Larry Niven
1) Ringworld
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Best Novel, Ringworld remains a favorite among science fiction readers.
The artifact is a vast circular ribbon of matter, some 180 million miles across, with a sun at its center. Pierson's puppeteers—strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens—discovered this "Ringworld" in a hitherto unexplored part of the galaxy. Curious about the immense structure, but frightened by the prospect of
...3) Rainbow Mars
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[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
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From the 31st century, scientist Hanville Svetz travels back in time to collect life specimens from Mars and Earth before they become extinct. A novella and five stories by the author of Destiny's Road.
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2016.
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Aros of Azteca, a swordsman, and Neoloth-Pteor, a sorcerer, are deadly enemies who have been fighting for fifteen years. But when the princess Tahlia is kidnapped, Aros must pretend to be a lost princeling and infiltrate the deadliest cabal of necromancers in the world. To save the princess and prevent the most powerful and diabolical spell ever created from destroying the world, he needs Neoloth's help. They can't trust each other. They will betray...
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CoDominion universe. Second Empire volume 3
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[1993]
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Sequel to; The Mote in God's Eye.
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[2005]
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The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit intelligent technology. But by some miscalculation they have landed in another solar system and must shape the gas giant planet Harlequin's...
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Heorot series volume 3
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[2020]
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"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...
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Ringworld series volume 4
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[2004]
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When a powerful new weapon threatens the planet of Ringworld, a protector, an exile with the ability to speak with animals, and a native with a mysterious past assist explorer Louis Wu on his quest to save Ringworld from interplanetary war.
11) Scatterbrain
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[2003]
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"Now, ten years later, Scatterbrain collects an equally engaging assortment of Larry Niven's latest work, all in one captivating volume. Here are choice excerpts from several of his most recent novels, including The Ringworld Throne and Destiny's Road, as well as numerous short stories, nonfiction articles, interviews, editorials, collaborations, and correspondence.
True to its title, Scatterbrain roams all over a wide variety of fascinating topics,...
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Ringworld series volume 5
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[2012]
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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. "Something" must justify the blood and treasure that have been spent. If the fallen civilization of the Ringworld can no longer be despoiled of its secrets, the Puppeteers...
13) Destiny's road
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[1997]
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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.
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1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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A new place is being built, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing millions of miles, stronger than any planet before it. There is gravity, and with high walls and its proximity to the sun, a livable new planet that is three million times the area of the Earth can be formed. We can start again
15) Escape from hell
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[2009]
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Having recently escaped from hell, Allen Carpenter is haunted by the imprisonment of unfairly tortured souls and partners with suicide-victim poet Sylvia Plath for a mission to return to hell and rescue the damned.
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CoDominion universe. Second Empire volume 1
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[1974]
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In the distant future, when man has conquered space and colonized the planets, a space ship arrives from an alien world that threatens the future of man.