Welford, Ross
Summary: Twelve-year-old Al Chaudhury discovers his late dad's time machine and travels back to 1984 with his pet hamster to prevent the go-kart accident that killed his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD WELYoss
Summary: The most successful and controversial Cuban Science Fiction writer of all time, Yoss (aka José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) is known for his acerbic portraits of the island under Communism. In his bestselling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the nineties, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Restless Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YOSBenford, Gregory
Summary: In a futuristic galactic empire, a man and his robot wife escape from their enemies by transferring their minds into the bodies of animals. By the author of Sailing Bright Eternity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBenford, Gregory
Summary: In this thematic sequel to Gregory Benford's award-winning bestseller Timescape , a history professor finds that he is able to travel back to 1968, the year he was sixteen--here, he finds a slew of mentors with the same ability, including Robert Heinlein, Albert Einstein, and Philip K. Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SAGA Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBolts, Russ
Summary: "Joe and Rob find themselves face to face with the magical Dragon Bots who have invaded their planet. Can they convince the Dragon Bots to become friends, or will the Dragon Bots fry their circuits?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BOLBenford, Gregory
Summary: A human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by the discovery of an immense bowl-shaped structure in space that leads to hostile alien encounters and profound revelations about humanity's place in the universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2012
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Summary: "Humanity has established a SETI library on the moon to decipher and interpret the many messages from alien societies we have discovered. The most intriguing messages are from complete artificial intelligences. Ruth, a beginner Librarian, must talk to alien minds who have aggressive agendas of their own. She opens doors into strangeness beyond imagination and in her quest for understanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENBenford, Gregory
Summary: "Science fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape) continue the thrilling adventure of a human expedition to another star system that is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure cupping a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths. And which, tantalizingly, is on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: S.F. Benford 2014Benford, Gregory
Summary: Follows the discovery of a complex life form during the first successful manned mission to Mars, a finding that poses significant questions about life on worlds beyond our solar system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aspect/Warner Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENCross, Julie.
Summary: After his girlfriend Holly is fatally shot during a violent struggle, nineteen-year-old Jackson uses his supernatural abilities and travels back in time two years, where he falls in love with Holly all over again, learns that his father is a spy, and discovers powerful enemies of time who will stop at nothing to recruit him for their own purposes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CROMacaulay, Rose
Summary: "A government ministry decides to increase national brain-power, and stave off the coming idiocracy, through a program of compulsory selective breeding. The propaganda efforts in support of this endeavor are amazing. The book ends on an ambiguous note: Is the victory of "human perverseness, human stupidity, human self-will" over autocratic bureaucracy a triumph? Or not? Macaulay - a beloved...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACSummary: Offers science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors, including Alix E. Harrow, Stephen Graham Jones, chosen by editor R. F. Kuang.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: "A female P.I. comes into conflict with a ruthless gangster just as both humans and robots agitate for independence in a domed Argentinian colony in Antarctica."--Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACapetta, Amy Rose
Summary: "Ari Helix has been running her whole life. A fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer Corporation, she's always had to hide who she was. Until now. When Ari crash-lands on Old Earth and pulls a magic sword from its ancient resting place, she is revealed to be the forty-second reincarnation of King Arthur. The wizard Merlin has been waiting for centuries for a king...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC CAPLovegrove, James
Summary: Months after Inara leaves Serenity, Mal and the crew finally learn the reason for her sudden departure: she is dying of a terminal illness. It is Kiehl's Myeloma, a form of cancer that's supposedly incurable, and Inara has very little time left. In hopes of a cure, the Serenity crew must infiltrate a notorious Alliance prison planet and rescue a disgraced and incarcerated scientist. -- adapted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOVSummary: Contains the seventh season of the science fiction television program "Star Trek: Voyager" in which the crew of the Federation starship "Voyager" joins forces with the rebel Maquis ship in order to make it out of the Delta Quadrant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STACapetta, Amy Rose
Summary: Resets the Arthurian legend in outer space, with King Arthur reincarnated as seventeen-year-old Ari, a female king whose quest is to stop a tyrranical corporate government, aided by a teenaged Merlin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CAPIrvine, Alexander (Alexander C.)
Summary: "Things go very wrong when Tony Stark and Dr. Bruce Banner begin work on a global peacekeeping system, putting Earth's Mightiest Heroes--Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye--to the ultimate test. The evil Ultron threatens the fate of humankind, and it is up to the Avengers to stop his terrible plans. Uneasy friendships and unexpected action make for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC IRVLovegrove, James
Summary: "The first original novel tying into the critically acclaimed and much-missed Firefly series from creator Joss Whedon. The Battle of Serenity Valley was the turning point that led the Independents to their defeat at the hands of the Alliance. Yet the Browncoats had held the valley for weeks against all odds, before being ordered to lay down their arms. Command stated they refused to send in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SCI.FIC LOVSummary: Contains the sixth season of the science fiction television program "Star Trek: Voyager" in which the crew of the Federation starship "Voyager" joins forces with the rebel Maquis ship in order to make it out of the Delta Quadrant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STASummary: "In this second volume of a two-volume set gathering the best American science fiction from the tumultuous 1960s, R. A. Lafferty's quirky and utterly original Past Master, an unjustly neglected classic, imagines Sir Thomas More transported to the colony Astrobe in the year 2535, where he is made president of a future Utopia. In Picnic on Paradise, Joanna Russ presents her indelible heroine,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AMECottingham, Kayla
Summary: This summer is going to get gory. Two years ago, a small percentage of the population underwent a transformation known as the Hollowing. Those affected were only able to survive by consuming human flesh. The people who went without quickly became feral, turning on their friends and family. Luckily, scientists were able to create a synthetic version of human meat that would satisfy their hunger....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Kaya, raised in the undersea, high-tech world of Atlantis, has always been fascinated by the legends about life above the water. Despite the government's insistence that they're only stories, she can't help but dream about the Sun People, and when a group of officials known as Erasers move to bury those legends for good, Kaya sets out to the surface to uncover the truth once and for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD MONBradley, Marion Zimmer.
Summary: King Carolin and Varzil Ridenow, a Keeper, join forces to bring peace to Darkover, but an enemy from Carolin's past, caught in the grip of a compulsion spell, is desperate to bring about the death of these two courageous men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2004