Book List - Science Fiction
| Hitchhiker's Guide series Adams, Douglas SF Ed.d View it in Our Catalog In the first book in this series of 5 books, Ford Prefect, the galactic hitchhiker, grabs Arthur Dent to safety seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway. As Dent & Prefect travel together throughout the galaxy, they get mixed up in logic-twisting and hilarious adventures. Don't forget to bring a towel! | |
| Feed Anderson, M. T. View it in Our Catalog In the future, a surgically implanted feed constantly transmits information, particularly advertisements, directly to the brain. Teen narrator, Titus, never wonders, never questions and never thinks. The feed does all that for him. But when he meets Violet, a girl on the other side of that digital world, his whole world turns upside down. | |
| Supernaturalist Colfer, Eoin View it in Our Catalog Raised in the futuristic Satellite City where scientific experiments are performed on kids in an orphanage, 14-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes and joins a group called 'The Supernaturalists'. Their unique ability to see the usually invisible 'Parasites' helps them in their quest to destroy these blue, energy-sucking creatures. But are the Parasites really evil or do they have another purpose? | |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dick, Philip SF Ed.a View it in Our Catalog By 2021, entire species are extinct and many of the people that survived the devastating World War have moved to Mars--along with the androids. Androids are feared and banned from Earth. But they look so realistic it's hard to distinguish them from real humans. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, must hunt down the rogue androids and retire them. But androids fight back. | |
| Book of Ember series DuPrau, Jeanne View it in Our Catalog In the first book of this series, the City of Ember is dying. The underground city was built as a refuge for the human race and Lina must find a way to save her city. She believes that the portion of an ancient secret message she finds holds the key to survival. But she must travel to the Unknown Regions if she is to have any chance at all. Can she and her friend Doon survive the Unknown Regions and decipher the message before it is too late? | |
| House of the Scorpion Farmer, Nancy x View it in Our Catalog Usually clones are destroyed, but Matt is spared because he is the clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old ruler of Opium and the most powerful, evil and corrupt leader of the drug empire. Will Matt be spared forever? As Matt becomes aware of his fate as a clone, he escapes but must return to transform his country. | |
| Rash Hautman, Pete View it in Our Catalog A future society in the United Safer States of America has decided it would "rather be safe than free". Sixteen-year-old Bo doesn't mind all of the harsh rules until his anger control problems land him in a Canadian tundra jail. When Bo incurs the wrath of the warden of the jail because his A.I., Bork, is secretly trying to get Bo released, Bo is cast out into the bear-infested tundra. Will he survive? | |
| Maximum Ride series Patterson, James View it in Our Catalog Saving Angel from being kidnapped, fighting off the "Erasers" (a group of half-human, half wolf beings) or dodging capture by sinister spies are only a few of the adventures awaiting Max and her friends. But the genetically engineered members of the "Flock"-Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel-have an even more difficult challenge. They must save the world!! | |
| Life As We Knew It Pfeffer, Susan View it in Our Catalog Miranda's world is changed forever when an asteroid hits the moon and shifts its orbit. Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tide changes threaten to destroy Earth and its inhabitants. Through journal entries, 16-year-old Miranda tells the story of her family's struggle to survive. | |
| Hungry City Chronicles Reeve, Philip View it in Our Catalog In the future, Traction Towns eat other smaller towns and strip them of their precious resources in order to survive. This imaginative and complex adventure series begins when Tom, a 15-year-old apprentice in the Guild of Historians, is thrown into the muddy and ruined Out-Country with Hester during her attempt to murder Tom's hero and Head Historian, Thaddeus Valentine. | |
| Heir Apparent Vande Velde, Vivian View it in Our Catalog While playing a full-immersion virtual reality role-playing game, 14-year-old Giannine finds out that she must win the game or die. | |
| Storm Thief Wooding, Chris View it in Our Catalog Rail and Moa are teen thieves who live in Orokos, an ancient metropolis in serious decay. Probability storms strike without warning and have made Rail incapable of breathing without a respirator. When Moa & Rail come across an artifact that may unlock the secrets of Orokos, they are hunted by the Secret Police and other thieves. Joined by Vago, a golem who is both human and machine, they must flee for their lives! | |
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