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61) El marciano
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Seis días atrás el astronauta Mark Watney se convirtió en uno de los primeros hombres en caminar por la superficie de Marte. Ahora está seguro de que será el primer hombre en morir allí. La tripulación de la nave en que viajaba se ve obligada a evacuar el planeta a causa de una tormenta de polvo, dejando atrás a Mark tras darlo por muerto. Pero él está vivo, y atrapado a millones de kilómetros de cualquier ser humano, sin posibilidad de...
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"The fates of a cast of seemingly unconnected people converge during the celebration of an ancient holiday in a thought-provoking debut that brings to mind such novels as Station Eleven and The Age of Miracles. In Domenica Ruta's profoundly original debut novel, the end of the world comes every year. Or at least it's supposed to. On May 3, humanity comes together to anticipate the planet's demise--and to celebrate as if the day were truly their last....
64) The final six
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Final six volume 1
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Surrounded by strangers all competing for one of the six slots to travel to Jupiter's moon, Europa, Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, finds a friend in Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, as the training tests their limits.
65) Hell divers
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Hell divers volume 1
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"More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to Earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers--men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need. When...
66) Star dust
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Fly me to the moon volume 1
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Houston, Texas, 1962. Anne-Marie Smith wanted normal: a loving husband, two beautiful kids and a well-kept house. But when she catches her husband cheating, she decides that normal isn't worth it. Now in a new city with a new job, she's trying to find her new normal but she knows it doesn't include the sexy playboy astronaut next door. Commander Kit Campbell has a taste for fast: fast cars, fast planes and even faster women. But no ride he's ever...
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"None of her training prepares astronaut Natasha Stark for what she wakes up to three weeks after her groundbreaking space voyage: a target on her back--and no memories. But there's something oddly familiar about the FBI agent who rescues her. Christopher Barton can't believe he drew the mission of safeguarding his long-ago fiancée and her daughter--a child he has every reason to believe is his. To learn the truth, though, he has to help Natasha...
69) Warp speed
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Dr. Neil Anson Clemons was born at the very moment that men first landed on the moon and always strived to become an astronaut and reach the stars. Neil devoted his life to staying physically fit as any astronaut should be through martial arts and mentally fit by studying and becoming one of the world's foremost experts in quantum physics and gravitational theory. Now he and his team have achieved a breakthrough, both in building a warp drive, and...
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5,000 years in the future, humankind has spread across thousands of worlds, and more than a dozen different governments exist in an uneasy truce. But human beings have found no signs of other life anywhere approaching human intelligence.
This changes when scientists discover a sunless planet they name Danann, travelling the void just beyond the edge of the Galaxy at such a high speed that it cannot be natural. Its continents and oceans have been...
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Voyagers volume 3
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Astronaut Stoner, who assimilated the powers of an alien he encountered in an asteroid, must now use those powers to preserve peace on Earth, while facing a myriad of crises.
73) Power challenges
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Jake Ross novels volume 4
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It is time to start the colonizing the solar system. Ex-astronaut, current space advisor, and all-out trouble shooter for the President, Jake Ross, is determined to make it happen. And what better way to return to America's glory than by returning to the moon and setting up a permanent moon-base which can then serve as the launching pad for Mars and beyond. But as usual, political intrigue and conflicting priorities are threatening the whole program....
74) Hot moon
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Apollo rising volume Book 1
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In an alternate 1979, the United States and the Soviet Union have permanent Moon bases, crewed spy satellites, and frequent hostilities. Vivian Carter, commander of Apollo 32, is on a mission to explore a volcanic region of the Moon when she is caught in the crossfire of a Soviet attack. Barely escaping, she and her crew are redirected to land at Hadley Base, a NASA outpost. Hadley Base, though, soon comes under attack, and the unarmed astronauts...
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February 1975, Apollo 19, the last of the manned lunar modules, has successfully landed. Exhilarated & confident, Commander Gary Lucas & Pilot Charlie Shepherd set out to explore a vast, mysterious depression in the surface of the lunar South Pole. Trouble begins there in the icy darkness, where temperatures reach 334 degrees below zero.
76) Zero-G
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Poised to make history, SpaceVentures, Inc., hovers on the brink of launching the first commercial space flight. And Benjamin 'Tuck' Tucker's skill and reputation have thrust the new company into the forefront in this powerful new space race. A veteran astronaut and national hero, Tuck accepts the coveted honor - and the risk - of piloting the Legacy on her maiden space voyage. The danger is far greater than just the perceived risks. The real threat,...
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Expecting the astronaut's baby! Dr Corinne Carter's job as medical adviser heats up when daredevil Austin Mitchell joins the astronaut training program. And it's soon clear their chemistry is hotter than a Texas summer! For all his cheeky self-confidence, gorgeous Austin makes this relationship-shy doctor feel out of this world. So when their sizzling fling has an unexpected consequence, does Corrine dare to dream of a home and a future with her star-bound...
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Astroneer volume 1
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"When Astroneer Seven plucks a mysterious crystal from Boreas-1, he is catapulted across time and space and starts a chain reaction that could destroy the entire universe! Now, Seven and his ragtag crew of Astroneers must traverse the infinite to get the crystal back to Boreas before it's too late! The countdown has begun..."--
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Years ago, a little boy gazed at the moon, dizzy with the thought that he was looking at a world 200,000 miles away. As he read atlases and library books and kept clippings on astronauts orbiting the moon, he hoped and hoped that they would find a way to land there. And one extraordinary day they did, captured on his flickery TV, like giants bouncing in slow motion. When the boy fell asleep, he dreamed that he walked with them too. In this lyrical,...