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1) Picoverse
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English
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Robert Metzger writes classic hard SF but he does so in a way that emphasizes excitement and adventure and which shows the science in a way that makes it accessible and fascinating. In PICOVERSE, a team of physicists in 2007 is trying to develop fusion power via a new development in plasma physics, a Sonomak, but accidentally stumbles on a method to create new, smaller-than-usual universes, which they call picoverses. These replicate everything in...
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Andromedan dark volume 1
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English
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Galaxies collide in a thrilling new series from bestselling author Ian Douglas, as the last humans in the universe face off against a new threat 2162. Thirty-eight years after first contact, Lord Commander Grayson St. Clair leads the Tellus Ad Astra on an unprecedented expedition to the Galactic Core, carrying more than a million scientists, diplomats, soldiers, and AIs. Despite his reservations about their alien hosts, St. Clair is deeply committed...
6) Firebird
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Alex Benedict novels volume 6
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Ace Books
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English
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Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath try to find a missing physicist whose fringe science theories on endless alternate universes led him to fly interstellar yachts outside the planetary system.
7) Firstborn
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Time odyssey volume 3
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English
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In the conclusion of the Time Odyssey series, The Firstborn, the alien race that built the iconic black monolith, wait for a sign as they plan to stop the advance of humankind through the use of a mysterious technology that is indistiguishable from magic.
8) Sunstorm
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Time odyssey volume 2
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English
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A woman stumbles upon a mysterious portal that links back to the Firstborn, omnipotent beings responsible for the upheaval of history and the creators of the notorious black monolith of "2001: A Space Odyssey."
9) Influx
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English
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A tale set in a world in which technological advances have been suppressed finds particle physicist Jon Grady helping to innovate a device capable of reflecting gravity only to be targeted by a shadowy organization from the future.
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Artemis Fowl series volume 7
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Disney/Hyperion Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Teenaged criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must save the underwater fairy metropolis of Atlantis from danger, while battling a psychological affliction known as the Atlantis Complex.
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Peri Reed chronicles volume 1
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Gallery Books
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English
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Set in a futuristic Detroit, drafter Peri Reed discovers her name on a list of corrupt operatives and her only hope to learn the truth is to team up with a rogue soldier.
12) The book of rain
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English
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The northern mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy worth twenty-eight times its weight in gold. It's also linked with slippages of time and space that gradually render the area uninhabitable. Three intertwined stories flow from the disaster of River Meadows. The accounts they hand down is an Epic of Gilgamesh for our times, illuminating the wisdom of nature and our flawed stewardship...
14) The long Utopia
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Series
Long Earth volume 4
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Harper, an imrpint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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English
Description
Lobsang's pursuit of a human life, Joshua's search for his father, and the adaptation efforts of "the Next" post-humans are challenged by a voracious alien race that would conquer and colonize the Long Earth.
15) The Long Mars
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Series
Long Earth volume 3
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HarperCollins
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English
Description
When her long-lost father, the inventor of the original Stepper device, contacts her, Sally joins him on an ill-fated voyage to Long Mars, while U.S. Navy Commander Maggie Kauffman leads an expedition to the outer limits of the far Long Earth, and Joshuabecomes embroiled in the plight of the Next.
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Interdependency novels volume 1
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English
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"Our universe is ruled by physics. Faster than light travel is impossible--until the discovery of The Flow, an extradimensional field available at certain points in space-time, which can take us to other planets around other stars. Riding The Flow, humanity spreads to innumerable other worlds. Earth is forgotten. A new empire arises, the Interdependency, based on the doctrine that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It's a hedge against...
17) Ecko: Rising
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Ecko trilogy volume 1
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English
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In a futuristic London where technological body modification is the norm, Ecko stands alone as a testament to the extreme capabilities of his society. Driven half mad by the systems running his body, Ecko is a criminal for hire. No job is too dangerous or insane. When a mission goes wrong and Ecko finds himself catapulted across dimensions into a peaceful and unadvanced society living in fear of 'magic', he must confront his own percepions of reality...
18) Elsewhere
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English
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A local eccentric known as Spooky Ed entrusts Jeffy Coltrane with hiding a strange and dangerous object - something he calls "the key to everything" - and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous men, he and Amity find themselves accidentally activating the key and discovering an extraordinary truth. The device allows them to jump between parallel planes. A man with a dark purpose is in pursuit, determined...
19) The long cosmos
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Series
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Doubleday
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English
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Completed by the authors some eighteen months before Terry Pratchett's untimely death, this is the grand climax of the Long Earth series. 2070-71, nearly six decades after Step Day and in the Long Earth, the new Next post-human society continues to evolve. For Joshua Valienté, now in his late sixties, it is time to take one last solo journey into the High Meggers: an adventure that turns into a disaster. As Joshua confronts his mortality, the Long...
20) Calculated risks
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Series
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DAW Books, Inc
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English
Description
After being kidnapped and manipulated by her birth family, Sarah Zellaby, who has undergone a transformation called an instar that makes her more powerful and difficult to control, is stranded in a different dimension where numerous people want her dead.
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