Okorafor, Nnedi
Summary: "It's up to a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier to handle humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador--and prevent mass extinction--in this novel that blends magical realism with high-stakes action. After word gets out on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside of the world's fifth most populous city, chaos ensues. Soon the military, religious leaders,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OKOJane, Emily
Summary: When the spaceships arrive-- and then depart suddenly without a word-- it creates many forms of uncertainty on our planet. When his kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they're aliens, Blaine begins to crack. Half a continent away, Heather watches the massive ships hover overhead and is certain that her life is finally going to start. After twenty catatonic years, Olives is suddenly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Avenue 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JANEmrys, Ruthanna
Summary: "A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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Summary: "Centuries of war with aliens threaten the future of human civilization on earth in this gripping, epic science fiction debut ... We never saw them coming. Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2016
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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Black 2016Liu, Cixin
Summary: "With the scope of Dune and the rousing action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. In Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion--in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2015