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Space colonies

  • The knife of never letting go
    Author:
    Ness, Patrick
    Summary:

    Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World...
  • The final six
    Author:
    Monir, Alexandra
    Summary:

    Set in the near future, this action-packed YA novel-already optioned by Sony Pictures-will take readers out of this world and on a quest to become one of six teens sent on a mission to Jupiter's moon. This is the next must-read for fans...
  • The city in the middle of the night
    Author:
    Anders, Charlie Jane
    Summary:

    "If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives." January is a dying planet--divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless...
  • Tangled planet
    Author:
    Blair, Kate
    Summary:

    It's taken 400 years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination. Beta Earth is an uninhabited, untouched planet that seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa has to colonise with her crewmates. The first night...
  • Singularity sky
    Author:
    Stross, Charles
    Summary:

    In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the Eschaton altered the course of humankind. New civilizations were founded across the vastness of space. Now...
  • Seed seeker
    Author:
    Sargent, Pamela
    Summary:

    After Ship settled humans on planet Home, it promised to return. Over time, and with conflict, the colony divided. When a light appears in the sky, one side believes it's Ship, but the others are silent. Whatever it is, life is about to...
  • Red rising
    Author:
    Brown, Pierce
    Summary:

    Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow."-- Scott Sigler Pierce Brown' s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender' s Game by Orson Scott Card. " I live for the dream that my...
  • Planet of exile
    Author:
    Le Guin, Ursula K.
    Summary:

    Relations are strained between the planet Werel's native people and its colony of stranded Earthmen, but they share a common genetic heritage as well as common enemies. Will they join forces or be annihilated?
  • Persepolis rising
    Author:
    Corey, James S. A.
    Summary:

    An old enemy returns. In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship...
  • Monsters of men
    Author:
    Ness, Patrick
    Summary:

    As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
  • Luna : wolf moon
    Author:
    McDonald, Ian
    Summary:

    Corta Hélio, one of the five family-corporations that rule the moon, has fallen. Only Lady Sun suspects that the last appointed heir, Lucas Corta, is not dead. Corta Hélio needs allies; and to find them the fleeing son undertakes an...
  • Luna : new moon
    Author:
    McDonald, Ian
    Summary:

    In the moon's near-feudal society, you must fight for every inch you want to gain. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. Now, at the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation surrounded by the many enemies she made during...
  • Iron sunrise
    Author:
    Stross, Charles
    Summary:

    Planet Moscow is vaporized by an unnatural star explosion, prompting those who escaped to counterattack the likely culprit--planet New Dresden of the neighboring system. But New Dresden wasn't to blame, and as worlds go to war, an...
  • Golden son : book II of the red rising trilogy
    Author:
    Brown, Pierce
    Summary:

    Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class,...
  • Galileo's dream
    Author:
    Robinson, Kim Stanley
    Summary:

    Ganymede, a rebellious Jovian, attempts to bring famed scientific mind Galileo forward in time to alter the course of history with astonishing results.
  • Darkover landfall
    Author:
    Bradley, Marion Zimmer
    Summary:

    Darkover, planet of wonder, world of mystery, has been a favorite of science fiction readers for many years. For it is a truly alien sphere--a world of strange intelligences, of brooding skies beneath a ruddy sun, and of powers unknown...
  • Aurora
    Author:
    Robinson, Kim Stanley
    Summary:

    Our voyage from Earth began generations ago. Now we approach our destination--a new home: Aurora. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, Aurora is the work of a writer at the height of his powers.
  • Adiamante
    Author:
    Modesitt, L. E.
    Summary:

    Earth, the peaceful capital of a long-fallen interstellar empire, is confronted by deadly violence when the warships of a former colony attack, and it is up to planetary coordinator Ecktor deJanes to eliminate the menace without...
  • Achilles
    Author:
    Boose, Greg
    Summary:

    Greg Boose presents the first novel in the Deep Sky Saga series. The year is 2221, and humans have colonized an earthlike planet called Thetis in the Silver Foot Galaxy. After a tragic accident kills off dozens of teenage colonists,...
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