Kiffel-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 KIFMillet, Lydia
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 MILSummary: "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 STEKrznaric, Roman
Summary: "This book is a call to save ourselves and our planet by targeting the root of our inaction: extreme short-sightedness. It outlines six practical ways we can retrain our brains to save our future and create a "time rebellion"-shifting our allegiance from our generation only to all humanity, present and future."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2020
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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 LOSMacAskill, William
Summary: "One of the most stunning achievements of moral philosophy is something we take for granted: moral universalism, or the idea that every human has equal moral worth. In What We Owe the Future, Oxford philosopher William MacAskill demands that we go a step further, arguing that people not only have equal moral worth no matter where or how they live, but also no matter when they live. This idea...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 171 MACNiedzviecki, Hal
Summary: A roller-coaster tour through our obsession with the future - and what's at stake when we neglect our present. Tech bloggers livecast the launch of the latest Kindle, crowds form serpentine lines outside of Apple stores on the eve of new iPhone releases, stock markets surge and recede on rumours of what Intel and Microsoft have in the pipeline, and, on college campuses across the country,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 NIEYoshitake, 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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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE YOSTsang, Katie
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 TSAFarrier, David
Summary: The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his medition on climate change...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 FARBasu, 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 BECEllis, 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 ELLChisholm, 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 ChisolmWheaton, 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 WHEZep
Summary: "In the year 2119, instantaneous transportation technology has altered almost every facet of human civilization, improving countless industries and practices while also leaving behind a growing population who can't afford to keep up. But some people still prefer the traditional ways of getting from point A to point B, including Tristan Keys, a writer who refuses to embrace the technological...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnetic Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: OVS 741.5 ZEPSummary: "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 PEOFlint, 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 FLIHarari, Yuval N
Summary: "Over the past century humankind has managed to do the impossible and rein in famine, plague, and war. This may seem hard to accept, but, as Harari explains in his trademark style--thorough, yet riveting--famine, plague and war have been transformed from incomprehensible and uncontrollable forces of nature into manageable challenges. For the first time ever, more people die from eating too much...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 909 HARMacAskill, William
Summary: The future is in our hands. As Oxford philosopher William MacAskill shows here by explaining "longtermism," we can make the world better for billions of years to come or consign future generations to oblivion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 171.8 MACChristian, David
Summary: "The future is uncertain, a bit spooky, possibly dangerous, maybe wonderful. We cope with this never-ending uncertainty by telling stories about the future, future stories. How do we construct those stories? Where is the future, the place where we set those stories? Can we trust our future stories? And what sort of futures do they show us? This book is about future stories and future thinking,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.49 CHRHughes, 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 HUGGalvan, 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