Author
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Call # |
Title |
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FEE |
Feeling Very Strange
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Slipstream anthology of science fiction.
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Adams, Douglas |
ADA |
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
A man whisked off the earth just before it is destroyed, then taken on a madcap tour of the universe.
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Adlington, L. J. |
ADL |
The Diary of Pelly D. |
When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.
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Asimov, Isaac |
ASI |
Foundation |
A single planet faces the power of an entire galaxy.
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Barry, Max |
BAR |
Jennifer Government
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In the near future, the world is run by giant corporations.
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Bechard, Margaret |
BEC |
Spacer and Rat |
Jack's predictable existence on Freedom space station is transformed when Kit, the Earthie rat, enters his life and enlists him and a sensitive robot in an effort to outwit the Company.
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Bell, Hilari |
BEL |
A Matter of Profit |
A young Vivitare soldier and his sister try to escape to freedom and solve the dangerous mystery of the T’Chin.
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Bradbury, Ray |
BRA |
Fahrenheit 451 |
In a world where books are outlawed – “firemen” burn books – a handful of rebels try to keep written culture alive.
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Burgess, Anthony |
BUR |
A Clockwork Orange |
In the future, the Lower Orders are in ascendence and happy hooligans roam the London streets, bashing senior citizens in the eyes with bicycle chains. |
Card, Orson Scott |
CAR |
Ender’s shadow |
The story of the precocious general at the Battle School, named Bean, who later became Ender’s right hand, his strategist, and his friend. Prequel to the Ender Trilogy.
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Clarke, Arthur C. |
CLA |
2001: A Space Odyssey |
A fully conscious computer takes over a space ship.
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Clements, Andrew |
CLE |
Things Not Seen |
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.
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Crichton, Michael |
CRI |
The Andromeda Strain |
For five days, American scientists struggle to identify and control a deadly new form of life.
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Dickinson, Peter |
DIC |
Eva |
After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee.
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Engdahl, S. L.
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ENG |
Enchantress from the Stars |
When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system.
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Farmer, Nancy |
FAR |
The House of the Scorpion |
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
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Gaiman, Neil |
GAI |
American Gods
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Goodman, Alison |
GOO |
Singing the Dogstar Blues |
In a future Australia, the saucy eighteen-year-old daughter of a newscaster and a sperm donor teams up with a hermaphrodite from the planet Choria in a time travel adventure. |
Halam, Ann |
HAL |
Dr. Franklin’s Island |
When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.
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Heinlein, Robert |
HEI |
Stranger in a Strange Land |
A man raised by Martians becomes the charismatic leader of a new religion.
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Herbert, Frank |
HER |
Dune |
The first book in the chronicles of the war-torn, giant sandworm-infested planet.
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Ishiguro, Kazuo |
ISH |
Never Let Me Go |
Thirty-one-year-old Kathy, along with old friends from Hailsham, a private school in England, are forced to face the truth about their childhood when they all come together again.
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Le Guin, Ursula K. |
LEG |
The Lathe of Heaven |
In the future a man discovers his dreams are out of control. Whatever he dreams becomes reality.
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Lewis, C. S. |
LEW |
Out of the Silent Planet |
A kidnapped philologist meets ancient civilizations on Mars.
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Miller, W. M. |
MIL |
A Canticle for Leibowitz |
Many years after a nuclear war, scholars seeking the old learning come to a monastery where much knowledge has been preserved.
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Reeve, Philip |
REE |
Mortal Engines |
Tom, a third class apprentice in a distant future in which technology has been lost and tiered cities move about the Earth on caterpillar tracks, often absorbing smaller locales, has many dangerous adventures after being pushed off London by Thaddeus Valentine, a historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic weapon.
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Robinson, Kim Stanley
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ROB |
Forty Signs of Rain |
A Senate staffer and his scientist wife battle a global warming disaster. |
Sleator, William |
SLE |
House of Stairs |
Five fifteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response.
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Vonnegut, Kurt |
VON |
Cat’s Cradle |
A writer decides to interview the dysfunctional children of a brilliant, socially inept scientist, and inadvertently destroys the world.
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Wells, H. G. |
WEL |
The Invisible Man |
A brilliant scientist’s discovery makes him invisible. And insane.
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Westerfeld, Scott |
WES |
Uglies |
Tally is faced with a difficult choice when her new friend Shay decides to risk life on the outside rather than submit to the forced operation that turns sixteen year old girls into gorgeous beauties, and realizes that there is a whole new side to the pretty world that she doesn't like.
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Willis, Connie |
WIL |
To Say Nothing of the Dog; or, How We Found the Bishop’s Bird Stump at Last
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With a title like that, what more do you need? |
Zamyatin,Yevgeny |
ZAM |
We |
In a future world without freedom, where people are numbers, a citizen discovers the disruptive power of love. An inspiration for Orwell’s 1984.
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