Catalog Search Results
1) Contact
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 23
Formats
Description
Radio telescopes on Earth receive a signal indicating the existance of life 26 light-years away in the vicinty of the star Vega. A brilliant scientist, Eleanor Arroway is instrumental in responding to the message. In December 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Le Guin's Hainish series begins with the assumption that centuries ago humanoids from the planet Hain ventured through the solar system establishing colonies on various planets including Earth. For mysterious reasons these colonies lose all contact and knowledge of each other until the 21st century when an attempt is made to establish a galactic league. Individual stories in this loosely organized series explore the inherent communication difficulties...
3) Blue Mars
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The First Hundred settlers on Mars have succeeded in making Mars into a green, water-rich land, but are now facing a crisis due to an impending ice-age and problems on Earth that are causing its people to seek a better life on the former desert planet.
4) Foundation
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
For twelve thousand years the galactic empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the galaxy to...
Author
Series
Chronicle of the dark star volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
It is Earth year 2213?but, of course, there is no Earth anymore. Not since it was burned to a cinder by the sun, which has mysteriously begun the process of going supernova far sooner than anyone expected. The human race has fled to Mars, but this was only a temporary solution while we have prepared for a second trip: a 150-year journey to a distant star, our best guess at where we might find a new home.
6) Green mars
Author
Series
Mars trilogy volume 2
Formats
Description
"Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed on Mars, and its transformation to an Earthlike planet is under way. But not everyone wants to see the process through. The methods are opposed by those determined to preserve their home planet's hostile, barren beauty. Led by the first generation of children born on Mars, these rebels are soon joined by a handful of the original settlers. Against this cosmic backdrop, passions, partnerships,...
8) Perelandra
Author
Series
Space trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
Description
The second of a trilogy, the title of the first being Out of the silent planet and that of the third That hideous strength. Science Fiction books collection--look for Science Fiction spine label.
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
860L
Description
"It is the year 12,020 G.E. and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, forty billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall--those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future. Hari Seldon has come to Trantor to deliver his paper on psychohistory,...
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 5
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins - destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But is has been rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established as insurance to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule failed to find it the first time - but now he is certain he know where it is. And this time the annihilation will be total: no trace of...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1020L
Formats
Description
Dr. Ransom, a noted philologist, is kidnapped and flown by spaceship to Malacandra (Mars) where he flees his human captors and establishes communication with the planet's extraordinary inhabitants. What he learns galvanizes his attempt to return to Earth with a message of great urgency.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 22
Description
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon''s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all-and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge. Now the two exiled citizens of the Foundation-a renegade Councilman and the doddering historian-set out in...
13) Childhood's end
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city - intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began." "But at what cost? With the advent of peace, man ceases to strive for creative greatness, and a malaise settles over the human race. To those who resist, it becomes evident that the Overlords...
15) Old man's war
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
When humanity reaches the stars, it discovers that it must defend its claim to new planets against alien races with similar expansionist tendencies. To ensure the expertise of its soldiers, Earth creates the Colonial Defense Force, an army of men and women otherwise classified as senior citizens, who give up their lives on Earth for an uncertain and perilous future among the stars. Scalzi's first novel presents a new approach to military sf, boasting...
16) Network effect
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 5
Description
"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you are at work, and you have had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
Author
Series
My teacher is an alien volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Description
After Susan sees Mr. Smith the substitute teacher peel off his face, she knows he's an alien and only Peter believes her. Together they work to save the class from Mr. Smith's horrible plans.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1986
Description
Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation, has chosen the future, and it is Gaia. A superorganism, Gaia is a holistic planet with a common consciousness so intensely united that every dewdrop, every pebble, every being, can speak for all—and feel for all. It is a realm in which privacy is not only undesirable, it is incomprehensible. But is it the right choice for the destiny of mankind? While Trevize feels it is, that is not enough....
19) Xenocide
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Lusitania's three sapient species are in trouble. The starways congress has decided to wipe out the planet to kept a deadly virus from escaping . A fourth intelligence loyal to Ender and Lusitania causes the fleet to disappear. What is the Starways Congress going to do next?
20) Dune
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Appears on these lists
Description
Follows the adventures of Paul Atreides, the son of a betrayed duke given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny.