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Space odysseys: a new look at yesterday's futures
By Brian Wilson Aldiss. 1976
So long, and thanks for all the fish (Hitchhiker series. #4.)
By Douglas Adams. 1984
Arthur Dent is 1437 light years away from Earth, sitting in a Saab. He has just cracked his head on…
the door while climbing in. He feels stupified. Maybe it is because he has just laid eyes on the first female of the species that he has seen in years, sitting in the backseat. Sequel to "Life, the universe and everything" (DC29000). 1984. (The hitchhiker series ; 4)Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade: a duty-dance with death
By Kurt Vonnegut. 1970
Billy Pilgrim, an American captured by the Germans in the Second World War, is billetted in a slaughterhouse in Dresden…
and survives the annihilation of the city by the RAF. He later becomes rich and successful, only to find himself transported to another planet from which he returns radiant and full of desire to preach his message. Strong language and violence. 1970, c1969.Six days
By Philip Webb. 2011
Cass and her brother Wilbur scavenge in the ruins of a future London seeking an artifact for their Russian masters,…
but the search takes on a new urgency after the arrival of Erin and Peyto, strangers from afar who claim to hold the key to locating the mysterious object. Grades 5 to 8. 2011.Singularity sky (Eschaton series. #1.)
By Charles Stross. 2009
In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the…
Eschaton altered the course of humankind. New civilizations were founded across the vastness of space. Now, the technology-eschewing world known as the New Republic is besieged by an alien information plague. Earth quickly sends a battle fleet - but is it coming to the rescue, or is a sinister plot in motion? Followed by "Iron sunrise". 2009.Skiffy and the twin planets
By William Mayne. 1982
Skiffy is on a new space mission. This time he is heading for the twin planets Clarke I and Clarke…
II which appear to be behaving in a very peculiar way. Thirty-eight days out from Earth things start going wrong on the ship and there is `something' out there that is very old and very uncuddly. Grades 4-7. 1982.Singing the Dogstar blues
By Alison Goodman. 1998
Joss Aaronson is close to being expelled from the university where she studies time travel. Mavkel, a newly arrived telepathic…
student from another planet, then selects her as his study partner and roommate. When Joss discovers she is being stalked by an assassin, the two combine skills to search for reasons. Some descriptions of violence. For senior high readers. 1998.Seven surrenders (Terra Ignota. #2.)
By Ada Palmer. 2016
A long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders…
of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned, so that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way. Mycroft Canner, convict, sentenced to wander the globe in service to all, knows more about this conspiracy than he can ever admit. Carlyle Foster, counselor, sensayer, has secrets as well, and they burden Carlyle beyond description. And both Mycroft and Carlyle are privy to the greatest secret of all: Bridger, the child who can bring inanimate objects to life. Sequel to "Too like the lightning", followed by "The will to battle". 2016.Sever (Chemical Garden trilogy. #3.)
By Lauren DeStefano. 2013
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying…
at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source. Sequel to "Fever". Junior and Senior High. 2013.School's out-- forever (Maximum Ride. #2.)
By James Patterson. 2006
After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal…
life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max’s ultimate destiny - to save the world, whether she wants to or not. Sequel to "The Angel Experiment". Followed by “Saving the world and other extreme sports". Junior High. 2006.Shock
By Robin Cook. 2001
Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, graduate science students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve…
their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is looking for egg donors. Bestseller. 2001.Shine
By Jill Paton Walsh. 1988
Pattie called the new planet Shine. Now that the Earth was gone, it had to be their home, and all…
they had to help them survive was a few tools and some seeds. That meant a lot of hard work and only Pattie and the other children had time to make discoveries. Some were useful, like candy trees. Some were frightening, like the planet's other inhabitants. But the most frightening thing of all was something they had brought with them from earth - hunger. Grades 5-8. 1988.Sent (Missing. #2.)
By Margaret Peterson Haddix. 2009
Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex suddenly find themselves in 1483 at the Tower of London, where they discover that Chip…
and Alex are Prince Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, imprisoned by their uncle, King Richard III, but trying to repair history without knowing what is supposed to happen proves challenging. Author's note includes historical facts about the princes and king. Sequel to "Found", followed by "Sabotaged". Grades 5-8. 2009.Shatterday
By Harlan Ellison. 1982
Schism: part one of Triad (Saga of the Skolian Empire. #10.)
By Catherine Asaro. 2017
"Schism" harkens back to the early years of the Skolian Empire, back to the beginning of the war between Skolia…
and the Euban Traders. Twenty-three years have passed since the fateful vote in the Skolian Assembly that Roca missed in "Skyfall". It created the first open hostility between Eube and Skolia, which has only deepened in the ensuing years. Now Eube senses an opportunity, for strife has riven the first family of the Skolian Empire. Sauscony, the daughter of Roca and Eldrinson, is ready to seek her fortune as an officer-in-training in the Skolian military. When her father forbids her to undertake such a dangerous path, a rupture develops as Soz chooses duty over family. Eube hopes to make this divide permanent, leaving the Empire ripe for conquest. And they're willing to kill anyone to make it happen. Sequel to "Skyfall", followed by "The final key"/"The Triad part 2". 2017.Shade's children
By Garth Nix. 1997
In a future world, four teenagers with different psychic skills form a bond while trying to defeat the gory rule…
of the Overlords. Encouraged and trained by Shade, their mysterious leader, Drum, Ella, Ninde, and Gold-Eye confront hideous monsters, who would rather capture them for their body parts than kill them. Violence and some strong language. Junior and senior high readers. 1997.Seeker (Alex Benedict novel ; #3)
By Jack McDevitt. 2005
Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict from "Polaris" acquires a nine-thousand-year-old cup believed to be from the starship Seeker, which fled…
Earth in 2688 to establish a new colony, Margolia. Alex and his assistant Chase Kolpath look for the Seeker, hoping it will lead to Margolia. Some violence, strong language and descriptions of sex. 2006, c2005. (Alex Benedict novel ; 3)Selected short stories: Selected Short Stories
By H. G Wells. 1970
Sea-horse in the sky
By Edmund Cooper. 1969