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Spaced Out: Teen Sci-fi Set in Space
Space opera, aliens, space exploration or distant planets!
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- Set in a dystopian future, two sisters must find a way to go to the floating city on Venus in order to escape an unlivable earth.
- A graphic novel romance set on the planet Meridian, where superpowers are not uncommon, and the main character is trying to come to terms with his own new powers.
- The sequel to the Darkness Outside Us, this book is a love story set on a spaceship on a rescue mission.
- Two sworn enemies sent on a rescue mission into the loneliness of space. Will they learn to trust each other? Also, is there someone else on their ship?
- Inspired by Bonnie and Clyde, but set in space! Ava and Shane’s use their skills for stealing spaceships to try and thwart a government plot that would devastate their home planets.
- Despite being from entirely different solar systems, Lu and Fassen meet by chance on a new planet Lu is researching, forging a connection lasting years.
Reclaim the Stars
17 Tales Across Realms & Space
This collection features short stories set in all different places, from Earth to other galaxies, with a variety of genres.- Joy is telepathically joined with the wealthy duke Felix through their system’s Kindred program. When Felix is accused of killing his family, he and Joy flee to Earth while searching for answers.
- In the future, teleportation is possible through a process that prints a new body, then destroying the old one. Jessica’s supposed to be teleporting to reunite with her parents when something goes very wrong, leaving her alone on a strange planet.
- When the end of the world comes sooner than expected, the president’s daughter Leigh is one of the few survivors who make it off the planet in the ship Lazarus. On a journey they never expected, Leigh and her fellow passengers must try to survive.
- Zero gets his chance to join one of the Saba adventurer guilds when he accidentally comes in possession of a magical item. Using this artifact, Zero and his friends set out on a quest to find an even more powerful artifact.
- Tired of everyone accepting that cube-shaped spaceships abduct teens, Liam assembles a group of high schoolers to plan a heist that involves breaking into the spaceships.
- The world believes Hannah is transporting whales to a new planet, but she’s really Kim, a member of the Crusaders with a secret agenda. When one of the whales starts communicating, Kim wonders if maybe she’s unknowingly become part of a larger plot.
- Inspired by Les Miserables, this book is the start of a trilogy featuring three teens from very different backgrounds living on one of the planets colonized by humans after the end of the world.
- When Riley and Jaideep accidentally transport themselves, and a teen from the 1800s, into an unknown place and time, they must evade capture by the Continuity Agency while trying to set things right and save Earth.
- Pan isn’t very popular after helping her best friend, Princess Tara, escape an unwanted marriage. Five years later, Pan gets the chance to join a secret group who compete to become cosmoknights in order to save princesses from similar fates.
- Imagine waking up in space with no memory of how you got there. When that exact thing happens to DJ, Noa, and Jenny, they try to find their way home while experiencing adventures, danger, and growing romance.
- Training with Carlisle Academy is supposed to help Abyan achieve her goal of fighting against the space vampires known as the Nosaru, until it seems like the school may actually be hiding sinister activity.
- Princess Andromeda is a cyborg who has no interest in playing politics. When her spaceship is seized by pirates, she hides her true identity by pretending to be a mechanic – only to find herself growing close with the pirate crew.
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