Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
April 2019 - June 2019
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
Additional information about each title can be found in the catalog (click on the title). For older acquisition lists choose from Select another list. To request any of these titles please contact your local library branch.
By Buckell, Tobias S. Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Twenty-seven years after washing up on the shores with no memory of his past, John deBrun discovers that he retains an understanding about a mythical artifact and becomes Nanagada's only chance for survival against the fearsome Azteca. |
By Buettner, Robert Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Mankinf's firse alien contact tears into Earth: tremendous projectiles launched from Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, vaporize entire cities. Millions are dead, millions more will die. Under siege, humanity gambles on one desperate counterstrile... In the glory days of world peace before the aliens came, Jason Wander never dreamed of going into the military. Then the Indianapolis Projectile kills his mother, and he's left an angry eighteen-year-old orphan, given to violent episodes. When one lands him in court, he's offered a choice: go to jail or join the army. He doesn't need to think twice. |
Llana of Gathol and John Carter of Mars By Burroughs, Edgar Rice Publishing Date: [1977] Classification: SF Call Number: SF |
By Card, Orson Scott Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: SF Call Number: SF The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army, but China has been devastated by the Formics' initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship. Earth's government has been reorganized for defense; it now comprises a Hegemon, a planetary official responsible for keeping all the formerly warring nations in line, and a Polemarch, responsible for organizing all the military forces of the planet into the new International Fleet. But ambition and politics, greed and self-interest remain. It is up to Will Bingwen, Mazer Rackam, Victor Delgado and Lem Juke be able to create a weapon that can effectively defend humanity, |
By Carver, Jeffrey A. Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: SF Call Number: SF After escaping a pirate stronghold, star rigger Renwald Legroeder and the seductive Tracey-Ace become embroiled in an ancient conflict within the "Centrist Worlds," in the sequel to The Infinity Link. 15,000 first printing. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Cooper, Brenda Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Chelo Lee, her brother Joseph, and four other genetically enhanced children who have been abandoned on the colony world of Fremont struggle to make the dangerous, wild planet home and discover that a long-deserted space ship could hold the key to their survival. |
NEW RELEASE By Corey, James S. A. Publishing Date: 2019 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay. At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortazar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrique, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father, the emperor, doesn't guess. And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rearguard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule--and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose--seems more and more certain. Because, against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough..."-- |
By Daniel, Tony Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "Captain Arid Ricimer, an alien starship commander with integrity and a clever plan, attempts to defect to Earth with his officers and entire spaceship, a vessel that mounts a superweapon of almost unimaginable power. He's pursured by his former fleet, a force that has already devastated Earth and is poised to wipe out humanity from existence. Now Arid, along with his human allies, Captain Jim Coalbridge and alien analyst Lieutenant Commander Griff Leher must face down the forces of a tyrannical star empire"-- |
By Dietz, William C. Publishing Date: 2002 Classification: SF Call Number: SF After an alien invasion by the Saurons has devastated the Earth, Jack Manning and Alex Franklin join forces to undertake an underground war of resistance. |
By Drake, David Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Daniel Leary is Cinnabar's most successful space captain. His friend, Lady Adele Mundy, is its most efficient spy. But they've got their hands full this time as they face a world of slaves, where the most savage beasts in the jungle used to be human. |
By Drake, David Publishing Date: [2006] Classification: SF Call Number: SF The tyrannical Alliance continurs its war against the Republic of Cinnabar, and Daniel Leary, newly promoted to Commander, and his crew have a new mission: Stop Dunbar's World from falling to an invasion by the planet Pellegrino. Nataniel Arruns, son of the dictator of Pelligrino, has landed with an army, intending to set himself up as warlord and turn the planet's population into workers--serfs--of their new Pellegrinian masters. Dunbar's World has only its police force to oppose him. Those who rule Cinnabar's so-called ally would rather see Leary fail than succeed in stopping the invasion, and though he again commands the corvette Princess Cecile, on this mission she's no more than a private yacht: her missile tubes are empty. Somehow he must capture an enemy base defended by plasma cannon and shipkilling missiles and supported by a cruiser in orbit. But Leary has the help of Signals Officer Adele Mundy, who can make computer networks do the apparently impossible. Leary, Mundy and the crew of the Princess Cecile have gone up against impossible odds before...and their opponents are still wondering just what hit them. |
By Drake, David Publishing Date: c2003 Classification: SF Call Number: SF In the wake of the peace accord between the Republic of Cinnabar and the Alliance, former warriors Lt. Daniel Leary and Signals Officer Adele Mundy make a living escorting wealthy nobles on an expedition to a remote section of the universe and find themselves taking on winged dragon. . |
By Drake, David Publishing Date: c2004 Classification: SF Call Number: SF In a distant part of the galaxy where immense danger threatens, desperate pirates travel to the outer limits of space, doing trade with the star colonies and encountering rivals, aliens, and strange human hybrids, in an omnibus edition that contains the trilogy Igniting the Reaches, Through the Breach, and Fireships. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Drake, David Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Violence racks Cinnabar. The fleets of the tyrannical Alliance are on the move, and at home class riots threaten to rip apart not only society but the Republic of Cinnabar Navy. Lt. Daniel Leary has earned promotion, but the needs of the Republic and the RCN require that he serve under an officer whose paranoia has already led him to execute crewmen out of hand. Signals Officer Adele Mundy has repeatedly proved her skills and loyalty as Cinnabar's most accomplished intelligence agent, but now elements within the Republic want to draw her into a conspiracy like the one that led to her parent's massacre. Leary and Mundy battle their way from riot-torn streets to spies in an outlying base and an anarchic planet where violence is the only law, but if they succeed at every stage, one test still remains: a space battle against an overwhelming Alliance force. Even for Daniel Leary it will be a difficult fight to win-and almost impossible to survive. |
By Drake, David Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: SF Call Number: SF When the Republic of Cinnabar doesn't have enough battleships to deal with all the crises in its war with the Alliance, it sends the next best thing: Commander Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy. This time they're off to help the Bagarian cluster in its rebellion against the Alliance, but they'll quickly find that the worst threats to the rebels are the treacherous politicians leading them. |
By Drake, Jocelynn Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Vampire Mira, who has mastery over fire, goes up against a human vampire hunter, Danaus, that continues through the first two volumes of the Dark Days series. |
By Flint, Eric Publishing Date: c2006 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Searching for the truth behind an oddly shaped fossil discovered in the Arizona desert that could hold the key to the great extinction at the KT boundary, Dr. Helen Sutter never realized that her quest would take her all the way to the planet Mars. |
By Foster, Alan Dean Publishing Date: 1995 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A new adventure--the first in hardcover--in the best-selling series finds Flinx and his faithful mini-dragon Pip on a jungle planet, where they discover the human descendants of a lost colony ship. - (Baker & Taylor) |
The founding of the Commonwealth: Phylogenesis, Dirge, Diuturnity's dawn By Foster, Alan Dean Publishing Date: 2002 Classification: SF Call Number: SF All 3 books in the Humanx Commonwealth trilogy -- Phylogenesis, Dirge, and Diuturnity's Dawn -- in one volume. |
By Foster, Alan Dean Publishing Date: c1999 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Will and Sylvia search for the mysterious Hand of Dinotopia, which will supposedly lead to a safe sea route to and from the hidden island where people and dinosaurs live together peacefully. |