What is "Science fiction?"
"Themes and authors overlap with other genres, especially Fantasy, making Science fiction difficult to define. Science fiction posits future worlds and technologies which could exist. Science, rather than magic, drives the stories." (Description from Novelist Plus.)
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2312 |
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. |
2012-12 |
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The adoration of Jenna Fox |
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence |
2010-09 |
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The angel experiment |
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids, " who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose |
2010-09 |
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The angel experiment |
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids, " who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose |
2010-09 |
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An audience for Einstein |
Professor Percival Marlowe is a brilliant, elderly astrophysicist who's dying, his greatest achievement still unfinished and now beyond his diminished means.Doctor Carl Dorning, a neurosurgeon, finally discovers a secret method of transplanting memories from one person to another, thanks to Marlowe's millions.Miguel Sanchez, a homeless boy, agrees to become the recipient of Marlowe's knowledge and personality in this unorthodox experiment, enticed by Dorning's promises of intelligence, wealth and respect, but dangerously unaware that his own identity will be lost forever |
2011-07 |
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Boneshaker |
Inventor Leviticus Blue creates a machine that accidentally decimates Seattle's banking district and uncovers a vein of Blight Gas that turns everyone who breathes it into the living dead. |
2010-09 |
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Brave new world |
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future -- of a world utterly transformed. |
2010-08 |
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Catching fire |
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion |
2010-11 |
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Children of the mind |
Ender Wiggin's adopted world of Lusitania, with its three sentient species and his oldest friend Jane, a computer intelligence, are threatened by a fleet of ships sent by the Starways Congress, but with the help of two new beings created by Ender's mind, the planet may still be saved |
2010-08 |
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A clockwork orange |
In a future where criminals rule the night, Alex, a vicious fifteen-year-old droog, is "redeemed" by the state |
2012-12 |
