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Author
Series
B.E.S.T. world volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ace Wells's dream has finally come true: he is a new cadet in the B.E.S.T. (Biological Enhancement Systems Technology) Program. Until now, he's been living in the shadow of his superstar brother, Finn--but not for long. This is new Ace! He knows he can make his mark on the world with SuperSoar wings, but on day one, nothing goes as planned. The antagonistic elevator AI Otis wants to eat his belongings, the physical feats set by his...
2) Beautyland
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different; she also possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax machine enables her to contact her extraterrestrial relatives, beings who have sent her to report on...
Author
Publisher
NIGHT SHADE Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
18 stories from the author of The Black Company and The Dread Empire. The ultimate collection from a master of science fiction and fantasy. The Best of Glen Cook collects eighteen of his greatest stories--as chosen and introduced by the author himself--including a new, never-before-published Black Company novelette. With works set in all of his most famous series, these tales of science fiction and fantasy offer both the perfect way for longtime fans...
Author
Publisher
Tor Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An all new collection from an American literary icon The circus comes to town... and a man gets to go to the stars. A young girl on a vacation at the sea meets the man of her dreams. Who just happens to be dead. And an immortal pirate. A swordfighter pens his memoirs... and finds his pen is in fact mightier than the sword. Welcome to Gene Wolfe's playground, a place where genres blend and a genius's imagination straps you in for the ride of your...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda's ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career--after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her...and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he's saying. But just as they figure out this new life,...
Author
Series
The 100 series volume 2
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It's been 21 days since the hundred landed on Earth. They're the only humans to set foot on the planet in centuries ... or so they thought. Facing an unknown enemy, WELLS attempts to keep the group safe after a tragic attack. CLARKE strikes out in search of other colonists, while BELLAMY is determined to rescue his sister, no matter the cost. And back on the ship, GLASS faces an unthinkable choice between the love of her life and life itself. Secrets...
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Language
English
Description
"Set in an unnamed valley-surrounded by other valleys, each twenty years apart in time-a masterful, moving literary speculative novel in which the Conseil determines if a bereaved resident can cross the border to the past or the future on a "mourning tour." One sixteen-year-old Conseil candidate spots two visitors from the future, but is shocked when she recognizes them as the parents of the boy she loves"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In twelve-year-old Reyna Cheng's world, gaming is everything. Professional esports teams are the mainstream celebrities. Kids begin training from a young age, aspiring for the big leagues. Reyna is the up-and-coming junior amateur Dayhold gamer, competing in a VR battle royale against AI monsters and human players. But despite Reyna's rising popularity and skills, no one knows who she is. Gaming is still a boys' club and to protect herself against...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A door never closes, but a window opens . . . With origins in the Old Universe, the malevolent, acquisitive intelligence of Tinsori Light sought to infect others with itself, and send those agents out into the wide new universe to infect even more. For centuries, two heroes stood between Tinsori Light and the vulnerable universe-Light Keepers Jen Sin yos'Phelium and Lorith of the Sanderat. Just when it seemed that they-merely human-must fail, Tinsori...
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...
11) The Sagan diary
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Fans of John Scalzi's "Old Man" universe, prepare yourselves: there's a long new story in that universe, told from the point of view of one of the series' most intriguing characters." "Subterranean Press is proud to present The Sagan Diary, a long novelette that for the first time looks at the worlds of the Hugo-nominated Old Man's War and its sequel The Ghost Brigades from the point of view of Lieutenant Jane Sagan, who in a series of diary entries...
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In classic stories remixed, Latinx characters take center stage. Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby floats to an island off the coast of Costa Rica. A shape-shifter gives up her life to save the boy she loves from an evil bruja. La Ciguapa covets a little mermaid’s heart of gold. Two star-crossed teens fall in love while the planet burns around them. Whether...
Author
Language
English
Description
Looks at the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy and control.
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she's not the greatest at keeping Doug's place spotless,...
14) Runaway robot
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When Alfie goes to Airport Lost Property, he finds more than he bargained for. A lot more. Because there's a giant robot called Eric hidden away on the shelves. Eric has lost one leg and half his memory. He's super strong, but super clumsy. He's convinced that he's the latest technology, when he's actually nearly one hundred years old and ready for the scrap heap. Can Alfie find a way to save Eric from destruction - before Eric destroys everything...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Big Audrey, who has cat-like whiskers, and her telephathic friend Molly set out on a journey to find out why flying saucers are landing behind the old stone barn in Poughkeepsie, New York, and, more importantly, to determine whether another cat-whiskered girl really exists.
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Even the brightest of Eureka's residents can't read someone else's mind. Then Global Dynamics develops the Brain Box: a device capable of capturing and storing human thoughts. When the Box starts messing with people's minds, Sheriff Jack Carter will have to keep his thoughts to himself if he's going to save the town from going out of their heads.
19) Beggar's sky
Author
Series
Rich man's sky volume 3
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Trillionaire Igbal Renz has constructed a starship capable of making the twenty-year journey to Alpha Centauri. So why is he stopping at barely one-tenth that distance, with a cargo of a hundred frozen scientists and diplomats? Rumors abound that Renz Ventures, Inc., has made contact with . . . something. And yet, as deadly stealth ships prowl the space lanes and as the corporate space race threatens to devolve into outright warfare, the Four Horsemen...
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...
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