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Science Fiction
April 2025 |
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Open Minds, Open Worlds “Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.” ― Isaac Asimov
Welcome to the FCPL Science Fiction Newsletter. This bi-monthly newsletter provides reading suggestions for science fiction books both new and old. All titles will be available in print through the Forsyth County library system, and some are available for immediate download in e-book or audiobook format on your phone or tablet! Download the Libby and Hoopla apps or ask a librarian about our digital library for more information.
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Murder by Memory
by Olivia Waite
On the luxurious HMS Fairweather - where new bodies are provided upon request, and minds can be temporarily preserved in the Library -Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn’t hers—just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship’s detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fairweather, but when she finds that someone is not only killing bodies but purposefully deleting minds from the Library, she realizes something even more sinister is afoot.
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Where the Axe is Buried
by Ray Nayler
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on the fringes of a Western Europe that has renounced human governance in favor of ostensibly more efficient, objective, and peaceful AI Prime Ministers, an experimental artificial mind is malfunctioning, threatening to set off a chain of events that may spell the end of the Western world.
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The Mask of Fear
by Alexander Freed
In the early days of the Empire, Mon Mothma, Bail Organa, and Saw Gerrera navigate the oppressive regime in the wake of Chancellor Palpatine's proclamation, grappling with their personal struggles and hidden motivations while laying the groundwork for the Rebel Alliance amid the galaxy's increasing tyranny and despair.
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The Dream Hotel
by Laila Lalami
After a dream-analysis algorithm predicts that she will harm her husband, Sara is detained in a facility with similarly accused women. With any deviation from strict protocol and ever-changing rules, the women's sentences grow longer leaving them without hope of release. Then one day, a new resident arrives, disrupting the order of the facility and leading Sara on a collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom.
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The Strain
by Guillermo del Toro
This first installment in the Strain trilogy follows an epic struggle for survival between humans and vampires, a tale that is set against a backdrop of the post-World War II era in eastern Europe and America.
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The Passage
by Justin Cronin
The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse.
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Doomsday Book
by Connie Willis
Stranded in the fourteenth century--a time of superstition and fear--time traveler Kivrin becomes an unlikely angel of hope during history's darkest hour as she awaits rescue by her comrades.
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Zone One
by Colson Whitehead
In a post-apocalyptic world decimated by zombies, efforts to rebuild are focused on Manhattan where civilian team member Mark Spitz works to eliminate remaining infected stragglers while remembering his horrifying experiences at the height of the zombie plague.
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Deep Freeze
by Michael C. Grumley
After surviving a bus accident, veteran John Reiff awakens in the hospital alive and suspicious that the doctors aren't telling him something. As Reiff's mind and body gradually recover, he becomes certain that the doctors are lying to him as critical information is being kept from him, supposedly for his own good. But who is doing this? Why? And the most important question: can he keep himself alive long enough to uncover the truth?
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Mickey7
by Edward Ashton
A disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice work Niflheim, Mickey7, who can regenerate after dying, must keep his newly arrived clone a secret from the rest of the colony as the survival of all lifeforms comes down to him.
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All Our Wrong Todays
by Elan Mastai
Living in an alternate world of flying cars, moon bases and plentiful food, aimless Tom Barren is blindsided by an accident of fate that leads to a time-travel mishap that lands him in our less-than-ideal 2016, where he discovers wonderful unexpected versions of his own life.
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Ancestral Night
by Elizabeth Bear
Two salvage operators searching through lost human and alien spaceships make a shocking discovery about a species long believed to be dead, a discovery that may be the thing that could tip the perilous peace mankind has found into full-out war.
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