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The accidental time machine
By Joe W Haldeman. 2008
Things are going nowhere for lowly MIT research assistant Matt Fuller - especially not after his girlfriend drops him for…
another man. But then while working late one night, he inadvertently stumbles upon what may be the greatest scientific breakthrough ever. His luck, however, runs out when he finds himself wanted for murder - in the future. 2008.Tesseracts 2
By Phyllis Gotlieb, Douglas Barbour. 1987
Tesseracts
By Judith Merril. 1985
The Afterdark princess
By Annie Dalton. 1992
Joe Quail is easily worried - the wrong kind of boy altogether to be a hero, but when Alice shows…
Joe the Kingdom of Afterdark and explains that someone's life is at stake, there doesn't seem to be much choice, and Joe is swept into an adventure to save the last Princess of Afterdark. Grades 2-4. 1992.Tek net (Tek series. #9)
By William Shatner. 1997
Soon after Sid Gomez' second wife calls him to say she's in trouble, she disappears. Sid and Jake Cardigan have…
two leads -- Sonny Hokori, one of the most infamous TekLords, and an enemy to Jake from way back, and Garret Devlin, a secretive industrialist long suspected of underworld connections, but who died four years ago. Some strong language. Sequel to "Tek kill". 1997.Terra!
By Annapaola Cancogni, Stefano Benni. 1985
In 2157, Earth is in the grip of nuclear winter. When news of another life-sustaining planet reaches the people, plans…
for a space journey begins. Some strong language. c1985. Uniform title: Terra!Spark: [roman] (Mission nouvelle terre. #2.)
By Amy Kathleen Ryan. 2012
" Piégés sur une Terre en fin de vie, les derniers survivants de l'humanité n'ont qu'une issue : envoyer des…
vaisseaux à la recherche d'une nouvelle Terre pour assurer la survie de l'espèce. Le voyage durera plusieurs siècles. Waverly et Kieran sont nés à bord d'un des vaisseaux, et ont toujours vécu la tête dans les étoiles. Jusqu'au jour où tout bascule. Comment s'enfuir, comment survivre, quand on habite au beau milieu de l'espace ? " -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: Spark.Superbébé
By Henrietta Branford. 1998
Tangled planet
By Kate Blair. 2018
It's taken 400 years of travel, but the starship Venture has finally arrived at its destination. Beta Earth is an…
uninhabited, untouched planet that seventeen-year-old engineer Ursa has to colonise with her crewmates. The first night Ursa is on Beta Earth her world goes out of control when she encounters a dead body. She's positive she saw a large creature with sharp teeth, something that shouldn't even be on the planet, but nobody believes her. As injuries and bodies start piling up, Ursa must figure out who to trust when her fellow crewmates start taking sides between Venture's safety and the hope of creating a home on Beta Earth. If Ursa and her people can't find out what's really going on in the forest, their already fragile society won't survive. For senior high readers. 2018.Tarry this night
By Kristyn Dunnion. 2017
A civil war is brewing in America. Below ground, a cult led by the deluded and narcissistic Father Ernst is…
ensconced in an underground bunker, waiting out the conflict. When the "Family" runs out of food, Ruth, coming of age and terrified of serving as Ernst's next wife, must choose between obeying her faith and fighting for survival. Cousin Paul, sent topside to scavenge for food, may return with proof that it is safe for the Family to ascend again. But is it enough to invest all hope in Paul's unlikely return? In this unsettling modern take on the Lilith tale, spirited women resist their violent, racist culture and, in so doing, become outlaws. 2017.Sungrazer
By Jay Posey. 2017
In a new Cold War between Earth and the colonies on Mars, when devastating weapons go missing, there's only one…
team you can call--the Outriders. A crack force of highly specialised super-soldiers, their clone bodies are near-immortal. When a fully-autonomous vessel with orbital strike capabilities goes missing, it's up to the Outriders to track the untrackable. But when the trail leads them to the influential Martian People's Collective Republic, the operation gets a lot more complicated. 2017.Take back the sky (War Dogs series. #3.)
By Greg Bear. 2016
Marooned beneath the icy, waxy crust of Saturn's moon, Titan, Skyrine Michael Venn and his comrades face double danger from…
Earth and from the Antagonists, both intent on wiping out their growing awareness of what the helpful alien gurus are really doing in our solar system. Haunted by their glassy dead and by the ancient archives of their Bug ancestors, the former combatants must now team up with their enemies, forget their indoctrination and training, and journey far beyond Pluto to the fabled Planet X, the Antagonists' home world, a sun planet in the comet-generating Kuiper belt. It's here that Master Sergeant Venn will finally understand his destiny and the destiny of every intelligent being in the solar system--including the enigmatic Gurus. Sequel to "Killing Titan". 2016.Supervolcano: all fall down (Supervolcano. #2.)
By Harry Turtledove. 2012
All of North America is covered in ash after the eruption in Yellowstone, and Colin Ferguson's family is scattered across…
the United States. With food running low and cities uninhabitable, can they hope to survive long enough for what's left of civilization to rebuild? Sequel to "Supervolcano: eruption", followed by "Supervolcano: things fall apart". 2012.Supervolcano: eruption (Supervolcano. #1.)
By Harry Turtledove. 2012
Supervolcano: things fall apart (Supervolcano. #3.)
By Harry Turtledove. 2013
An explosion of incalculable magnitude in Yellowstone Park propelled lava and ash across the landscape and into the atmosphere, forever…
altering the climate of the entire continent. Nothing grows from the tainted soil. Stalled and stilled machines function only as statuary. People have been scraping by on the excess food and goods produced before the eruption. But supplies are running low. Natural resources are dwindling. And former police officer Colin Ferguson knows that time is running out for his family--and for humanity. Sequel to "Supervolcano: all fall down". 2013.Sunrise alley (Charon. #1.)
By Catherine Asaro. 2007
When a shipwrecked stranger washed up on the beach near research scientist Samantha Bryton's home, she was unaware that he…
was something more than human. He said his name was Turner Pascal--but Pascal was dead, killed in a car wreck. This man only held the remainder of Pascal's consciousness in a technologically-enhanced humanoid body. He was, in fact, an experiment by the notorious criminal Charon, a practitioner of illegal robotics and android research. Charon has been secretly copying human minds into android brains, with plans to make his own army of slaves. Followed by "Alpha". 2007.Suicide club
By Rachel Heng. 2018
In Rachel Heng's debut audiobook set in near future New York City, where lives last three hundred years and the…
pursuit of immortality is all-consuming, Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever. Lea Kirino is a "Lifer," which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever, if she does everything right. And Lea is an overachiever. She's a successful trader on the New York exchange, where instead of stocks, human organs are now bought and sold, she has a beautiful apartment, and a fiancé who rivals her in genetic perfection. And with the right balance of HealthTech, rigorous juicing, and low-impact exercise, she might never die. But Lea's perfect life is turned upside down when she spots her estranged father on a crowded sidewalk. His return marks the beginning of her downfall as she is drawn into his mysterious world of the Suicide Club, a network of powerful individuals and rebels who reject society's pursuit of immortality, and instead choose to live and die on their own terms. In this future world, death is not only taboo; it's also highly illegal. Soon Lea is forced to choose between a sanitized immortal existence and a short, bittersweet time with a man she has never really known, but who is the only family she has left in the world. 2018.Sunburst (The contemporary Scene Ser.)
By Phyllis Gotlieb. 1977
Deals with 2 classic themes of science fiction: the socio-psychological and biological aspects and consequences of modern technology, and the…
subjects of atomic explosion, mutation and supermen. For young adults. 1977.Sureblood
By Susan Grant. 2010
Five years ago rival space pirate captains Val Blue and Dake Sureblood stole one incredible night together, but it ended…
with the assassination of Val's father and the condemnation of Dake's clan. Now every successful raid for Val is a boot heel ground into the burning memory of Dake Sureblood, who was ambushed and captured before he could clear his name. Dake finally returns from a hell like no other to expose the true killer of Val's father, but as the identity of their enemy becomes clear, the former lovers must put aside their mistrust and join forces to protect their clans - and their precious son. Some descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. c2010.Solo: a Star Wars story
By Joe Schreiber. 2018
Travel to a galaxy far, far away with a young Han Solo as he meets Chewbacca the Wookiee, encounters Lando…
Calrissian, and boards the Millennium Falcon for the first time. 2018.