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Author
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species. World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores...
2) Interstellar
Publisher
Paramount
Publication 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.
3) Illuminae
Author
Series
Publication Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The planet Kerenza is attacked, and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship's artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all"-- Provided by publisher.
5) Ad astra
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Army Corps engineer and astronaut Roy McBride is searching for answers in the depths of space. Twenty years ago, Roy's father went in search of proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life on Neptune during a one-way mission. The mission was designated officially as a failure. Roy searches the solar system for the truth about both his father's mission and a recent mystery that has unfolded that threatens Earth. What Roy doesn't know is that this...
Author
Publication Date
1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In this second of the galactic adventures of Arthur Dent, he is transported from a prehistoric Earth to a cricket match at Lords' Cricket Ground, two days before the Earth is to be demolished by the Vogens.
Author
Series
Wayfarers volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past. And nothing could be further from what she's known than the crew of the Wayfarer."--Page [4] of cover.
Rosemary Harper doesn't expect much when she joins the crew of...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The fifth novel in James S.A. Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel! A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed. The sole remaining protomolecule sample is stolen....
Publication Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.
11) Platform decay
Author
Series
Publication Date
2026.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for... eye contact! (Emotion check: Oh, for f-)...
Author
Series
Honors volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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.
13) Oblivion
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Jack Harper is the lone security repairman stationed on a desolate, nearly ruined future Earth. When he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft, her arrival triggers a nonstop chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows, and leaves humanity's fate in his hands.
Author
Series
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn't admit it!) is back in Fugitive Telemetry! Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it's "one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I've ever read") Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today. No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall. When Murderbot...
Author
Publication Date
1958
Language
English
Formats
Description
A classic novel from the mind of the storyteller who captures the imagination of readers from around the world, and across two generations. First prize in the Skyway Soap slogan contest was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Moon. The consolation prize was an authentic space suit, and when scientifically minded high school senior Kip Russell won it, he knew for certain he would use it one day to make a sojourn of his own to the stars. But "one day"...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of one of the X-Men's most beloved characters, Jean Grey, as she evolves into her iconic alter ego. During a life-threatening rescue mission in space, Jean is hit by a cosmic force that transforms her into one of the most powerful mutants of all. Wrestling with this increasingly unstable power as well as her own personal demons, Jean spirals out of control, tearing the X-Men family apart and threatening to destroy the very fabric of our...
17) Forbidden planet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Publication Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When Adams and his crew are sent to investigate the silence from a planet inhabited by scientists, he finds all but two have died. Dr. Morbius, his daughter Altaira and their dutiful robot Robby, have somehow survived a sinister invisible force which roams the planet. Unknown to Adams, Morbius has made a discovery, and has no intention of sharing it (or his daughter!) with anyone. This 1956 pop adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is one of the...
18) Alien: Romulus
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Author
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
The journey of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy continues through time and space in this installment from the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series.
Arthur has traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forward and backward through time. He has been blown up, reassembled, cruelly imprisoned, horribly released, and colorfully insulted more than is strictly...
Arthur has traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forward and backward through time. He has been blown up, reassembled, cruelly imprisoned, horribly released, and colorfully insulted more than is strictly...
Author
Series
Starbound volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Publication Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Two star-crossed lovers must fight for survival when they crash land on a seemingly uninhabited planet"-- Provided by publisher.





