interplanetary voyages

Presents four stories in comic-book format based on the popular Halo video game.

A high school senior wins a space suit in a soap jingle contest, takes a last walk wearing "Oscar" before cashing him in for college tuition, and suddenly finds himself on a space odyssey.

"Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. 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"--Provided by publisher.

"A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle..."--Provided by publisher.

After the Earth explodes, thirteen-year-old Kay, the sole human survivor, is inadvertently rescued by an alien space-trash collector named Arizona and his cybernetic pet Euclid. The three travel through the galaxy having humorous adventures together while searching for a place to call home.

When a misunderstanding lands Ellie, an enthusiastic, bumbling teenager, in the astronaut training program for the first human mission to Mars, she is determined to prove her worth.

"A book detailing depictions of interstellar manned space travel in science fiction as well as the real science behind it."--Provided by publisher.

"Lucas Adebayo grew up on a small mining ship in the asteroid belt, but wants to join the Navy and become the best pilot in the galaxy. The Navy has never accepted a Belter cadet before, but Lucas's skills secure him a place on the training ship, the Orpheus. Life in the Navy couldn't be more different than life in the Belt, and Lucas struggles to find his place. As a Belter, he's an outsider among his peers; as a Navy cadet, he doesn't quite fit in at home anymore, either. Lucas is caught between the worlds of his past and his future when a Belter rebellion puts everyone's lives at risk. Only he can lead the way to peace"--From the publisher's web site.

"The mysterious Mandalorian, a lone gunfighter in the outer reaches of the galaxy, walks a thin line between right and wrong far from the authority of the New Republic, in a graphic novel-style retelling of the television series, featuring final frames and dialogue from the series in . . . color"--BTCat.

"Padawan Reath Silas is being sent from the cosmopolitan galactic capital of Coruscant to the undeveloped frontier--and he couldn't be less happy about it. He'd rather stay at the Jedi Temple, studying the archives. But when the ship he's traveling on is knocked out of hyperspace in a galactic-wide disaster, Reath finds himself at the center of the action. The Jedi and their traveling companions find refuge on what appears to be an abandoned space station. But then strange things start happening, leading the Jedi to investigate the truth behind the mysterious station, a truth that could end in tragedy. . ."--Provided by publisher.