Books with title Interstellar

Once upon a planetoid,amid her tools and sprockets,a girl named Cinderella dreamedof fixing fancy rockets.With a little help from her fairy godrobot, Cinderella is going to the ball. But when the prince's ship has mechanical trouble, someone will have to zoom to the rescue! Readers will thank their lucky stars for this irrepressible fairy tale retelling, its independent heroine, and its stellar happy ending.

When three unusually attractive young adults rent the summer cottage next door, Barney's boring vacation at the beach seemingly takes a turn for the better. However, after the neighbors unwittingly reveal their extraterrestrial identities, the board game they have taught him becomes a real-life battle, and Barney must outsmart the aliens to save Earth from destruction. The fantastical tale contains some of Sleator's most inventive characters.

When three unusually attractive young adults rent the summer cottage next door, Barney's boring vacation at the beach seemingly takes a turn for the better. However, after the neighbors unwittingly reveal their extraterrestrial identities, the board game they have taught him becomes a real-life battle, and Barney must outsmart the aliens to save Earth from destruction. The fantastical tale contains some of Sleator's most inventive characters.

In 2177, twelve-year-old Meriel Hope solo-jumped into Procyon System with a ship full of dead people aiming straight for Enterprise Station.“Great Story! Great World Building! … engrossing and entertaining, and a plot full of twists and turns... awesome world building and character arcs…!” ***** Madhavi Ghare (Goodeads)Murdered parents and a busted spaceship, that’s what pirates left to Meriel and the orphans from LSM Princess. But pirates didn’t exist, and for the space stations, that defined her as crazy.After ten years of flashbacks, nightmares, and compulsory drugs, Meriel’s past will not stay buried. While searching for a mythical sanctuary called Home, she trips alarms that protect the killers … and the biggest secret in human history.Meriel has only days to untangle the mysteries surrounding her parents’ death or face her own. What she finds can save the far-stars from destruction, but it makes the orphans targets.Again.And this time they will not escape.“...a pilgrimage with a haunted and haunting female character who combines strength and grace in a way that instantly wins the reader over to her perspective and her values, her every cause.” -- Writer's Digest“Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury, early Heinlein, or Alan Dean Foster. Characters who are realistic, not perfect...” ***** Norma Mason (Goodreads)

After eighteen years on the starship Omega Centauri and with the cataclysmic events of Nebula still fresh in her memory, Marie “Ree” Lindbergh has achieved a lifelong dream—to live on Earth.Ree quickly discovers Earth is very different from the old movies she loved to watch on the Omega Centauri. She’s an unwilling celebrity on the news and snubbed by her new schoolmates. Zac, her old friend and new boyfriend, moves to Australia, leaving Ree in America to deal with her own deeply fractured family. An alarming medical discovery only adds to the tension—and sheds some light on how Ree survived the brutal environment while she was held captive.As Ree begins to realize Earth isn’t at all like her dreams, she also finds herself drawn to Jonathan. A newcomer to her school—like Ree herself—Jonathan seems perfect. He’s cute, creative, and unlike Zac, devoted to equality between humans and the often-oppressed Bufoanthroids. He’s also harboring a life-altering secret. The second installment in L.A. Sees’s The Nebula Trilogy, Interstellar continues to explore Ree Lindbergh’s impact on the strained relationship between earthborn humans, Bufoanthroids, and an uncertain future.

In 2177, twelve-year-old Meriel Hope solo-jumped into Procyon System with a ship full of dead people aiming straight for Enterprise Station.“Great Story! Great World Building! … engrossing and entertaining, and a plot full of twists and turns... awesome world building and character arcs…!” ***** Madhavi Ghare (Goodeads)Murdered parents and a busted spaceship, that’s what pirates left to Meriel and the orphans from LSM Princess. But pirates didn’t exist, and for the space stations, that defined her as crazy.After ten years of flashbacks, nightmares, and compulsory drugs, Meriel’s past will not stay buried. While searching for a mythical sanctuary called Home, she trips alarms that protect the killers … and the biggest secret in human history.Meriel has only days to untangle the mysteries surrounding her parents’ death or face her own. What she finds can save the far-stars from destruction, but it makes the orphans targets.Again.And this time they will not escape.“...a pilgrimage with a haunted and haunting female character who combines strength and grace in a way that instantly wins the reader over to her perspective and her values, her every cause.” -- Writer's Digest“Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury, early Heinlein, or Alan Dean Foster. Characters who are realistic, not perfect...” ***** Norma Mason (Goodreads)

Once upon a planetoid,amid her tools and sprockets,a girl named Cinderella dreamedof fixing fancy rockets.With a little help from her fairy godrobot, Cinderella is going to the ball. But when the prince's ship has mechanical trouble, someone will have to zoom to the rescue! Readers will thank their lucky stars for this irrepressible fairy tale retelling, its independent heroine, and its stellar happy ending. Plus, this is a fixed-format version of the book, which looks nearly identical to the print version.

After eighteen years on the starship Omega Centauri and with the cataclysmic events of Nebula still fresh in her memory, Marie “Ree” Lindbergh has achieved a lifelong dream—to live on Earth. Ree quickly discovers Earth is very different from the old movies she loved to watch on the Omega Centauri. She’s an unwilling celebrity on the news and snubbed by her new schoolmates. Zac, her old friend and new boyfriend, moves to Australia, leaving Ree in America to deal with her own deeply fractured family. An alarming medical discovery only adds to the tension—and sheds some light on how Ree survived the brutal environment while she was held captive. As Ree begins to realize Earth isn’t at all like her dreams, she also finds herself drawn to Jonathan. A newcomer to her school—like Ree herself—Jonathan seems perfect. He’s cute, creative, and unlike Zac, devoted to equality between humans and the often-oppressed Bufoanthroids. He’s also harboring a life-altering secret. The second installment in L.A. Sees’s The Nebula Trilogy, Interstellar continues to explore Ree Lindbergh’s impact on the strained relationship between earthborn humans, Bufoanthroids, and an uncertain future.

For Frank Eric Russell, disgraced ex captain in The Free Union’s Space Corps, the offer of a job training pilots in combat techniques for a space going city in need of some protection from its commercial competitors seems like a chance to get his career progression moving forward.But life never works out for Frank, and before long he is in deep trouble. The pilots he is training are rebellious, his boss wants to sell him to the highest bidder for the ransom money, and the local politicians only stop plotting against each other to plot against him.If that wasn’t bad enough, spies, pirates and the most feared man in the whole Galaxy would like to hire his services – or have him killed. The life of an Interstellar Mercenary is full of interest and excitement, if not the promised riches and rewards.Join Frank and his ageing Speedbird scout ship in the latest instalment of his quest for life, liberty, and the pursuit of a reasonable amount of wealth as an acceptable substitute for happiness. An earlier volume, Rogue Pilot, was chosen by a readers' panel to be a Finalist in the 2018 Wishing Shelf Award.