Isaac Asimov
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 7
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1986.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Continues the Foundation trilogy. Golan Trevise, former councilman of the First Foundation, is entrusted with formidable task--to determine the future of Galactic development.
42) Asteroidas
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Introduces the bodies in space also known as planetoids, minor planets, or when they stray from their paths, meteoroids.
43) Mercurio
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Describes the planet closest to the sun, examining its size and composition, its surface features, its orbit, and efforts to learn more about this planet.
46) Faeries
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Galactic empires trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Tor edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An oppressed laborer on the planet of Florina, Rik resigns himself to a life of hard work and the poor regard of people who believe him to be mentally impaired before he begins to recover memories of an imminent disaster.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1987
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
332 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Deep within Russia, would-renowned scientist Pyotor Shapirov lies in a coma. Locked within his brain rests the key to the greatest scientific advance in the world's history. Only one scientist can hope to locate this secret-Dr. Albert Jonas Morrison, an American. Morrison's mission: to be miniaturized to molecular size along with a team of four Soviet scientists, travel in a specially designed submarine to the dying Shapirov's brain, and tap the secrets...
51) Fantastic voyage
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1966.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five people are miniaturized and sent on a rescue mission through a man's body where they have sixty minutes to reach and break up a blood clot in his brain.
52) Nemesis
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
364p. 24cm.
Language
English
Description
In the 23rd century, pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a 15-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of the dire threat that nemesis poses to Earth's people - but she is prevented from warning them. Soon, she will realize that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1955]
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andrew Harlan is an Eternal, a man whose job it is to range through past and present Centuries, monitoring and, where necessary, altering Time's myriad cause-and-effect relationships. But when Harlan meets and falls for a non-Eternal woman, he seeks to use the awesome powers and techniques of the Eternals to twist time for his own purposes, so that he and his love can survive together.
Author
Series
Foundation series volume 6
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1982]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
xi, 366 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Galactic empires trilogy volume 1
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor that everyone...