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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee. In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars. There, January's life is dictated by his status as an Earthstronger-a person whose body is not adjusted to lower gravity and so poses a danger to those born on, or naturalized to, Mars. January's...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"He was created to kill the Avengers - but he turned against his "father." He found a home among Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and love in the arms of the Scarlet Witch. It didn't end well. Now, the Vision just wants an ordinary life - with a wife and two children, a home in the suburbs, perhaps even a dog. So he built them. But it won't end any better. Everything is nice and normal - until the deaths begin. Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta confound...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage, Riley, when a new neighbor moves in down the road, throws caution to the wind in her desperate need for human contact, and as they grow closer, she can no longer fight her deepest desires.
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of space-borne madness.
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again. The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world's foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth. Can she help the magnificent creatures...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He's not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace he finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting....
Author
Publisher
TOR Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A View from the Stars is a collection of short fiction and nonfiction pieces from Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem. Included are essays and interviews that shed light on Liu's experiences as a reader, writier, and lover of science fiction throughout his life, as well as short fiction that gives glimpses into the evolution of his imaginative voice over the years"--Back cover.
10) Exordia
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Anna Sinjari--refugee, survivor of genocide, disaffected office worker--has a close encounter that reveals universe-threatening stakes. Enter Ssrin, a many-headed serpent alien who is on the run from her own past. Ssrin and Anna are inexorably, dangerously drawn to each other...While humanity reels from disaster, Anna must join a small team of civilians, soldiers, and scientists to investigate a mysterious broadcast and unknowable horror. If they...
Author
Publisher
Story Ark Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"They fight fires with Rock'n'Roll, capture spy satellites with a minivan and communicate with animals using pee, yes Pee! Written for middle school readers from 9 to 14 years old, The Whiz Kids from DARPA is a graphic novel that shows the first 10 stories of a group of young teens who go on funny missions and adventures using Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) to save the day. The group is also an example of diversity, comprised of...
12) Extinction
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals.
Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths,
13) Memory piece
Author
Language
English
Description
"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
Author
Series
Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti volume 2
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When 17 students and staff members disappear from Valdegeld University, Investigator Mossa once again needs Pleiti's insight, but Pleiti finds this new case threatening to further destabilize her dreams for humanity's future as well as her own"--
15) Escape from Valo
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney, Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the embattled Occlusion Zone where evil pirates continue to threaten the Republic's very existence, Jedi Padawans plot their escape from enemy territory, in this action-packed Star Wars adventure.
Author
Series
Publisher
Games Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From investigating strange murders to facing off against a vast interstellar organisation, Gregor Eisenhorn is an Inquisitor who is willing to pursue dubious means to guarantee success. Follow his journey as he becomes entangled in the fate of the alien text known as the Necroteuch, and draws the ire of the Imperium to him as he becomes embroiled in cat and mouse games and double-crossing with powerful friends and foes." --publisher's website.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In this dystopian tale, young Erie and her older sister, Hurona, leave the only home they've ever known and discover that the world is much larger and more complicated than they'd ever imagined"--
Twelve-year-old Erie has never lived life fully in the sunlight. After destructive wildfires wreaked havoc on the world around her, the government came up with a plan--engineer a plant that cannot burn. Thus, the fire-resistant lockwood was born. The lockwood...
18) Leviathan
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Library
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Imperium fights for its very existence against a threat unlike any other in the galaxy, and a Tyranid invasion beyond any yet experienced.
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Journey across the stars of the Imperial Radch universe. Listen to the words of the Old Gods that ruled The Raven Tower. Learn the secrets of the mysterious Lake of Souls. And so much more, in this masterfully wide-ranging and immersive short fiction collection from award-winning author Ann Leckie"--
20) Hull zero three
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space, its destination-unknown and tts purpose-a mystery. One man wakes up wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger. All he has are questions -- Who is he? Where are they going? What happened to the dream of a new life? What happened to the woman he loved? What happened to Hull 03?
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