Larry Niven
1) Inferno
Author
Language
English
Description
After falling from the eighth story of a hotel during a science fiction convention, writter Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the Vestibule of Hell. His journey thorugh Hell reveals new, puzzling, and outlandish methods of sin recast for the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Avalon was thriving. The cold sleep colonists from Earth had settled on a verdant, livable world. The fast and cunning predators humans named "grendels" were under control, and the mainland outposts well established. Avalon's new mainland hydroelectric power station was nearly complete, and when on-line would compensate for the nuclear power systems lost in the Grendel Wars. Humans would have power, and with power came the ability to make all the...
4) Rainbow Mars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Hanville Svetz was born into a future to match the sorriest predictions of Greenpeace. Most of Earth's original life forms are extinct. It had been Svetz's job to go back in time and retrieve them but he's been transferred. He now must figure out why the Martian canals have gone dry and what that means for Earth's future, because Mars was inhabited. When Svetz learns how the sapient Martian species was wiped out, he realizes that Earth could soon...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Like Earth, the space colony of Destiny has its trading caravans, except on Destiny they don't deal in spices but speckles, an ingredient necessary for mental health. The hero is a member of a caravan and as the novel follows his adventures it describes the colony's unusual culture.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a chain reaction of supernovae explosions at the core of the galaxy unleashes a deadly wave of radiation that will sterilize the entire galaxy, the Citizens--accompanied by Kirsten Quinn-Kovacs, a descendant of human survivors--flee into the unknown.
14) Ringworld
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[1970]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Author
Series
Ringworld volume 5
Language
English
Description
"For decades, the spacefaring species of Known Space have battled over the largest artifact -- and grandest prize -- in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. But without warning the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets... But the crises converging upon the trillion Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds go far beyond even the onrushing armadas. One way or another, the fabled race of Puppeteers...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds seek a way to survive among enemies and crises.
Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have---just barely---survived. They've stumbled from one crisis to the next: The rebellion of their human slaves. The relentless questing of the species of Known Space. The spectacular rise of the starfish-like...
19) Saturn's race
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Traveling to Xanadu as a student, Lenore Myles becomes involved with Xanadu citizen Chaz Kato and is horrified when she learns the truth behind the glittering futuristic island, a discovery that causes her to be prompted by the mysterious Saturn to race for her life