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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.Spawning ground
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.Song of time
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.Sputnik's children: a novel
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.Sinless (Eye of the beholder. #1.)
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.Shattered dawn (Eternal frontier series. #3.)
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.Star Wars Ahsoka
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.Secret agendas (The X-Files Anthologies ; #Book 3)
By Jonathan Maberry. 2016
Star Wars: the junior novel; Rogue one
By Matt Forbeck. 2016
Strange dogs (Expanse. #6.5.)
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.