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1) Voyagers
Author
Series
Voyagers volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Ex-astronaut turned physicist Keith Stoner knows the signals picked up at his space station are not random. The message is heading straight for Earth, and Stoner will do anything to be the first man to confront the enigma, even if he loses his only love.
Author
Series
Voyagers volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Keith Stoner awoke, he found himself in a world changed almost beyond recognition. Eighteen years before, Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship. The Soviets had to pull out, but Stoner persisted, and while on the strange ship, he fell into animation. Jo Camerata, the ambitious young student who fell in love with Stoner, is now head of Vanguard Industries, which has recovered the alien ship....
4) Orion
Author
Series
[Orion series] volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
John O'Ryan is not a god...not exactly. He is an eternal warrior destined to combat the Dark Lord through all time for dominion of the Earth. Follow him, servant of a great race, as he battles his enemy down the halls of time, from the caves of our ancestors to the final confrontation under the hammer of nuclear annihilation.
5) Moonrise
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A novel on the technological advances and corporate intrigues--including murder--of Masterson Aerospace. The company operates a moon base and is one of the beneficiaries of the privatization of space by the U.S. government.
6) Venus
Author
Series
[Grand tour series] volume 19
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of sulfuric acid. The atmosphere is a choking mixture of carbon dioxide and poisonous gases. This is where Van Humphries must go. Or die trying. His older brother perished in the first attempt to land a man...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left--the company he founded, Astro Manufacturing. Martin Humphries, fabulously wealthy heir of the Humphries Trust, also knows that space-based...
8) Mars
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1992.
Language
English
Description
Geologist Jamie Waterman is a last-minute replacement on the first international Mars landing team. He endures training rigors, personality conflicts, political intrigues, and over 100 million kilometers travel in space. The crew battle an alien landscape and earthbound bureaucrats. Heading toward a chasm over 10 times the Arizona Grand Canyon, they make a shocking find.
9) Jupiter
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Grant Archer merely wanted to study astrophysics, to work quietly as an astronomer on the far side of the moon. But the forces of the New Morality, the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run twenty-first-century America, have other plans for him."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Several years after his Jupiter ocean exploration team is rescued by a native creature in an act that proved the species' intelligence, physicist Grant Archer prepares for a new expedition that is threatened by both the hostile environment of the giant planet and sabotaging humans.
11) The green trap
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Investigating the murder of his microbiologist brother, Paul Cochrane follows the trail from California to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to investigate his brother's work on a process that could produce a limitless supply of free energy to power the world.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2013.
Language
English
Description
Art Thrasher is a man with a driving vision: send humans to Mars. The government has failed, but Thrasher has a plan: form a club of billionaires to chip in one billion a year until the dream is accomplished. The trouble is, these men and women are tough cookies, disdainful of those who want to use their cash to make somebody else's dreams come true. But Thrasher is different from the other dreamers in an important regard: he's a billionaire himself....
13) The rock rats
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Visionary Dan Randolph is dead, but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, sits on the board of his conglomerate. Randolph's rival Martin Humphries wants to control Astro and drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho, and flame Amanda, now wife to Lars. Many will die. Many will thrive.
Author
Series
[Orion series] volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Orion will battle the gods themselves to see that Arthur fulfills his destiny. But can even he save Arthur from the tragedy that awaits him?
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