Summary: For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspring and cautionary. Whether it's a warning message from a survey ship, a harrowing journey to a new world, or the adventures of well-meaning AI, science fiction inspires the imagination and delivers a lens through which we can view ourselvs and the world around us. With The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Four,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BESReynolds, Alastair
Summary: Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and fall of countless human empires. Now someone is eliminating them--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYReynolds, Alastair
Summary: "A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur-and for humanity-peace is not to be. On the brink of the ceasefire, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal, and left for dead in the ruins of a bunker. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYReynolds, Alastair
Summary: In a far distant future, an enforcement agent named Quillon has been living incognito in the last human city of Spearpoint, working as a pathologist in the district morgue. But when a near-dead angel drops onto his dissecting table, his world is wrenched apart. For the angel is a winged posthuman from Spearpoint's Celestial Levels, and with the dying body comes bad news--to save the angel's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2010
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Summary: "2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity's future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Pub. Group 2005
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Summary: The next generation of the Akinya family crosses interstellar space seeking humanity's future Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary space explorer Eunice and heir to the family empire, is just one among millions on a long one way journey towards a planet they hope to call their new home. For Chiku, the journey is a personal one, undertaken to ensure that the Akinya family achieves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC REYReynolds, Alastair
Summary: One-hundred-and-fifty years from now, the moon and Mars are settled, and colonies stretch all the way out to the edge of the solar system. But something has come to light on the Moon--secrets that could change everything--or tear this near utopia apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2012
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Summary: " The award-winning author of Blue Remembered Earth continues his saga as the next generation of the Akinya family crosses interstellar space seeking humanity's future Chiku Akinya, great granddaughter of the legendary space explorer Eunice and heir to the family empire, is just one among millions on a long one way journey towards a planet they hope to call their new home. For Chiku, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REYKawahara, Reki
Summary: Having cleared the first and second floors of Aincrad at great cost, Kirito, Asuna, and the rest of the players ascend to the third floor. Tenuous new allies await them--most crucially, Kizmel, the elven knight. Kizmel is supposed to be a minor NPC with low-level AI, but she soon reveals herself to be much more. With new allies come new complications, though, and the elves of the vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen On 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAWWolfe, Gene
Summary: A sequel to "A Borrowed Man" is set in a future world of artificial intelligence where a clone is loaned out to a little girl before discovering that his original self, a mystery writer, is still alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLBrewer, Gene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREWolfe, Gene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Doherty Associates 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLBrewer, Gene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BREYee, F. C.
Summary: The discovery of Yun, a young Avatar, brought stability to the four nations until Earth Kingdom-born Kyoshi, Yun's friend and servant, demonstrated remarkable bending during a mission to the South Pole. When growing unrest among her allies turned to violence, Kyoshi was forced to flee the Avatar mansion with her fiery friend Rangi, taking little more than the metal war fans and headdress her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet books 2019
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YEECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC YEEDoucette, Gene
Summary: The whateverpocalypse. That's what Toure, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waking up one morning to find himself seemingly the only person left in the city. Once he finds Robbie and Carol, two equally disoriented Harvard freshmen, he realizes he isn't alone, but the name sticks: Whateverpocalypse. But it doesn't explain where everyone went. It doesn't explain how the city...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOUWolfe, Gene.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLSummary: Captain Jonathan Archer leads the crew of the starship Enterprise in humanity's first contact with a myriad of alien species.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STALee, Mackenzi
Summary: Gamora arrives on Torndune-- a once-lush planet that has been strip-mined for the power source beneath its surface-- with a mission: collect the heart of the planet. Her adopted sister Nebula is in hot pursuit, determined to claim the planet's heart and shame her sister. Each allies herself with a faction on the planet in order to gain access to the massive diggers capable of drilling to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEELee, Stan
Summary: "From Stan Lee, the pop culture legend behind Marvel's The Avengers, Black Panther, X-Men, Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, and Iron Man, comes a major literary event featuring two heroic teenagers-one born with extraordinary gifts, one unwillingly transformed. Together they can change the world . . . or put it in the destructive hands of a danger beyond imagination"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEELanders, Ace.
Summary: Darth Maul's mission : To defeat the Republic once and for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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Summary: "The galaxy is in trouble, and it's up to Luke Skywalker and his friends to defeat Darth Vader and the Empire. It's the adventure of a lifetime filled with action, laughs, Wookies, and more!" -- page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2016
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Summary: With the whole galaxy falling apart, it's up to Anakin, Obi-Wan, Yoda, and the rest of the Jedi Knights to save the day. But Palpatine needs help and asks Anakin to join the dark side. Will Anakin become the greatest Jedi Knight, or will he become the galaxy's biggest bully.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Plus, Call number: JE LANStewart, Trenton Lee.
Summary: Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2008