Yoshitake, Shinsuke
Summary: Troubled because her brother has told her that the future of Earth is bleak, a little girl goes to her grandmother who assures her that there are many possible futures and encourages her to use her imagination to explore some of the alternatives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2020
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Summary: Seventeen-year-old Nat and her hacker brother Sam have come to Hawaii for their parents' Final Week. Global warming has devastated the planet, and the disintegrating society that remains is run by "corporates" who keep the population complacent through a constant diet of "pharma." The few Americans who stil live well also live long -- so long that older adults, like Nat's parents, blow out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Sheep 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MILEllis, Warren
Summary: "Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you. There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: Foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about geoengineering and smart cities and ways to evade Our Coming Doom; strategic forecasters are spook futurists, who think about geopolitical upheaval and drone warfare and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLBasu, Samit
Summary: "The City Inside, a near-future epic by the internationally celebrated Samit Basu, pulls no punches as it comes for your anxieties about society, government, the environment, and our world at large-yet never loses sight of the hopeful potential of the future. "They'd known the end times were coming but hadn't known they'd be multiple choice." Joey is a Reality Controller in near future Delhi....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tordotcom/A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BASBeckett, L. X.
Summary: Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation, the first to be raised free of the troubles of the late-21st century. Now she works as a public defender to help troubled individuals with anti-social behavior. That's how she met Luciano Pox. But there's more to him than being a lightning rod for controversy. Rubi has to find out why the governments of the world want to bring Luce into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOR 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BECKiffel-Alcheh, Jamie
Summary: You've gone on adventures with Cruz Coronado and his fellow recruits as they communicated with whales using the Universal Cetacean Communicator, camouflaged themselves using the Lumagine shadow badge, and deployed octopods to make speedy escapes. Now dive further into the near-future world of Explorer Academy by learning about the real-life scientific discoveries that inspired the gadgets. This...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J 601.12 KIFSummary: "For many Americans, imagining a bright future has always been an act of resistance. A People's Future of the United States presents twenty never-before-published stories by a diverse group of writers, featuring voices both new and well-established. Thesestories imagine their characters fighting everything from government surveillance, to corporate cities, to climate change disasters, to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEOChisholm, Jerri.
Summary: Four generations ago, the Earth was rendered uninhabitable and those who remained were forced underground. In Compound Eleven, the hierarachy of floors is everything and on Eve Hamilton's floor, they fight. When she meets a boy from the top floor, Eve is no longer content to just survive, she is ready to fight for freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction ChisolmFlint, Eric
Summary: "Captain Pausert just can't catch a break! First, he became the mortal enemy of his fiancée, his home planet, the Empire-and even the Worm World, the darkest threat to mankind in all of space. All because he helped rescue three slave children from their masters. Of course, these three young women were the universally feared Witches of Karres-but how was he to know that?! And after he defeated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLIWheaton, Mark
Summary: "A woman tries to find her way home in a world decimated by earthquakes, but there are people determined to stop her and harvest her DNA. Alice wakes up in the Los Angeles Quake Zone in 2025 having no idea how she got there. As her memories slowly return, she finds she's being hunted by several armed groups intent on capturing her alive. At the same time, Este, a survivor of the quakes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WHELostetter, Marina J.
Summary: "Deep in the heart of an alien mountain range, the supercomputer I.C.C. has lain dormant, its ships alert, for eons, Now, after one hundred thousand years, the AI is awakening. Someone is roaming the convoy's halls - someone that isn't human. The planet, Noumenon - created by the megastructure known as the Web - is too young and brutal to have evolved intelligent life. Its surface is bombarded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOSHughes, Rian
Summary: At Jodrell Band in England Observatory in England, a radio telescope has detected a mysterious signal of extraterrestrial origin--a message that may be the first communication from an interstellar civilization. Has humanity made first contact? Is the signal itself a form of alien life? Could it be a threat? If so, how will the people of Earth respond? Jack Fenwick, artificial intelligence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUGRobinson, Kim Stanley
Summary: "From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction RobinsonGalvan, Ana
Summary: "A science-fiction graphic novella grounded in a familiar experience for most: spending an afternoon with our best pals over a burger and fries. But this joint has something more special than a Happy Meal: the "Once Party" menu. The "Once Party" menu, for ages 11 and up, can only be ordered once (of course). But there's a catch: not everyone who does gets the special prize. Those who do, go to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 GALLiu, Cixin
Summary: Presents a collection of speculative science fiction tales that envision the future and reimagine the past in settings ranging from the coal mines of China to the edges of frontier space.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020
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Summary: Billy Chan and his friends have been transported 5,000 years into the future where the evil Dragon of Death has become ruler of Dragon City. Humans now live to serve the dragon population, and it's no different for Billy, Charlotte, Dylan, and Ling-Fei. After losing contact with their own dragons, they're determined to track them down in this new city, even if it means putting their own lives...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TSASummary: "NEW STORIES AND ESSAYS FROM TOP AUTHORS AND EXPERT SCIENTISTS. Explorations of how interstellar travel may affect humanity by best-selling authors and scientists. The stars will change us. STELLARIS: PEOPLE OF THE STARS is a collection of original science fiction stories and nonfiction essays speculating about humanity's far-term expansion into the universe beyond the limits of our solar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC STEAnthony, David
Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC ANTCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTThao, Dustin
Summary: Julie Clarke, de diecisiete años, tiene todo su futuro planeado: marcharse de su pequeño pueblo junto a su novio, Sam, ir a la universidad en la ciudad, pasar un verano en Japón. Pero entonces Sam muere. Y todo cambia. Desesperada por escucharle una vez más, Julie llama al móvil de Sam para escuchar la grabación de su buzón de voz. Y Sam coge el teléfono.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ediciones Kiwiw 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH THAThomas, M. J.
Summary: A scroll Great-Uncle Solomon, an archaeologist, found near the Dead Sea send Peter, nine, and Mary, ten, to the first moment of Creation and to the Garden of Eden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WorthyKids/Ideals 2017