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Author
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The past few years have seen an incredible explosion in our knowledge of the universe. Since its 2009 launch, the Kepler satellite has discovered more than two thousand exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. More exoplanets are being discovered all the time, and even more remarkable than the sheer number of exoplanets is their variety. In Exoplanets, astronomer Michael Summers and physicist James Trefil explore these remarkable recent discoveries:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A Time Storm is Brewing. After an industrial ship carrying advanced self-replicating machines explodes on its way to Mercury, analysis of the wreckage reveals it to be forty years too old. Raibert Kaminski, the Gordian Division's top agent, and his crew on the TransTemporal Vehicle Kleio soon discover the ship was transported to an uncharted universe, one with temporarily accelerated time. Forty years passed for the ship's industrial machines while...
363) Edge of the wire
Author
Publisher
Talos
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A Science Fiction thriller that exposes our dependence on the artificial"--
An elite crew of astronauts is sent to an unknown planet. Their mission? To wire the planet within the all-encompassing and all-knowing system of artificial intelligence, known as "The Goo." It's hard to remember a time before The Goo ... and even harder to imagine a future without it. The advanced AI system anticipates humanity's wants, needs, and desires, and seems to...
364) Rebel
Author
Series
Ascent to empire volume 2
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The Five Hundred, the elite families who rule the Terran Federation, control its political power and its wealth, and they've grown steadily wealthier and more powerful, thanks to the war against the Terran League. War may be hard on the people who get caught in its path, but it's very good for business in the short term, and the Five Hundred own the shipyards that build the Navy's ships. They own virtually all the industry that produces the weapons...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Hal Jordan yearns for the thrill of discovery, but the days when astronaut and adventure were synonymous are long past. His gig prospecting asteroids for Ferris Galactic is less than fulfilling--but least he's not on Earth, where technology and culture have stagnated. He might be a nobody, but he's in space. When Jordan finds a powerful ring, he also finds a destiny to live up to. There are worlds beyond his own, unlike anything he ever imagined....
Publisher
IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A faithful graphic-novel adaptation of the concluding movie in the third Star Wars trilogy follows Rey's destiny-shaping decision alongside Kylo Ren, while Poe, Rose and Finn confront devastating choices to inspire a new generation of rebels.
Series
Star Wars (Disney/Lucasfilm Press) volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated retelling of the first Star Wars film in which the galaxy's fate lies in the hands of Princess Leia, Han Solo, and Luke Skywalker. The galaxy is at war. Although the Rebel Alliance has won a few battles against the Empire, hope is fading. The Empire is about to unveil the greatest weapon the galaxy has ever seen--the Death Star. The Rebels' only chance to defeat it now lies in the unlikely hands of a princess, a scoundrel,...
370) Orcs in space: 1
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Gor, Kravis, and Mongtar are three orcs trying to survive while on the run from everything and everyone on their homeworld. When the naive bureaucrats from StarBleep land on their planet Muckball, the orcs unwittingly steal the most advanced ship in the fleet and blast into the dankest reaches of the outer galactigon. After befriending the ship's AI, D.O.N.A, the gang must evade everything from pacifier-sucking bounty hunters to raucous nightclubs...
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