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The virtual persona of a long-dead visionary entrepreneur threatens to incite a revolution from space that could topple Earth's powerful and repressive religious-technological dictatorship in this ingenious science fiction classic.
In the future, individual freedom is a thing of the past. North America is a police state controlled by the Avantist government, a despotic, techno-religious ruling order that promises an impending transcendence for the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. For Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still wants to drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. Humphries wants revenge against Pancho-and, most of all, he wants his old flame, Amanda, who has become Lars Fuchs's wife. Brimming...
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Robyn Bennis's THE GUNS ABOVE is an adventurous military fantasy debut about a nation's first female airship captain.
They say it's not the fall that kills you.
For Josette Dupre, the Corps' first female airship captain, it might just be a bullet in the back.
On top of patrolling the front lines, she must also contend with a crew who doubts her expertise, a new airship that is an untested deathtrap, and the foppish aristocrat Lord Bernat,...
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Honor Harrington novels. Main series volume 8
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Honor Harrington and some of the members of the People's Republic of Haven are trapped on a planet called Hell, and they must escape and help the people of Haven defeat the Peep Navy before their world is destroyed.
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2020.
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"Terminally ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost everything in the war with the alien Vai, but she'll be damned if she loses her future. Her plan: to buy, beg, or lie her way out of corporate indenture and find a cure. When her crew salvages a genocidal weapon from a ravaged starship above a dead colony, Ash uncovers a conspiracy of corporate intrigue and betrayal that threatens to turn her into a living weapon."--Amazon.
7) Spin
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Captain Chase novels volume 2
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In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between...
9) Dragon ship
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Liaden universe novels volume 15
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[2013]
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Inheriting the captaincy of a self-aware ship, maverick pilot Theo Waitley runs a trade route for Clan Korval while struggling with her lover's life-threatening illness and a hostile uprising that threatens hundreds of stranded crewmen.
10) Starhawk
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2013.
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"Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences. This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure. Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream. She's completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot's license. Her timing is far from optimal, however. Faster-than-light travel has only recently become a reality, and the World Space Authority is still learning how to manage long-range missions safely. To...
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[2008]
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Tired of politics, a fully restored Lady Cecelia searches for new bloodstock. But once again she finds herself-- and Heris Serrano-- in grave danger. This time the threat is a possible attack from warships belonging to the neighboring empire. Heris is a civilian now, with only a space yacht, so what can she do against a fleet of warships?
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Serrano legacy volume 1
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[2008]
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"Heris Serrano-- formerly a commander in the Regular Space Service-- must take whatever job she can get after her resignation under a cloud. What she can get is the captaincy of a rich old lady's space yacht-- a rich old horsewoman, who has little liking for the military, and whose spoiled nephew Ronnie (and his equally spoiled friends) have been foisted on her after his folly embarrassed the family. Lady Cecelia's only apparent interest is horses--...
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