fiction / science fiction / high tech

"Generations after leaving earth, a starship draws near to the planet that may serve as a new home world for those on board. But the journey has brought unexpected changes and their best laid plans may not be enough to survive."--Provided by publisher.

"Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate. Thora was once a member of the interplanetary elite, but since her prophetic delusions helped mobilize a revolt on Orem, she's been banished to the farthest reaches of space, because of the risk that her very presence could revive unrest. Upon arrival, the team finds an extraordinary crystalline planet, laden with dark matter. Then a crew member is murdered and Thora mysteriously disappears"--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..."--Front flap.

The United States and a coalition from Russia, India, and Brazil, race to reach an unknown space object hurtling toward Earth and claim it as their own, but they arrive to discover the object is an alien spacecraft sent out on a mission to find help for its civilization.

Earth is no longer humanity's only home and new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between, and in the year 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future, and an unexpected death will change the life of Swan Er Hong, a designer of worlds.