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Author
Series
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
It turned up in a North Dakota wheat field: a triangle, like a shark's fin, sticking up from the black loam. Tom Lasker did what any farmer would have done. He dug it up. And discovered a boat, made of a fiberglass-like material with an utterly impossible atomic number. What it was doing buried under a dozen feet of prairie soil two thousand miles from any ocean, no one knew. True, Tom Lasker's wheat field had once been on the shoreline of a great...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence missions and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled from Earth, and the starships that knit them together. Or so it's believed, until Dr. Kimberly Brandywine sets out to find what happened to her clone-sister Emily, who, after the final, unsuccessful manned SETI expedition, disappeared along with the...
Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
In the 21st century civilization has been destroyed. The protagonists are a group of people who make the dangerous journey to a land containing knowledge of the civilization. On the way they encounter its vestiges, including a car and a computer.
8) Moonfall
Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
It's the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems.
Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm. Below, the world is marveling at a rare solar eclipse.
But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an amateur astronomer discovers a new...
9) Seeker
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
10) Echo
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 5
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Eccentric Sunset Tuttle spent his life searching in vain for forms of alien life. Thirty years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic, indecipherable symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle's onetime lover, and antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is anxious to discover what secret the tablet holds. It could be proof that Tuttle had found what he was looking for. To find out, Benedict and his assistant embark on their own voyage of...
11) Firebird
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that a missing renowned physicist had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they vanished. Following the physicist's trail into the unknown puts Benedict and Kolpath in danger
12) Starhawk
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Hardcover
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
" 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Language
English
Description
In the late 2100s, archaeologists journey into outer space to seek the secret meaning of fourteen mysterious statues that had been found among the stars, uncovering ruins and following clues to the builders' identity to the farthest boundaries of the galaxy.
14) Coming home
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 7
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.
15) The long sunset
Author
Series
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Hutch has been the Academy's best pilot for decades. She's had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration to a growing fear that the program will run into an extraterrestrial race more advanced than humanity and war. Despite taking part in the recent scientific breakthrough that rejuvenates the human body and expands one's lifespan, Hutch finds herself as a famous interstellar...
16) Octavia gone
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
"After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact--which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series. After his return from space, Gabe is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed dead--just as Alex and Chase are trying to relearn how to live...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
The classic first-contact science fiction novel that launched the career of Jack McDevitt, the national bestselling author of Coming Home—now revised from the original edition, and featuring a new foreword.
From a remote corner of the galaxy a message is being sent. The continuous beats of a pulsar have become odd, irregular…artificial. It can only be a code.
Frantically, a research team struggles to decipher...
From a remote corner of the galaxy a message is being sent. The continuous beats of a pulsar have become odd, irregular…artificial. It can only be a code.
Frantically, a research team struggles to decipher...
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