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Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering "expats" from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible--for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time. She is tasked with working as a "bridge": living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as "1847" or Commander Graham Gore....
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Adventure! Danger! Revenge! And a mail-order robot gunslinger in a wedding dress? Only in the wildest parts of space could this happen. It's time again to get in your ramshackle rocket ship and journey to the universe's western territories with this follow-up to Gunfight on Europa Station. Meet the employees of a space bordello as they're drawn together to pull a con on a con. Or the crew filming a Western on a colony ship only to fight gravity and...
Author
Series
The last human volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a post-war world where robots and humans coexist, XR_935 and Emma strive to maintain a fragile peace, but tensions rise as a group of humans resists reconciliation, raising the threat of potential upheaval and the end of their harmonious society.
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Renowned filmmaker and record-shattering comic creator Keanu Reeves is joined by writer/artist Steve Skroce (The Matrix, Post Americana), screenwriter and director Mattson Tomlin (A Vicious Circle, The Batman Part II), and artist Rebekah Isaacs (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Money Shot) for a pair of self-contained stories set within the 80,000 year history of BRZRKR! In Poetry of Madness, a sea of gore and devastation awaits as B., through a fateful...
Author
Series
Ethan Fairmont volume 2
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ethan Fairmont and his friends attempt intergalactic communication and discover danger lurking close to home"--Provided by publisher.
When sixth-grader Ethan and his friends discover evil aliens, known as light-thieves, are infiltrating Ferrous City, they use their science skills to save their town and their alien friend, Cheese.
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The Illuminati must gather once again to stop the Maker! One of the last survivors of the original Ultimate Universe, the Maker plans to ensure that Earth's Mightiest Heroes never become heroes at all - and then he can reshape a defenseless universe into exactly what he wants it to be! Timelines and dimensions collide - and at the end of it all, the world outside your window will be forever changed! But how does Miles Morales factor into the Maker's...
Publisher
GKIDS Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
From renowned animator and storyteller Michel Ocelot comes a dazzling and magical new film that is certain to delight children, families and animation fans of all ages. Silhouetted characters set off against exquisitely detailed backgrounds bursting with color and kaleidoscopic patterns, as the film weaves together six exotic fables each unfolding in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, an Aztec kingdom, the African plains, and even the...
9) Jumpnauts
Author
Series
Folding universe volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a future where the world is roughly divided into two factions, the Pacific League of Nations and the Atlantic Division of Nations, tensions are high as each side waits for the other to make a move. But neither side is prepared for a powerful third party that has apparently been an influential presence on Earth for thousands of years, and just might be making a reappearance very soon. With the realization that a highly intelligent alien race has...
10) Escape velocity
Author
Series
Turbo racers volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old TURBO racer Mace faces hard choices when a sinister threat menaces not only his sport, but the entire world.
Author
Publisher
Disney, Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Featuring a vibrant illustration style, young fans and reluctant readers can get to know the most popular villains from the Skywalker saga in this level 2 reader--including Darth Vader, Darth Maul, Darth Sidious, Count Dooku, Jango Fett, and more!
12) Leviathan
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
On the dark and forbidding ocean floor, the crew of a deep-sea mining rig discovers a sunken freighter that harbors a deadly secret: a genetic experiment has gone horribly wrong. With a storm raging on the surface and no hope of rescue, the captain and his team are propelled into a spine-tingling battle for survival against the ultimate foe a hideous monster that cannot die...and lives to kill.
13) Mal goes to war
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He's not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting....
Author
Publisher
[Independently published]
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Wisper Grant has her life turned upside down when an underground explosion on her home planet releases alien spores that transform her from a happy little girl into Mordratha, the Queen of an ancient alien life form called the Rakshesha, the eaters of man. Knowing there aren’t enough humans on the planet to sustain her new hive for long, she must find a way to get off the planet… and do it soon. Jessie and Patrick are the only survivors...
Author
Series
Rip Through Time novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes--literally--when he is yanked "upstairs" and informed he has been given an opportunity to be educated at the ship's university alongside the elite. Overwhelmed and alone, the boy forms a bond with the woman he comes to know as "the professor," a weary idealist and descendent of the Chained who has spent her career...
17) Ocean's Godori
Author
Publisher
Hillman Grad Books, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju Island?s beloved female divers. She doesn?t like soju, constantly misses cultural references, and despite her love of the game, people still say that she doesn?t play Hwatu like a Korean. Ocean?s also persona non grata at the Alliance, Korea?s solar system?dominating space agency, since a mission went awry and she earned a reputation for being a little...
Author
Publisher
Bee Orchid Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A stagnating humanity is crushed onto seven small worlds, while the enigmatic union of alien life seems to set impossible goals to qualify for contact. When a discharged mental patient finds himself bankrupt, his only escape is to venture further into the cosmos than he ever dreamed. Do his inner demons hold the secret to peace with our stellar neighbors? Or will a fanatical leader and his cult return humanity to the dark ages?
19) Floating hotel
Author
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family-and a mystery that spans the stars"--
Author
Publisher
Nova
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Brandon Sanderson, el gran autor de fantasía del siglo XXI, nos lleva a un futuro de su universo del Cosmere en el que un perpetuo vagabundo planetario deberá decidir si seguir huyendo o quedarse y ayudar en un mundo atribulado. El Hombre Iluminado es una de las cuatro increíbles novelas con las que Sanderson ha protagonizado la mayor campaña de micromecenazgo de la historia de Kickstarter.Hace años tenía compañeros de armas y una causa en...