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Star Jumper

Author: Frank Asch
Published: 2006
book: 128 pages
ISBN:1553378873
ISBN:9781553378877
Publisher: Kids Can Pr
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

Determined to get far away from his evil little brother, Alex works to design a spaceship that will take him so far away from Earth that not even the NASA ...

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Rama II

Author: Arthur Charles Clarke
Published: 1990-11-01
book: 466 pages
ISBN:0553286587
ISBN:9780553286588
Publisher: Spectra
Subject: Fiction

In the sequel to "Rendezvous with Rama," a second Raman spacecraft is discovered approaching Earth in 2196, an event of potentially devastating consequences for ...

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Gravity Buster

Author: Frank Asch
Published: 2007-02-01
book: 143 pages
ISBN:1554530695
ISBN:9781554530694
Publisher: Kids Can Pr
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

Now that Alex Archer has created his latest cardboard invention, the Anti-Graviton, he and his co-pilot Zoe Breen plan on visiting Jupiter, but Alex's pesky ...

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Startide rising

Author: David Brin
Published: 1984-03-01
book: 462 pages
ISBN:055327418X
ISBN:9780553274189
Publisher: Spectra
Subject: Fiction

After crash-landing on an uncharted planet, the human and dolphin crew of a spaceship from Earth battle fleets of alien warships.

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Time Twister

Author: Frank Asch
Published: 2008-02-01
book: 144 pages
ISBN:1554532310
ISBN:9781554532315
Publisher: Kids Can Pr
Subject: Juvenile Fiction

When his co-pilot finds a glitch in his Star Jumper, Alex Archer invents a time machine to rectify the problem, and he, along with his little brother, embark on ...

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Trading in Danger

Author: Elizabeth Moon
Published: 2004-08-31
book: 357 pages
ISBN:0345447611
ISBN:9780345447616
Publisher: Del Rey
Subject: Fiction

Thrown out of the Space Academy in disgrace, Ky Vatta, the daughter of a leading interstellar trading dynasty, is given the chance to redeem herself by ...

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Command Decision

Author: Elizabeth Moon
Published: 2007
book: 384 pages
ISBN:0345498089
ISBN:9780345498083
Publisher: Del Rey
Subject: Fiction

"From the Hardcover edition."

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Infinity Beach

Author: Jack McDevitt
Published: 2001-01-18
book: 528 pages
ISBN:0061020052
ISBN:9780061020056
Publisher: Eos
Subject: Fiction

With nine other solar systems colonized, humans have not yet discovered other intelligent life forms, but when Dr. Kimberly Brandywine investigates the death of ...

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Nimisha's Ship

Author: Anne McCaffrey
Published: 2002-02
book: 271 pages
ISBN:0345457501
ISBN:9780345457509
Publisher: Del Rey
Subject: Fiction

While on a test flight in a new craft, spaceship designer Nimisha Rondymense is sucked into a wormhole.

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Star trek-the motion picture

Author: Gene Roddenberry
Published: 1979
book: 252 pages
ISBN:0671253247
ISBN:9780671253240
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Subject: Fiction

In order to prevent the earth from being destroyed by a deadly, luminescent cloud from deep space, Starfleet refits the U.S.S. Enterprise and brings together ...

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Broken angels

Author: Richard K. Morgan
Published: 2004-03-02
book: 366 pages
ISBN:0345457714
ISBN:9780345457714
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Subject: Fiction

Serving as a mercenary in a distasteful war, Takeshi Kovacs joins a covert team that aims to secure a coveted archeological prize, an endeavor that ensnares him ...

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Building Harlequin's Moon

Author: Larry Niven
Published: 2006-04-15
book: 512 pages
ISBN:0765351293
ISBN:9780765351296
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Subject: Fiction

When the terraforming crew of the interstellar starship John Glenn accidentally lands on the giant gas planet of Harlequin, they are forced to shape a nearby ...

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The Silver Ship and the Sea

Author: Brenda Cooper
Published: 2008-07-01
book: 400 pages
ISBN:0765355094
ISBN:9780765355096
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Subject: Fiction

The first book in a three-part series, Cooper, the co-author of "Building Harlequin's Moon," delivers a new character-driven science fiction saga of six ...

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Area 51

Author: Robert Doherty
Published: 2009
book: 384 pages
ISBN:0307567133
ISBN:9780307567130
Publisher: Dell
Subject: Fiction

Dr. Hans Von Seeckt, an original member of a 1940 government research team studying nine unidentified craft in the Antarctic, fears that the technology of the ...

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Chaos and Order

Author: Stephen R. Donaldson
Published: 1995-06-01
book: 684 pages
ISBN:0553572539
ISBN:9780553572537
Publisher: Spectra
Subject: Fiction

As the planetoid Thanatos Minor explodes into oblivion, a handful of fugitives--Morn Hyland, her son Davies, Nick Succorso, and cyborg Angus Thermopyle--escape ...

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The Killing of Worlds

Author: Scott Westerfeld
Published: 2008-09-30
book: 336 pages
ISBN:0765320525
ISBN:9780765320520
Publisher: Tor Books
Subject: Fiction

In this powerful conclusion to the first story arc of Succession--which began in "The Risen Empire"--Captain Laurent Zai, unjustly held responsible for the ...

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Furious Gulf

Author: Gregory Benford
Published: 2005-02-01
book: 448 pages
ISBN:0446611530
ISBN:9780446611534
Publisher: Warner Aspect
Subject: Fiction

Escaping from the genocidal mech forces of their home world, the last survivors of Snowglade, under the command of Captain Killeen, journey toward the Galactic ...

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The Lost Fleet

Author: Jack Campbell
Published: 2006-06-27
book: 293 pages
ISBN:0441014186
ISBN:9780441014187
Publisher: null
Subject: Fiction

In this fourth installment, Black Jack Geary has ordered his fleet back to the Lakota Star System, where the Syndics nearly destroyed them.

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The Wizard of Karres

Author: Mercedes Lackey
Published: 2004-08-03
book: 320 pages
ISBN:0743488393
ISBN:9780743488396
Publisher: Baen Books
Subject: Fiction

After eliminating the Worm World threat and outwitting a deadly gang of space pirates, Captain Pausert embarks on a mission for the Empress Haile to stop a ...

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Dust

Author: Elizabeth Bear
Published: 2007-12-26
book: 342 pages
ISBN:055359107X
ISBN:9780553591071
Publisher: Spectra
Subject: Fiction

In the first volume in a new trilogy by the award-winning author of Undertow and Carnival, a wandering space colony struggles to survive and to retain order as ...

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