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Open Minds, Open Worlds “Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.” ―Connie Willis
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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Future's Edge
by Gareth L. Powell
Archaeologist Ursula Morrow, infected by an alien parasite just before Earth's destruction, is recruited from a refugee camp two years later to retrieve the artifact responsible, which is now hidden in hostile territory. Facing brutal conflicts and desperate choices, she must attempt space piracy to save humanity's remnants from imminent annihilation.
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The Last Dangerous Visions by Harlan EllisonThis anthology more than half a century in the making is the third and final installment of the legendary science fiction anthology series. These thirty-two never-before-published stories, essays, and poems stand as a testament to Ellison’s lifelong pursuit of art, uniting a diverse range of science fiction writers both famous and newly minted.
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Dengue Boy
by Michel Nieva
For fans of David Cronenberg’s films and lovers of Kafka, this gaucho-punk, sci-fi novel set in 2197 offers a coming-of-age story about a mutant mosquito-kid set in 2272 Argentina when all the ice caps have melted and mega-conglomerates rule the world with their ultra-capitalist virofinance.
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Splinter Effect
by Andrew Ludington
In a failed expedition 20 years ago, time-traveling Smithsonian archaeologist Rabbit Ward lost the menorah of the second temple as well as his mentee, Aaron. When new evidence shows the menorah in sixth century Constantinople, he seizes the chance for redemption.
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Nonfiction for Sci-Fi Readers
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The Future Was Now : Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-fi Summer of 1982
by Chris Nashawaty
Examining the eight science fiction films released in 1982, including E.T., Blade Runner, The Thing and Mad Max, a legendary entertainment journalist shows how these cult classics changed the careers of some of Hollywood's now-biggest names as well as the art of moviemaking to this day.
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Nexus : a Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval N. Harari
Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power.
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The Martian
by Andy Weir
Stranded on Mars by a dust storm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him behind, astronaut Watney struggles to survive in spite of minimal supplies and harsh environmental challenges that test his ingenuity in unique ways.
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The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
This is the story of Arthur Dent, who, seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, is plucked off the planet by his friend, Ford Prefect, who has been posing as an out-of-work actor for the last fifteen years but is really a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Together they begin a journey through the galaxy aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide.
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The Legacy of Heorot
by Larry Niven
The two hundred colonists on board the Geographic have spent a century in cold sleep to arrive here: Avalon, a lush, verdant planet lightyears from Earth. They hope to establish a permanent colony, and Avalon seems the perfect place. And so they set about planting and building. But their very presence has upset the ecology of Avalon. Soon an implacable predator stalks them, picking them off one by one. In order to defeat this alien enemy, they must reevaluate everything they think they know about Avalon, and uncover the planet's dark secrets.
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Black Sun by Rebecca RoanhorseIn the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial even proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain.
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