space colonies

"This sweeping reimagining of Les Mis?rables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who are thrown together amidst the looming threat of revolution on the French planet-colony of Laterre"--Provided by publisher.

"On a lunar colony, fifteen-year-old Phaet Theta does the unthinkable and joins the Militia when her mother is imprisoned by the Moon's oppressive government"--Provided by publisher.

"The lunar colony is slowly winding down like a small town circumvented by a new highway. As our hero, the mooncop, makes his daily rounds. His beat grows ever smaller. The population dwindles. A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon"--Amazon.

When Commander Adams and his crew set out in the year 2257 to investigate the disappearance of a human colony on the planet Altair-4, they are shocked to discover two survivors who have managed to evade the evil force that roams the planet.

"Dashiell Gibson, who lives on Moon Base Alpha, has to solve a murder of one of the moon's most prominent doctors"--Provided by publisher.

"When young lovers Amy and Elder and the other passengers of the spaceship Godspeed finally land on Centauri-Earth and start to colonize the new world, they encounter pterodactyl-like monsters and the threat of unseen aliens"--Provided by publisher.

"In 2041 twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is a resident of Moon Base Alpha, and at the moment he is faced with a number of problems: coping with the nasty Sjoberg twins, finding out how the commander of the base has managed to disappear from a facility no bigger than a soccer field, and dealing with the alien Zan who communicates with him telepathically from afar--and who is hiding a secret which may threaten the whole Earth"--Provided by publisher.

"The year is 2221, and humans have colonized a planet called Thetis in the Silver Foot Galaxy. After a tragic accident kills dozens of teenage colonists, Thetis's leaders are desperate to repopulate. So Earth sends the Mayflower 2-a state-of-the-art spaceship-across the universe to bring 177 new homesteaders to the colony. For Jonah Lincoln, an orphaned teen who has bounced between foster homes and spenttime on the streets of Cleveland, the move to Thetis is a chance to reinvent himself, to be strong and independent and brave, the way he could never be on Earth. But his dreams go up in smoke when their ship crash-lands killing half the passengers and leaving the rest stranded--not on Thetis, but on its cruel and unpopulated moon, Achilles"--Publisher provided.

Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.

What it might be like to live a lifetime in space? This forward-looking book takes readers from current technology to what innovations in technology are being pursued to support living for years beyond Earth. Amazing artwork illustrates the scientific possibilities of living on other planets, sleeper starships, rotating megastructures, and even modifying humans!.