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By Robert Silverberg. 1987
More than 1,000 years into the future, the human race has spread all over the galaxy, settling in a host…
of bizarre and exotic worlds. In this great galactic civilization, one race alone has the unique sensitivity to pilot the starships safely through the hazardous depths of inter-stellar space - the Romany people. Yacoub, their king, finds himself in a time of turmoil as the old myths are put to the test. 1987.By Robert Silverberg. 1995
In the twenty-third century humans must find a new planet to inhabit. Fifty people board a starship to find a…
new world, led by a year-captain and a sightless young woman, Noelle, a telepathic mission communicator who stays in touch with her twin sister on Earth. When she loses contact with the planet, she is surprised by another presence in "nospace." Some explicit descriptions of sex. 1995.By Frederik Pohl. 1982
By Poul Anderson. 1998
Astronomers have discovered the possibility of advanced civilizations in the far reaches of the galaxy. A group of ten scientists…
boards the starship Envoy for a journey that will take thousands of years to complete. Although they eventually encounter another civilization, they are unprepared for the ramifications of their adventure. 1998.By Dale Brown. 2014
While leading a team of young engineers designing Starfire, the world's first orbiting solar power plant, James McLanahan Bradley is…
caught in the middle of a battle that threatens to become an all-out global war for control of space after the U.S. President ignites an arms race. 2014.By Louise Lawrence. 1978
A Welsh family is caught up in the struggle between the supernatural powers of a mountain and the technological powers…
of a star lord who crashes into it. For junior high readers. c1978.By Kenneth Oppel. 2008
Paris. Matt Cruse is looking forward to spending time with Kate de Vries over the summer, but first he is…
attacked and then Kate's parents summon her home. Things look up when the Canadian government makes an exciting offer to them both - Canada wants to reach space first, and the Canadian Minister of Air wants Kate to join the first expedition as an expert in aerial zoology. There's a place for Matt, too - if he can pass the gruelling tests to become one of the world's first astralnauts onboard the incredible ship Starclimber. For junior and senior high readers. Sequel to "Skybreaker" (DC27968). Some descriptions of sex and violence. 2008.By Monica Hughes. 1983
By Scott Westerfeld. 2006
Fifteen-year-old Tally from "Pretties" (DC29400), her boyfriend Zane, and their boss Shay have been reconstructed into super-strong paramilitary "specials." When…
they are sent to capture rebels who want to return to an unaltered state of mind, part of Tally wants to resist her programming. Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. Followed by "Extras" (DC32654). 2006. (Uglies series ; 3)By David Eddings. 1990
As the Malloreon saga continues, Garion, Belgarath, Polgara, and Ce'Nedra are in pursuit of the evil sorceress Zandramas. She has…
kidnapped Garion's infant son with plans to use him in an unspeakable ritual. They must battle the army of the demon lord Nahaz and the forces of Emperor Zakath as they continue on toward the Place Which Is No More and a showdown with Zandramas. Sequel to "Demon Lord of Karanda" (DC29081). 1990. (Malloreon ; 4)By Michael Marshall Smith. 1997
In a futuristic war-torn region of Virginia, former soldier Jack Randall works as a guard on a spares farm, where…
cloned humans are kept to provide replacement parts for their originals. When Randall absconds with seven of the "spares," they are pursued through a nearby megamall. Strong language and violence. 1997.By Brian Wilson Aldiss. 1976
By Douglas Adams. 1984
Arthur Dent is 1437 light years away from Earth, sitting in a Saab. He has just cracked his head on…
the door while climbing in. He feels stupified. Maybe it is because he has just laid eyes on the first female of the species that he has seen in years, sitting in the backseat. Sequel to "Life, the universe and everything" (DC29000). 1984. (The hitchhiker series ; 4)By Kurt Vonnegut. 1970
Billy Pilgrim, an American captured by the Germans in the Second World War, is billetted in a slaughterhouse in Dresden…
and survives the annihilation of the city by the RAF. He later becomes rich and successful, only to find himself transported to another planet from which he returns radiant and full of desire to preach his message. Strong language and violence. 1970, c1969.By Philip Webb. 2011
Cass and her brother Wilbur scavenge in the ruins of a future London seeking an artifact for their Russian masters,…
but the search takes on a new urgency after the arrival of Erin and Peyto, strangers from afar who claim to hold the key to locating the mysterious object. Grades 5 to 8. 2011.By Charles Stross. 2009
In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the…
Eschaton altered the course of humankind. New civilizations were founded across the vastness of space. Now, the technology-eschewing world known as the New Republic is besieged by an alien information plague. Earth quickly sends a battle fleet - but is it coming to the rescue, or is a sinister plot in motion? Followed by "Iron sunrise". 2009.By William Mayne. 1982
Skiffy is on a new space mission. This time he is heading for the twin planets Clarke I and Clarke…
II which appear to be behaving in a very peculiar way. Thirty-eight days out from Earth things start going wrong on the ship and there is `something' out there that is very old and very uncuddly. Grades 4-7. 1982.By Alison Goodman. 1998
Joss Aaronson is close to being expelled from the university where she studies time travel. Mavkel, a newly arrived telepathic…
student from another planet, then selects her as his study partner and roommate. When Joss discovers she is being stalked by an assassin, the two combine skills to search for reasons. Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. 1998.By Ada Palmer. 2016
A long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders…
of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned, so that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way. Mycroft Canner, convict, sentenced to wander the globe in service to all, knows more about this conspiracy than he can ever admit. Carlyle Foster, counselor, sensayer, has secrets as well, and they burden Carlyle beyond description. And both Mycroft and Carlyle are privy to the greatest secret of all: Bridger, the child who can bring inanimate objects to life. Sequel to "Too like the lightning", followed by "The will to battle". 2016.By Lauren DeStefano. 2013
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying…
at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source. Sequel to "Fever". Junior and Senior High. 2013.