destroyed by the Syndics, in a desperate gamble to stay one step ahead of the enemy
Author
Series
Press start! volume 5
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"King Viking decides to find another planet where he can carry out his evil plans without interference, and everyone in Animal Town is delighted; then an alien appeals to Super Rabbit Boy for help and he blasts off to once again confront his enemy--but his level one rocket may not be up to the task." --
6) Finder
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Series
Finder volume 1
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English
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"Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder.
His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss. He'll slip in, decode the ship's compromised AI security, and get out of town, Sword in hand.
Fergus locates both Gilger and the ship in the farthest corner of human-inhabited space, a backwater...
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Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Hitch a ride and climb aboard the starship "Stellosphere" and meet Miles Callisto, his loving family and his best buddy Merc, a robo-ostrich built for speed, friendship and fun! Tasked by the Tomorrowland Transit Authority with connecting the Interstellar Super Highway, Miles and his tech-savvy sister Loretta are ready for anything; including awesome alien encounters and earthshaking discoveries that celebrate the wonders of outer space
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Series
Lost fleet volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
To ward off an attack by the Syndics, Geary orders the fleet to the Sancere system where they engage in combat, which takes its toll on the officers and crew of the Alliance, prompting a mutiny that divides them
Author
Series
Lost fleet volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The Alliance has been fighting the Syndic for a century-and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is Captain John "Black Jack" Geary-a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized beyond belief. Now, he must live up to his own legend
10) Nightflyers
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Aliens meets Psycho with a chilling mystery set on a haunted spaceship in this illustrated edition of a classic novella, soon to be an original series on SYFY, by the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones. When a scientific expedition is launched to study a mysterious alien race, the only ship available is the Nightflyer, a fully autonomous vessel manned by a single human. But Captain Royd Eris remains locked away, interacting with his passengers...
11) Cakes in space
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"When ten-year-old Astra and her family move to a new planet, she must save the spaceship and its crew from man-eating cakes, aliens, and more"--
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Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2009
Language
English
Description
When the Imperial prison barge Purge breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But soon after a boarding party returns from a scavenging expedition, a horrific disease breaks out and takes the lives of all but a half-dozen survivors whose only option forces them to return to the Star Destroyer--and the soulless, unstoppable dead waiting...
13) Victorious
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Series
Lost fleet volume 6
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English
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Description
As war continues to rage between the Alliance and Syndicate Worlds, Captain "Black Jack" Geary is promoted to admiral--even though the ruling council fears he may stage a military coup. His new rank gives him the authority to negotiate with the Syndics, who have suffered tremendous losses and may finally be willing to end the war. But an even greater alien threat lurks on the far side of the Syndic occupied space
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Clem is a busy bird. He has a spaceship kit to assemble and if all goes well, he'll blast off! Shorty? He doesn't have much to do. Can I help? But Clem wants to do it all by himself. Until everything goes wrong. That's when Clem realizes that having Shorty around isn't so bad after all
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Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of the original space station by a rogue faction of the Typhon Pact, Miles O'Brien and Nog have led the Starfleet Corps of Engineers in designing and constructing a larger, more advanced starbase in the Bajoran system. Now, as familiar faces such as Benjamin Sisko, Kasidy Yates, Ezri Dax, Odo, and Quark arrive at the new station, Captain Ro Laren will host various heads of state at an impressive dedication ceremony. The dignitaries...
18) Dead silence
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-- made obsolete-- when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate....
19) Aetherbound
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English
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After escaping her abusive family's interstellar merchant ship, seventeen-year-old Pendt lands on a remote space station run by the Brannick twins, and together they make plans to thwart the destinies they never wanted
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