| Author |
Title |
Book Location(s) |
| Anderson, M.T. |
Feed
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble. |
Teen
Anderson |
| Asaro, Catherine |
Sunrise Alley
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- in fact, an experiment in illegal android research. |
Science Fiction. Asaro |
| Bova, Ben |
City of Darkness
Ron was hunting for a good time, until he became the hunted in the domed city of a futuristic Manhattan. |
Teen. Bova |
| Broderick, Damien |
Transcension
In a techno-topia ruled by an artificial intelligence, math and music genius Amanda wanders into the life and mind of Matthewmark, a young man living in an enclave of religious believers who live in a primitive state and distrust technology. |
Teen. Broderick |
| Card, Orson Scott |
Ender’s Shadow
Bean, an orphan living on the streets, finds himself plucked from desperate straits and placed in Battle School, where his tactical skills earn him respect and a role with Ender Wiggin in battle. Companion to Ender’s Game. |
Science Fiction. Card. Also in Teen |
| Czerneda, Julie |
Survival
Dr. MacKenzie Connor , a biologist, finds her research interrupted by the arrival of Brymn, an archaeologist and the first member of his alien race to set foot on Earth. |
Teen. Czerneda |
| Flynn, Michael |
Wreck of the River of Stars
When a bizarre failure disables the fusion engines powering the spaceship River of Stars, the crew is forced to try to recreate a long-obsolete high-tech sail. |
Science Fiction. Flynn. Also in Teen |
| Hayden, Patrick Nielsen, ed. |
New Skies
Best brand new science fiction stories by noted sci-fi authors. |
Teen. Story Collection. New Skies |
| Henighan, Tom |
Mercury Man
Tom discovers that a local computer company is recruiting his fellow students for what he expects is some evil purpose. |
Teen. Henighan |
| Herbert, Brian and Anderson, Kevin J. |
Dune: the Butlerian Jihad
A prequel to the Dune series, it tells the story of a past war in which humans won their freedom from “thinking machines”. |
Science Fiction. Herbert. Also in Teen |
| Price, Susan |
The Sterkarm Handshake
Having traveled to a sixteenth century border clan in England through a tunnel created by a twenty-first century company, Andrea must decide in which era she will live. |
Teen. Price.
See also sequel The Sterkarm Kiss |
| Reeve, Philip |
Mortal Engines
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires, and must make his own way in the perilous Out-Country. |
Teen. Reeve
See also the sequel Predator’s Gold |
| Robinson, Kim Stanley |
Forty Signs of Rain
When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950’s, it averaged 30 feet thick in mid-winter; by the end of the century it was down to 15. Now pack ice has started to break up in May. Senate environmental advisor Charles Quibler must find a way to get a skeptical administration to act before it is too late. |
Teen. Robinson. See also Red Mars series |
| Stross, Charles |
Singularity Sky
In the 25 th century, the New Republic lives in isolation, having chosen to avoid the Eschaton, an independent, sentient, artificial intelligence, and the technological advances that followed its creation. But one day, advanced technologies literally begin to fall from the sky. |
Science Fiction. Stross. Also in Teen.
See also the sequel, Iron Sunrise |
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