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61) Losers in space
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433 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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In 2029, hoping to bypass the exams and training that might lead to a comfortable life, Susan, her almost-boyfriend Derlock, and seven fellow students stow away on a ship to Mars, unaware that Derlock is a sociopath with bigger plans.
64) The deep sky
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"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind -- except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation...
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5 videodiscs (973 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The Stargate is an intergalactic gateway, developed by an ancient civilization, that links other planets from other solar systems to ours. The U.S. Air Force assembles a Stargate team headed by Colonel Jack O'Neill for interstellar peacekeeping missions.
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349 pages ; 21 cm
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"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remains of her world. Aster lives in the lowdeck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, Matilda has ferried the last of humanity...
68) Odyssey
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423 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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"To boost waning interest in interstellar travel, a mission is sent into deep space to learn the truth about "moonriders," the strange lights supposedly being seen in nearby systems. But the team soon discovers that their odyssey is no mere public-relations ploy, for the moonriders are not a harmless phenomenon. They are very, very dangerous-in a way that no one could possibly have imagined"--Cover p. [4].
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Spacemice volume 2
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115 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
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English
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When Space mouse Geronimo Stiltonix helps an alien spacecraft get back to its home planet, their queen becomes enchanted by Geronimo, and tries to force him to marry her and stay on the planet Flurkon forever.
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xx, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species. World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores...
72) Frozen orbit
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"When a tiny space probe hurtled past Pluto in 2015, no one could know that its most amazing discovery would remain hidden for years. Only when a long-lost Soyuz is destroyed in the skies above Siberia does the truth begin to emerge. About to embark on NASA's first expedition to the outer planets, the crew of the spacecraft Magellan learns someone else has beaten them by a few decades: a top-secret Soviet project codenamed Arkangel. It was a mission...
74) Serenity
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A group of intergalactic revolutionaries get more than they bargained for when they agree to transport two teenagers aboard their ship.
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videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Recruited by Poe Dameron for a top secret Resistance mission, hotshot pilot Kazuda 'Kaz' Xiono finds himself in over his head when he and BB-8 are stationed aboard a large aircraft refueling station. Join Kaz on this high-flying adventure as he struggles to keep his cover as a mechanic and gets entangled with ace pilots, marauding pirates, villainous stormtroopers, and other colorful characters.
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548 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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Haviland Tuf es un ser curioso: un mercader independiente de gran corpulencia, calvo y con la piel blanca como el hueso. Es vegetariano, bebe montones de cerveza, como demasiado y le encantan los gatos. Además, es honesto. Tuf logra poseer una enorme nave espacial, el Arca, la única superviviente del antiguo Cuerpo de Ingeniería de la Vieja Tierra. El Arca es un artilugio desaparecido hace más de mil años, pero que revive gracias a Tuf y sus...
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419 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
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Two hundred years ago, humans made a stunning discovery in the far reaches of the solar system: a huge statue of an alien creature, with an inscription that defied all efforts at translation. Now, as faster-than-light drive opens the stars to exploration, humans are finding other relics of the race they call the Monument-Makers - each different, and each heartbreakingly beautiful. But except for a set of footprints on Jupiter's moon Iapetus, there...
80) Central Station
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A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris' ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated...
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