Williamson, Michael Z.
Summary: The Prescots were just Welsh coal miners - until they found the technology needed to exploit the subsurface ores of entire planets. They are the richest people in the universe, having more money that most planetary governments and effectively unlimited resources, but the only thing that may be bigger than their wealth is their number of enemies. Ripple Creek Security provides them with highly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2010
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Summary: "Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he's learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVOrwell, George
Summary: En un mundo donde la guerra es la paz, la libertad es la esclavitud y la ignorancia es la fuerza, el Hermano Mayor tiene ojos por todas partes. Las vidas de los ciudadanos están vigiladas y cada decisión se analiza al milímetro. Winston Smith, encargado de reescribir la historia para el gobierno, no puede escapar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH ORWNewman, Sandra
Summary: London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceana. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. Under the ideology of IngSoc and the rule of the Party and its leader Big Brother, Julia is a model citizen - cheerfully cynical, believing in nothing and caring not at all about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWBradbury, Ray
Summary: In Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires but start them--to burn books. It's a time when trivial information is valued and true knowledge perceived as dangerous and subversive. Guy Montag is a fireman with a wife who's goading him to work harder so they could afford another television set. When Montag befriends their neighbor Clarisse, whose love for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2004
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BRAHuxley, Aldous
Summary: Towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society--and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Everyman's Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SF HUXBrown, Dale
Summary: In the spring of 2017, the U.S. economy is rebounding under President Stacy Anne Barbeau, the country's first female president. But her leadership is about to be severely tested: Russian president Gennadiy Gryzlov has sent Special Troops, disguised as pro-Russian activists, into Ukraine and Moldova. Though NATO is outraged, its response is tepid. Refusing to let Russian aggression go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Brown 2015Doctorow, Cory
Summary: "It's thirty years from now. We're making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can't let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DOCRobinson, Kim Stanley.
Summary: Environmental aide Charlie Quibler is frustrated in his attempts to prove to the government that global warming has reached cataclysmic levels, a situation that is complicated when a promising technology is exploited for private interests.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2004
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SF Robinson 2004Wilson, Robert Charles
Summary: As the United States struggles back to prosperity in the 22nd Century, the dashing Captain Commongold faces treachery and intrigue while being at fatal odds with the hierarchy of the Dominion for his beliefs in the doctrines of the Secular Ancients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Wilson 2009Bova, Ben
Summary: Recruited by an ambitious senatorial candidate, astronomer Jake Ross is directed to promote a new innovation for cheap energy, a situation that is complicated by the technology's hazards and the extreme tactics used by both political rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOVButler, Octavia E.
Summary: Laura Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war racks the North American continent and an ultra-conservative religious crusader becomes president
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTMcDevitt, Jack.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPrism 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDSteele, Allen M.
Summary: A group of political dissidents and their families escape the repressive world of twenty-first-century Earth to seek new lives as interstellar colonists, placing themselves in cold sleep for a two-century odyssey to the habitable world of Coyote.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STERobinson, Kim Stanley.
Summary: After years of denial and non-action, a near-future Earth faces a crossroad when it is threatened with the dire implications of global warming, an environmental crisis that ironically could unleash a devastating Ice Age on the planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Robinson 2005Higgins, C. A. (Caitlin A.)
Summary: "C. A. Higgins's acclaimed novel Lightless fused suspenseful storytelling, high-caliber scientific speculation, and richly developed characters into a stunning science fiction epic. Now the dazzling Supernova heightens the thrills and deepens the hauntingexploration of technology and humanity--and the consequences that await when the two intersect. Once Ananke was an experimental military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIGOrwell, George
Summary: All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones's Manor Farm into Animal Farm, a wholly democratic society built on the credo that all animals are created equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RIN CW #3Wilson, F. Paul (Francis Paul)
Summary: A revolutionary leads the overthrow of a repressive government.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Infrapress 2001