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Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael D. O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanations. It is a spaceship.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ten astronauts. An impostor determined to kill them all. Welcome to the deadliest spaceship of all time. The intrigue of everyone's favorite video game comes to life in this unofficial Among Us adventure. V is a young astronaut ready for any challenge that comes his way. His next assignment: locate and repair the Skeld, a well-known international spaceship that has been navigating on pilot mode for years. Ten astronauts from around the world are...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"The commander of Voyager, one Tom Paris, explains that Captain Kathryn Janeway and half of the original crew are dead, but if that is true, who is the mysterious woman who has kidnapped Kirk back on Earth, pleading with him to assist her against a threat to the entire Federation?"--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When the Imperial prison barge Purge breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But soon after a boarding party returns from a scavenging expedition, a horrific disease breaks out and takes the lives of all but a half-dozen survivors whose only option forces them to return to the Star Destroyer--and the soulless, unstoppable dead waiting...
9) Supernova
Author
Series
(Caitlin A.).Lightless trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Once Ananke was an experimental military spacecraft. But a rogue computer virus transformed it--her--into something much more: a fully sentient artificial intelligence, with all the power of a god--and all the unstable emotions of a teenager. Althea, the ship's engineer and the last living human aboard, nearly gave her life to save Ananke from dangerous saboteurs, forging a bond as powerful as that between mother and daughter. Now she devotes herself...
10) Crossover
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
The continuing Star Trek adventures of Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the Federation starship, USS Enterprise. On this mission, he is ordered to rescue Ambassador Spock of the Federation, taken hostage while negotiating peace between the Romulans and Vulcans.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people--and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The war may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens...
12) Dinosaur rocket!
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A group of adventurous dinosaurs blast off on a journey into outer space to explore the Moon.
13) Schild's ladder
Author
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Tchicaya and his spaceship Rindler are the center of scientific study of a newly created vacuum in space. He soon finds himself the focus of a fierce conflict between a faction that wants to study and preserve the vacuum and one that wants to destroy it.
14) Sheep blast off!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Upon finding a spaceship, sheep climb aboard and bumble around until they blast off into orbit.
15) Dark mirror
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
One hundred years after an accident with the dimensional barrier introduced four shipmates to an alternate universe, the sinister members of that universe discover a doorway into Picard's time, and plot to replace his Enterprise with theirs.
18) The Order
Author
Publisher
BreakNeck Media
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Mysterious gateways are appearing throughout the universe, bridging violent civilizations, leading to war, and sowing chaos. While some species succumb to the pandemonium, the Chut'un forge an unholy symbiotic relationship-The Order-with red Europhids, a vast hive intelligence populating the universe's far reaches. Desiring structure and fearing the unknown, they cull everything opposed to their plan, including the Europhids' blue counterparts, carrying...
19) Finder
Author
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Fergus Ferguson has been called a lot of names: thief, con artist, repo man. He prefers the term finder. His latest job should be simple. Find the spacecraft Venetia's Sword and steal it back from Arum Gilger, ex-nobleman turned power-hungry trade boss. He'll slip in, decode the ship's compromised AI security, and get out of town, Sword in hand. Fergus locates both Gilger and the ship in the farthest corner of human-inhabited space, a backwater deep...
20) Saturn run
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope--something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don't decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage...
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