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1) Dragonflight
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 1
Language
English
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Less must ride her dragon and save her planet from the Thread that threatens to kill them all.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens the entire human race.
During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira Navárez finds an alien relic. At first delighted, her elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a...
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Series
Chaos walking volume 1
Language
English
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Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
Author
Series
Chaos walking volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
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Series
Chaos walking volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known.
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English
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"The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets. Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at...
7) Dove arising
Author
Series
Dove chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"On a lunar colony, fifteen-year-old Phaet Theta does the unthinkable and joins the Militia when her mother is imprisoned by the Moon's oppressive government"--
9) Angelmass
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English
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Jereko Kostas is sent from Earth to the Empyrean planet of Seraph to investigate the mysterious "angels" that are being emitted by a black hole. The "angels" make people reaonable, calm and truthful and are rumored to be at the center of an alien plot to take over humanity.
10) Shades of Earth
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Series
Language
English
Description
When young lovers Amy and Elder and the other passengers of the spaceship Godspeed finally land on Centauri-Earth and start to colonize the new world, they encounter pterodactyl-like monsters and the threat of unseen aliens.
11) Pathfinder
Author
Series
Pathfinder volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Rigg has a secret ability to see the paths of others' pasts, but revelations after his father's death set him on a dangerous quest.
12) Ruins
Author
Series
Pathfinder volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
To prevent the destruction of his planet, teenaged Rigg Sessamekesh, who can manipulate time, must assume more responsibility when he and others travel back 11,000 years to the arrival of human starships.
13) Worlds apart
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English
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Wars on Earth have shattered civilization and threaten to exterminate humanity, but half a million people still survive on the Worlds, a complex of satellite colonies. Marianne O'Hara of New New York must choose between helping the remaining "groundhogs" on earth and preparing for a mass flight to another star system.
16) The last colony
Author
Series
Old man's war volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Serving his human colony on distant Huckleberry as a village ombudsman, retired fighter John Perry looks forward to settling into farm life with his wife and adopted daughter before he is drawn back into the dangerous interstellar politics of his past.
17) Old man's war
Author
Series
Old man's war volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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In the future, the elite space force is made up of experienced, post-retirement soldiers. John Perry joins this army on his seventy-fifth birthday with the hopes of gaining a homestead on an alien planet. But nothing has prepared him for the wild ride ahead.
18) Dragon Harper
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Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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As a deadly epidemic sweeps across the land of Pern, only Kindan, a young apprentice to the guild of musicians and teachers known as the Harpers, recognizes the imminent peril and must come up with a way to stop the illness from spreading.
19) Dragon's fire
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English
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When a mine containing firestone, the mineral that gives the dragons of Pern their ability to breathe fire, explodes, killing the miners trapped there, young Cristov volunteers to take over the dangerous task of retrieving the explosive rock for the dragons.
20) Dragon's time
Author
Series
Dragonriders of Pern volume 23
Language
English
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Description
Weyrwoman Fiona struggles to keep her surviving Weyr in fighting shape while Lorana plans a complicated time-travel journey to save their world.
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