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1963.
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English
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Carter returns to Barsoom after a ten-year separation from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.
3) The sparrow
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English
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The sole survivor of a crew sent to explore a new planet, Jesuit priest Emilio Sandoz discovers an alien civilization that raises questions about the very essence of humanity, an encounter that leads Sandoz to a public inquisition and the destruction of his faith.
5) Semiosis
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Series
Semiosis duology volume 1
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English
Description
"Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life-form watches... and waits... Can humans learn how to communicate with the planet's sentient species and forge an alliance to prove that humans are more than mere tools?" - Back cover.
6) Scoundrels
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Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian work together on a potentially lucrative heist in the hopes of paying off Jabba the Hutt's bounty on Han's head.
12) March upcountry
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Pub. Date
2001.
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English
Description
Roger Ramius Sergei Chiang MacClintock was young, handsome, an excellent dresser, and third in line for the Throne of Man. So it wasn't surprising that he also became spoiled, self-centered, and petulant. But that was before he found himself shipwrecked on the jungle planet Marduk, full of damnbeasts, carnivorous plants and barbarian hordes. If anyone can get him off Marduk alive, it's the Bronze Battalion of the Empress's Own Regiment. But will Prince...
13) Domain
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Series
Domain trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
An asteroid impacts Earth, forever changing life on our planet. Only the object wasn't an asteroid …For thirty-two years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma of time and space that predicts humanity will perish on December 21, 2012 (the winter solstice). Julius believes that certain mysterious sites: the Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, the giant desert drawings of the Nazca Plateau, the temple...
18) Judas unchained
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Commonwealth saga volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Peter F. Hamilton's superbly imagined, cunningly plotted interstellar adventures are conceived on a staggeringly epic scale and filled with fully realized human and alien characters as complex as they are engaging. No mere world builder, Hamilton creates entire universes-and he does so with irresistible flair and intelligence. His previous novel, the acclaimed Pandora's Star, introduced the Intersolar Commonwealth, a star-spanning civilization of...
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Vatta's war volume 5
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
Description
Kylara Vatta has one final opportunity to muster the forces to destroy forever her enemy's power and to restore her family's name.
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