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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Genesis |
To answer the deceptively simple question of why she wants to enter the Academy, Anaximander finds she must struggle with everything she has ever known about herself and her beloved island Republic's history. What is the nature of being human, of being conscious? What does it mean to have a soul? |
2011-02 |
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Hitchhiker's guide ot the galazy |
"Douglas Adams's hapless hero Arthur Dent travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You'll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic dialogue. |
2011-06 |
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The Hunger Games |
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. |
2010-09 |
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The Hunger Games |
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. |
2010-09 |
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The Hunger Games |
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place. |
2010-09 |
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I, robot |
The development of robot technology to a state of perfection by future civilizations is explored in nine science fiction stories. |
2013-03 |
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The illuminatus! trilogy |
The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels written by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson first published in 1975.[1] The trilogy is a satirical, postmodern, science fiction-influenced adventure story; a drug-, sex-, and magic-laden trek through a number of conspiracy theories, both historical and imaginary, related to the authors' version of the Illuminati. |
2012-12 |
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Leviathan |
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts |
2010-09 |
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Little brother |
Interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus is released into what is now a police state, and decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. |
2011-04 |
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Max |
Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock have barely recovered from their last arctic adventure, when they are confronted by the most frightening catastrophe yet. Millions of fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii and someone--or something--is destroying hundreds of ships. |
2010-09 |
