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61) Ender in exile
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Series
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English
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At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
62) Transcendental
Author
Series
[Transcendental trilogy] volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"Riley, a veteran of interstellar war, is one of many beings from many different worlds aboard a ship on a pilgrimage that spans the galaxy. However, he is not journeying to achieve transcendence, a vague mystical concept that has drawn everyone else on the ship to this journey into the unknown at the far edge of the galaxy. His mission is to find and kill the prophet who is reputed to help others transcend. While their ship speeds through space,...
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Series
Bobiverse volume 4
Publisher
Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates. Now Bob is determined to organize an expedition to learn Bender's fate - whatever the cost. But nothing is ever simple in the Bobiverse. Bob's descendants are out to the 24th generation now, and replicative drift has produced individuals who can barely be considered Bobs anymore....
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Wayfarers volume 3
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English
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Return to the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, as humans, artificial intelligence, aliens, and some beings yet undiscovered explore what it means to be a community in this exciting third adventure in the acclaimed and multi-award-nominated science fiction Wayfarers series, brimming with heartwarming characters and dazzling space adventure. Hundreds of years ago, the last humans on Earth boarded the Exodus Fleet in search of a new home among...
65) All these worlds
Author
Series
Bobiverse volume 3
Publisher
Worldbuilders Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can't stay out of trouble. They've created enough colonies so humanity shouldn't go extinct. But political squabbles have a bad habit of dying hard, and the Brazilian probes are still trying to take out the competition. And the Bobs have picked a fight with an older, more powerful species with a large appetite...
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English
Description
"The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury--a collection of tales that breathe and move, animated by sharp, intaken breath and flexing muscle. Here are eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin--visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful:...
Author
Series
[Saucer novels] volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
After 140,000 Years... Seismic Surveyor Rip Cantrell has made an exhilarating discovery-a flying saucer embedded in the Sahara sandstone. Buried for eons, it's not the invention of modern man. Computer-equipped, it can't belong to ancient man. Rip's betting his life on the only alternative. If the ship's memory bank holds the proof he needs, it's going to rock civilization, and make Rip a very famous man. Its Time Has Come. Once the secret's out,...
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Series
Take them to the stars volume 2
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Sylvain Neuvel weaves a scfi thriller reminiscent of Blake Crouch and Andy Weir in Until the Last of Me, blending a fast moving, darkly satirical look at the 1960s space race with an exploration of the amorality of progress and the nature of violence. The First Rule is the most important: "Always run, never fight." Over 100 generations, Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to push humanity to the stars,...
69) Dead silence
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
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. What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire...
70) Ocean's echo
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone space adventure about a bond that will change the fate of worlds, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell's hit debut, Winter's Orbit. Rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster Tennalhin Halkana can read minds. Tennal, like all neuromodified "readers," is a security threat on his own. But when controlled, readers are a rare asset. Not only can they read minds, but they can navigate chaotic space, the...
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The heart-rending story of Laika, the brave canine space traveller. By two of the co-creators of the acclaimed children's book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea: the moving and beautifully told story of Laika, the dog who learned the names of the stars. Laika is an orphaned stray dog who lives in the streets of Moscow in the 1950s in the then Soviet Union. Although she is loved by her pack, Laika longs to one day learn the names of...
Author
Publisher
Little Libros LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
¡Presénteles a sus pequeños a la primera niña astronauta, Luz Lucero, en inglés y español! Noticia de última hora: ¡el viaje espacial de los niños se dirige hacia ti! Luz Lucero ha ganado el concurso de su vida: romper barreras y convertirse en la primera niña en el espacio. Para prepararse para su legendaria misión, probará deliciosas comidas de astronautas, practicará su caminata espacial y aprenderá nuevos idiomas. Sin darte cuenta,...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Michael Flynn has written the best SF in the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein of the last decade. His major work was the Firestar sequence, a four-book future history. "As Robert A. Heinlein did and all too few have done since, Michael Flynn writes about the near future as if he'd been there and was bringing back reports of what he'd seen," said Harry Turtledove. Now, in this sweeping standalone epic of the spaceways, Flynn grows again in stature,...
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Series
Publisher
Ediciones B, S.A., para el sello B de Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Ender en el exilio ocurre unos 400 años después de lo narrado en El juego de Ender y unos 2650 antes de La voz de los muertos, y enlaza también con la serie posterior de La Sombra de Ender, gracias a un uso inteligente de los efectos relativistas. Ender Wiggin, tras vencer a los insectores y dejar la Escuela de Batalla, parte a la búsqueda del planeta en el que se habían reunido las reinas colmena de los insectores para intentar entender por...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Juventud
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Hace mucho tiempo un ratón aprendió a volar..., y cruzó el Atlántico. Pero, ¿qué pasó luego? El nuevo libro de Torben Kuhlmann transporta a los lectores a la Luna. Siguiendo los pasos de Lindbergh: la increíble aventura de un ratón volador, Kuhlmann nos vuelve a deleitar con Armstrong: el increíble viaje de un ratón a la Luna. En este libro los sueños están determinados solo por la capacidad de imaginación, y las mayores innovaciones...
77) Space adventure
Author
Publisher
What on Earth Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Join Ava and her cat as she pilots their rocket into space. Peek through holes in the pages as you travel to the Space Station and all the planets in the Solar System. Uh oh! It's a pop-up supernova explosion! Will Ava make it back in time for supper?
78) Permanence
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown dwarf stars -- is running from her bullying brother, who has threatened to sell her into slavery. Fleeing in a shuttle spacecraft from the sparsely populated and austere comet-mining habitat she has lived in her whole life, she spots a distant, approaching object, and stakes a legal claim to it. It is not the valuable comet she hoped for but something even more wonderful,...
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