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Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the men and women who drove the Voyager spacecraft mission--told by a scientist who was there from the beginning. The Voyager spacecraft are our farthest-flung emissaries-11.3 billion miles away from the crew who built and still operate them, decades since their launch. Voyager 1 left the solar system in 2012; its sister craft, Voyager 2, will do so in 2015. The fantastic journey began in 1977, before the first episode of Cosmos aired....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs.
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe Haldeman's Vietnam War parable epic war story spanning relativistic space and time, The Forever War explores one soldier's experience as he is caught up in the brutal machinery of a war against an unknown and unknowable alien foe that reaches across the stars" --
6) Dune
Author
Language
English
Description
This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...
Author
Series
Sentinels of the galaxy volume Book 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'The answer is no, Lyra,' my mother utters her--I swear--phrase.No means I have to travel with them to another planet--again.No means leaving all my friends fifty years in the past. Thanks, Einstein.Seventeen-year-old Lyra Daniels can't truly blame Einstein or her parents for their impending move across the Milky Way Galaxy. It's all due to the invention of the Q-net, which made traveling the vast distances in space possible--with one big caveat:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"We've all asked ourselves the question. Looking up at the night sky, it's almost impossible NOT to wonder: Are we alone in the universe? In [this book], Space.com senior writer Dr. Michael Wall treats that question as merely a jumping-off point. He considers, for instance, the myriad of questions that would arise once we do discover life beyond Earth (an eventuality which, top NASA officials told Dr. Wall, is only drawing closer). From the unexpected--do...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ruby, a Black girl who loves studying insects, accidentally captures an alien bug, but when the creature escapes and starts wreaking havoc around the neighborhood, it is up to Ruby and her rag-tag group of friends to find this new invasive species before the feds do.
11) The first 7
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Clover Martinez and the Last Teenagers on Earth are exploring the galaxy after leaving Earth behind, even if they are homesick. When their ship receives a distress signal from their former home, they arrive to find strange crystal formations are taking over Earth's soil and threatening to destroy the planet. They discover a colony of survivors in the mountains, but relief gives way to panic as the teenagers realize these survivors aren't who they...
12) Coming home
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
563 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Generations ago, Convoy Seven and the AI known as I.C.C. left Earth on a mission that would take them far beyond our solar system. Launched by the Planet United Consortium, a global group formed to pursue cooperative Earth-wide interests in deep space, nine ships headed into the unknown to explore a distant star called LQ Pyx. Eons later, the convoy has returned to LQ Pyx to begin work on the Web, the alien megastructure that covers the star. Is it...
14) Old man's war
Author
Publisher
Tor
Language
English
Description
Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that the conflict involves much more than he understands.
15) Bright star
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
54 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a visiting the library to search for new adventure ideas, Miguel and Clarke go on a trip that is out of this world.
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A volume explaining inventor Philip Lubin's plan to create space probes that use the power of laser beams to push the probe out of the solar system at around one-third the speed of light"--
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"After years of skilled work and dedication, Trisha Donahue is denied a well-earned promotion by her company's male executives, who give it instead to an underqualified man. Devastated, forty-four-year-old Trisha begins to reckon with the demands that exhaust her, the injustices that confront her, and the ways she has betrayed herself "just to fit in" with coworkers who resent and belittle her abilities. But at the Rose & Emerald - a unique rural...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 344 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A survey of the history and future of human exploration, replete with fun facts about the results of cultural exchanges and the discovery of new frontiers"--
19) Double share
Author
Series
Publisher
Ridan Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
316 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In his first assignment as an officer, Ishmael Horatio Wang finds himself fresh out of school, wet behind the ears, and way out of his depth. Aboard the William Tinker the senior officers are derelict and abusive, the crew demoralized and undisciplined, and change unwelcomed and dangerous. Can Ishmael use what he learned aboard the Lois McKendrick to help the crew find the ship's heart? Or will he discover that bucking the system may come at too high...
Author
Publisher
Inner Traditions
Pub. Date
©2012
Physical Desc
355 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Scientific confirmation of advanced civilization at the end of the last ice age, the solar catastrophe that destroyed it, and what the evidence means for our future"--Provided by publisher.
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