Neuvel, Sylvain
Summary: "26 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. 9 years ago: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. Today: with the remainder of the giant robot found and assembled, every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUPalmer, Dexter Clarence
Summary: The compelling story of a couple living in the wake of a personal tragedy. She is a star employee of an online dating company, while he is a physicist, performing experiments that, if ever successful, may have unintended consequences, altering the nature of their lives and perhaps of reality itself. Rebecca Wright has gotten her life back, finding her way out of grief and depression following a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PALNeuvel, Sylvain
Summary: "In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. As an adult, Dr. Rose Franklin led the team that uncovered the rest of the body parts which together form Themis: a powerful robot of mysterious alien origin. She, along with linguist Vincent, pilot Kara, and the unnamed Interviewer, protected the Earth from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEUFlynn, Michael (Michael F.)
Summary: Tom, a contemporary historian and his physicist girlfriend Sharon become interested in a one small town in Germany that disappeared in 1349 and was never resettled. Father Deitrich the priest of the village is the first contact between humanity and an alien race from a distant star when their interstellar ship crashes in the nearby forest in 1348, the year the Black Death spread across Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Book 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLYKosmatka, Ted
Summary: "Eric Argus has one last chance. His earlier scientific work-- groundbreaking and infamous--jeopardized his reputation and threatened his sanity. But an old university friend hires him at Hansen Research, a Boston laboratory that provides researchers a probationary period of free reign. Argus has a final opportunity to regain his standing and renew his faith in science. He replicates Feynman's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOSSawyer, Robert J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWWalton, David
Summary: When physicist Ryan Oronzi's development of military applications of Higgs projector technology leads to the return of the varcolac, which seeks to destroy human life, Sandra and Alex Kelley strive to defeat it
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pyr, an imprint of Prometheus Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALCornwell, Patricia Daniels
Summary: In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CORLiu, Cixin
Summary: After witnessing his parents' bizarre death by ball lightning, Chin uncovers a new frontier in particle physics that pits him against a weapons-obsessed army major and an unscrupulous physicist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIUMcDevitt, Jack.
Summary: Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath try to find a missing physicist whose fringe science theories on endless alternate universes led him to fly interstellar yachts outside the planetary system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCDSawyer, Robert J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWTchaikovsky, Adrian
Summary: "Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back... Lee thought she'd lost Mal, but now she's miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has she been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by MI5 officers either, and Lee isn't the only one with questions. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2020