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By Kevin Cockle. 2016
Genetically enhanced workers are the future of companies competing in the global marketplace. But genetic perfection has a price: a…
brutal Darwinian contest of strength and cunning to determine which bloodlines will continue, and dominate. When Sarah Wheeler’s Spawning Contest is rigged, her breeding and training will be put to the ultimate test—by an adversary who knows her every flaw and weakness, by a father whose dynastic ambitions know no bounds, and by a world that is ruthlessly selecting against human agency itself. 2016.By Ian R MacLeod. 2008
Near the end of the twenty-first century, an old woman in Cornwall rescues a nude young man from the ocean,…
somehow dragging him from the beach to her well-appointed house. She is a world-famous violinist, who, despite having taken full advantage of life-prolonging therapeutics, knows death is near. He is obviously educated but lacks all personal knowledge. She calls him Adam. It suits her needs to reminisce and his to listen. Her remembrances are punctuated by daily life with Adam until she has told him all. Includes strong language. 2008.By Terri Favro. 2017
Cult comic book creator Debbie Reynolds Biondi has been riding the success of her Cold War era-inspired superhero series, Sputnik…
Chick: Girl with No Past, for more than 25 years. But with the comic book losing fans and Debbie struggling to come up with new plotlines for her badass, mutant-killing heroine, she decides to finally tell Sputnik Chick's origin story. Debbie's never had to make anything up before and she isn't starting now. Sputnik Chick is based on Debbie's own life in an alternate timeline called Atomic Mean Time. As a teenager growing up in Shipman's Corners - a Rust Belt town voted by Popular Science magazine as "most likely to be nuked" - she was recruited by a self-proclaimed time traveller to collapse Atomic Mean Time before an all-out nuclear war grotesquely altered humanity. In trying to save the world, Debbie risked obliterating everyone she'd ever loved - as well as her own past - in the process. Or so she believes. 2017.By Sarah Tarkoff. 2018
In Grace Luther's world, morality is physically enforced. Those who are "good" are blessed with beauty, while those who are…
not suffer disfigurement, or even death. When the cleric's daughter stumbles onto information that proves her world is more complicated than it seems, she finds herself at the center of an epic battle where good and evil are not so easily distinguished. For junior and senior high readers. 2018.By Anthony Melchiorri. 2017
Medical scientist and ship's captain Tag Brewer leads a band of aliens, a few humans, and a synthetic lifeform into…
deep space to destroy the Drone-masters before they destroy Earth. Sequel to "Edge of war", followed by "Rebel world". 2017.By E. K Johnston. 2016
Fans have long wondered what happened to Ahsoka after she left the Jedi Order near the end of the Clone…
Wars, and before she re-appeared as the mysterious Rebel operative Fulcrum in Rebels. Finally, her story will begin to be told. Following her experiences with the Jedi and the devastation of Order 66, Ahsoka is unsure she can be part of a larger whole ever again. But her desire to fight the evils of the Empire and protect those who need it will lead her right to Bail Organa, and the Rebel Alliance. For junior and senior high readers. 2016.By Jonathan Maberry. 2016
By Matt Forbeck. 2016
By James S. A Corey. 2017
Like many before them, Cara and her family ventured through the gates as scientists and researchers, driven to carve out…
a new life and uncover the endless possibilities of the unexplored alien worlds now within reach. But soon the soldiers followed and under this new order Cara makes a discovery that will change everything. 2017.By David Bergen. 2016
Íso, a young Guatemalan woman working at a fertility clinic, becomes the secret lover of the resident American doctor, Eric…
Mann. But Dr. Mann decides to return to the US, and before Íso can tell Dr. Mann that she is pregnant, he is gone. After the birth of her daughter, the baby is taken from her. The director of the clinic informs Íso that her child is in America. Determined to reclaim her stolen daughter, Íso makes her way north through Mexico, eventually crossing illegally into a United States divided into military zones. Travelling without documentation, and with little money, Íso descends into a world full of danger. In a place of shifting boundaries, Íso must determine who she can trust and how much, aware that she might lose her daughter forever. 2016.By Susan Forest, Lucas K Law. 2016
Nineteen science fiction and fantasy authors tackle the division between mental health and mental illness; how the interplay between our…
minds' quirks and the diverse societies and cultures we live in can set us apart, or must be concealed, or become unlikely strengths. 2016.By Jeffrey A Carver. 1995
In "Neptune Crossing", John Bandicut saved the Earth from a comet but lost his alien friend Charlie in the process.…
Now John awakens to find himself stranded in an artificial structure, Shipworld, with two humanoids and a new alien friend, IK, who wants John for a new mission. 1996, c1995.By Terry Pratchett. 1994
The excavation showed that the fossilised plesioseur had been holding a placard which read, 'End nuclear testing now'. That was…
nothing unusual. But then came a discovery of something that did intrigue Kin Arad. A flat earth was something new. Originally published in 1981. 1994.By Ben Mezrich. 2015
When medical students accidentally take skin from the wrong donor, an elderly professor becomes the city's most wanted fugitive. Agents…
Fox Mulder and Dana Scully track the skin that was grafted onto the professor--a trail that leads from the morgue to the jungles of Thailand. 2015.By T. J Berry. 2018
A misfit crew race across the galaxy to prevent the genocide of magical creatures, in this unique science fiction debut.…
Having magical powers makes you less than human, a resource to be exploited. Half-unicorn Gary Cobalt is sick of slavery, captivity, and his horn being ground down to power faster-than-light travel. When he's finally free, all he wants is to run away in his ancestors' stone ship. Instead, Captain Jenny Perata steals the ship out from under him, so she can make an urgent delivery. But Jenny held him captive for a decade, and then Gary murdered her best friend... who was also the wife of her co-pilot, Cowboy Jim. What could possibly go right? 2018.By Sean Grigsby. 2018
When dragons rise from the earth, firefighters are humanity's last line of defence, in this wild near-future fantasy. Firefighter Cole…
Brannigan is on the verge of retirement after 30 years on the job, and a decade fighting dragons. But during his final fire call, he discovers he's immune to dragon smoke. It's such a rare power that he's immediately conscripted into the elite dragon-fighting force known as the Smoke Eaters. Retirement cancelled, Brannigan is re-assigned as a lowly rookie, chafing under his superiors. So when he discovers a plot to take over the city's government, he takes matters into his own hands. With hundreds of innocent civilians in the crosshairs, it's up to Brannigan and his fellow Smoke Eaters to repel the dragon menace. 2018.By Steve Toutonghi. 2018
Vin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting an ultra-modern…
Seattle mansion whose owner has gone missing. There he discovers a secret basement lab with an array of computers and three large, smooth caskets. Inside one he finds a woman in a state of suspended animation. There is also a dog-eared notebook filled with circuit diagrams, beautiful and intricate drawings of body parts, and pages of code. When Vin decides to climb into one of the caskets to see what happens, his reality begins to unravel, and he finds himself on a terrifying journey that asks fundamental questions about reality, free will, and the meaning of a human life. 2018.By Marion Zimmer Bradley. 2017
A novel from the Darkover series, about a man on his first mission to the planet. What he encounters when…
he leaves the space station is to determine the fate of every Terran stranded there. Sequel to "City of sorcery", followed by "The winds of Darkover". 2017.By Huw Powell. 2014
As a baby, Jake Cutler was separated from his family and left on the planet Remota, deep in the seventh…
solar system. Eleven years later, Jake carries a secret within himself that could change the entire universe. Jake must discover the truth about his past before he is hunted down and caught by ruthless space pirates. Grades 4-7. 2014.By Dave Bara. 2016
The Lightship H.M.S. Impulse is gone, sacrificed in a battle against First Empire ships. And though the fragile galactic alliance…
has survived the unexpected invasion, the Union forces might not prove victorious against a full onslaught by this legendary enemy. For Peter Cochrane, serving as an officer aboard his world's flagship, H.M.S. Starbound is a dream come true. Tasked with investigating a mysterious space station in a rediscovered star system, Peter and Starbound face a surprise attack by unknown forces and suffer terrible losses. But there is no time to grieve or even regroup as Peter is thrust into a new crisis, a potential civil war on the Union world of Carinthia. Caught between his rank in the navy and his status as a royal heir, Peter is put on trial for the loss of Impulse, used as a political pawn as Carinthia stands on the brink of a devastating conflict. Peter escapes but faces the prospect of interstellar war when he learns of a possible alliance between the First Empire and Carinthia, a coalition which could tear the Union apart. Sequel to "Impulse", followed by "Defiant". 2016.