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41) Dune
Author
Series
Dune chronicles volume 1
Language
Español
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Description
"En el desértico planeta Arrakis, el agua es el bien más preciado y llorar a los muertos, el símbolo de máxima prodigalidad. Pero algo hace de Arrakis una pieza estratégica para los intereses del Emperador, las Grandes Casas y la Cofradía, los tres grandes poderes de la galaxia. Arrakis es el único origen conocido de la melange, preciosa especia y uno de los bienes más codiciados del universo. Al duque Leto Atreides se le asigna el...
42) Star splitter
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In 2199, 17-year-old Jessica Mathers wakes up on a desolate, post-extinction planet 14 light years from Earth and must make sense of the bloody destruction around her, as well as the questionable intentions of a familiar stranger"--
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Years before he met Luke and Leia, before he helped overthrow the Emperor, Han Solo started where all heroes start: at the bottom. Join your most favorite scoundrel in the galaxy on an adventure you'll never forget! Throughout his death-defying adventures among the criminal scum of the Star Wars Universe, Han will meet the one who will become his closest ally, Chewbacca! Watch as Han matches wits with the infamous gambler Lando! Follow Han on the...
44) The last shadow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe-the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it were allowed to escape from Lusitania. One planet. Three sapient species living peacefully together. And one deadly virus that could wipe out...
45) Network effect
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
Author
Series
[Starbound] volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"Two star-crossed lovers must fight for survival when they crash land on a seemingly uninhabited planet"--
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 4
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit...
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find that an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving the world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.
49) Pandora's star
Author
Series
Commonwealth saga volume 1
Language
English
Description
Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such SF giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamilton's bestselling fiction-powered by a fearless imagination and world-class storytelling skills-has also earned him comparison to Tolstoy and Dickens. Hugely ambitious, wildly entertaining, philosophically stimulating: the novels of Peter F. Hamilton will change the way you think about science fiction....
50) Red thunder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
“The heart-pounding space race is on . . . in this riveting SF thriller” from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Red Lightning and Rolling Thunder (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
As Chinese and US spacecraft compete to be the first to land on Mars, a former astronaut, his cousin, and four teens from Florida decide to take matters into their own hands. If...
As Chinese and US spacecraft compete to be the first to land on Mars, a former astronaut, his cousin, and four teens from Florida decide to take matters into their own hands. If...
51) Flame
Author
Series
Sky chasers volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Waverly, Kieran, and Seth struggle to survive on board the New Horizon--and take down their enemies before it's too late"--
52) Interstellar
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history: traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Spacemice volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When Space mouse Geronimo Stiltonix helps an alien spacecraft get back to its home planet, their queen becomes enchanted by Geronimo, and tries to force him to marry her and stay on the planet Flurkon forever.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an entire town seemingly vanishes from a planet with conditions favorable to life, Alex Benedict and his archaeological crew must solve the mystery of how these aliens disappeared so rapidly--and why--which raises the stakes as they each look to maketheir mark on history.
55) Lies, Inc
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The solution to Earth’s overpopulation holds a dark secret in this science fiction novel from the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
When catastrophic overpopulation threatens Earth, one company offers to teleport citizens to Whale’s Mouth, an allegedly pristine new home for happy and industrious émigrés. But there is one problem: the teleportation machine only works in one direction.
...Author
Series
Honors volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Petty criminal Zara Cole is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans chosen by the Leviathan to explore the outer reaches of the universe.
57) Children of ruin
Author
Series
Children of time volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from...
59) Rescue rebellion
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Traveling to the planet Jurassix to warn its inhabitants of an imminent comet strike, Geronimo Stilton and his crew encounter ferocious, dinosaur-like beasts who have an appetite for rodents.
60) High life
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew, death row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives, has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
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