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The better part of valor (Confederation of valor series. #2.)
By Tanya Huff. 2008
What happens when a staff sergeant questions a two-star general's parentage to his face? Torin Kerr discovers the answer. Separated…
from her company, Kerr is ordered to report to a top-secret reconnaissance mission, either as punishment for her quick mouth or praise for her service. Kerr must turn a ragtag group of Marines into a cohesive fighting unit in a matter of days, while manoeuvring through the murky political waters of the Confederation. Sequel to “Valor’s choice”, followed by “The heart of valor”. 2008.The billion dollar boy: a Jupiter novel (Jupiter novel. #2.)
By Charles Sheffield. 1997
Bored and spoiled fifteen-year-old Shelby Cheever leaves his pampered existence on Earth for the disciplined rigors of survival in outer…
space. Shelby takes a cruise trip to the asteroid mines. But when he accidentally boards a ship to open space, his real adventures begin. Senior High. 1997.The best of Isaac Asimov (Doubleday science fiction)
By Isaac Asimov. 1974
Twelve science fiction short stories, starting with a 1939 saga of an engineered escape from a wrecked spaceship running out…
of air in the asteroid belt, and ending with a 1972 detective story on robot psychology. 1974.The Aspern papers
By Henry James. 1986
Julianna and her niece are marking time in a villa in Venice. A literary editor obsessed with the work of…
a long-dead poet, Jeffrey Aspern, comes into their lives to try to ferret out his papers. 1986.The aquanauts
By John Lunn. 2005
Fifteen-year-old Greta travels with her brilliant father to a laboratory on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Her father has…
created a man-made black hole, but an accident with it spins her dad, along with all the other scientists, billions of years into the future, trapping in a particle of time. Three other kids live on the habitat, and, calling themselves the Aquanauts, they band together with Greta to travel through time in a frantic attempt to save their parents and themselves from being locked under the sea for eternity. For junior and senior high readers. Some descriptions of violence. 2005.The apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
By Mordecai Richler. 1959
The awkward age
By Henry James. 1987
Nineteen-year-old Nanda Brookenham is about to be introduced to London society by her forty-year-old mother. Nanda soon finds herself in…
love with thirty-four-year-old Vanderbank, who happens to be Mrs. Brook's lover. She is further caught between her respect for maintaining the ideals of her elders and her desire to get away from the confines of society, most of all from its restrictions on women. 1987.The attack on the mill and other stories (The World's classics)
By Douglas Parmee, Émile Zola. 1984
Terminus radieux: roman (Fiction & cie)
By Antoine Volodine. 2014
" Taïga sombre et immense, steppes infinies la Deuxième Union soviétique s'écroule et la Sibérie, dévastée par des accidents nucléaires,…
est inhabitable. Entourés de paysages grandioses, des soldats fantômes et d'inquiétantes princesses s'obstinent à poursuivre le rêve soviétique. Désormais le centre du monde a un nom, Terminus radieux, un kolkhoze dont la pile atomique s'est enfoncée sous terre. Solovieï, le président du village, met ses pouvoirs surnaturels au service de son rêve de toute-puissance. Assisté par l'immortelle Mémé Oudgoul, il règne en maître sur le destin des hommes et des femmes qui ont atterri là. Non loin du kolkhoze passe une voie ferrée où circule un unique convoi. Prisonniers et militaires cherchent en vain le camp où leur errance prendra fin. Mais, là encore, Solovieï ordonne l'histoire. Il leur faudra attendre des milliers d'années pour que s'éteigne sa présence dans leur cauchemar. " -- 4e de couv.Ten monkeys, ten minutes
By Peter Watts. 2000
Having trouble seeing God's image in the Rwandan genocide, or finding the Third Reich and the Sistine Chapel compatible? No…
matter how we excuse our own brutality - covering it up in religion, motherhood, or politics - we're all just monkeys under the skin. These short science fiction stories will help the reader discover their genes, meet their brainstorm, and embrace their inner brute. Strong language and some descriptions of violence. 2000.The 100 (100. #1.)
By Kass Morgan. 2013
In the future, humans live in city-like spaceships orbiting far above Earth's toxic atmosphere. Faced with dwindling resources and a…
growing populace, government leaders send one hundred juvenile delinquents on a dangerous mission to recolonize Earth. Followed by "Day 21". For junior and senior high readers. 2013.The accidental time machine
By Joe W Haldeman. 2008
Things are going nowhere for lowly MIT research assistant Matt Fuller - especially not after his girlfriend drops him for…
another man. But then while working late one night, he inadvertently stumbles upon what may be the greatest scientific breakthrough ever. His luck, however, runs out when he finds himself wanted for murder - in the future. 2008.Tesseracts 2
By Phyllis Gotlieb, Douglas Barbour. 1987
Tesseracts
By Judith Merril. 1985
The Afterdark princess
By Annie Dalton. 1992
Joe Quail is easily worried - the wrong kind of boy altogether to be a hero, but when Alice shows…
Joe the Kingdom of Afterdark and explains that someone's life is at stake, there doesn't seem to be much choice, and Joe is swept into an adventure to save the last Princess of Afterdark. Grades 2-4. 1992.Tek net (Tek series. #9)
By William Shatner. 1997
Soon after Sid Gomez' second wife calls him to say she's in trouble, she disappears. Sid and Jake Cardigan have…
two leads -- Sonny Hokori, one of the most infamous TekLords, and an enemy to Jake from way back, and Garret Devlin, a secretive industrialist long suspected of underworld connections, but who died four years ago. Some strong language. Sequel to "Tek kill". 1997.Terra!
By Annapaola Cancogni, Stefano Benni. 1985
In 2157, Earth is in the grip of nuclear winter. When news of another life-sustaining planet reaches the people, plans…
for a space journey begins. Some strong language. c1985. Uniform title: Terra!Spark: [roman] (Mission nouvelle terre. #2.)
By Amy Kathleen Ryan. 2012
" Piégés sur une Terre en fin de vie, les derniers survivants de l'humanité n'ont qu'une issue : envoyer des…
vaisseaux à la recherche d'une nouvelle Terre pour assurer la survie de l'espèce. Le voyage durera plusieurs siècles. Waverly et Kieran sont nés à bord d'un des vaisseaux, et ont toujours vécu la tête dans les étoiles. Jusqu'au jour où tout bascule. Comment s'enfuir, comment survivre, quand on habite au beau milieu de l'espace ? " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Spark.Superbébé
By Henrietta Branford. 1998
Tangled planet
By Kate Blair. 2018
It's taken 400 years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination. Beta Earth is an…
uninhabited, untouched planet that seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa has to colonise with her crewmates. The first night Ursa is on Beta Earth her world goes out of control when she encounters a dead body. She's positive she saw a large creature with sharp teeth, something that shouldn't even be on the planet, but nobody believes her. As injuries and bodies start piling up, Ursa must figure out who to trust when her fellow crewmates start taking sides between Venture's safety and the hope of creating a home on Beta Earth. If Ursa and her people can't find out what's really going on in the forest, their already fragile society won't survive. For senior high readers. 2018.