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Science Fiction
August 2025 |
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Open Minds, Open Worlds “The trouble with fiction… is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.” – Aldous Huxley
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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The Garden
by Nick Newman
Elderly sisters Evelyn and Lily live in isolation within a walled garden, tending to their secluded home, until the discovery of a mysterious boy hiding nearby disrupts their routine and forces them to confront dark truths about themselves and their isolated existence.
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Star Wars : Sanctuary
by Lamar Giles
While seeking refuge from the Empire on the island of Pabu, Hunter and his found family face mounting peril as risky missions, secretive passengers, and a relentless Imperial officer threaten their fragile hope for peace.
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Artificial Wisdom
by Thomas R. Weaver
In a climate-ravaged landscape where AI and humans vie for political power, a journalist must unravel a murderous plot that will either upend the world or save it.
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Automatic Noodle
by Annalee Newitz
From acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz comes a cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own restaurant.
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Slaughterhouse-Five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Deathby Kurt VonnegutCentering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee.
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley’s tour de force, Brave New World is a darkly satiric vision of a “utopian” future where humans are genetically bred and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively serve a ruling order. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations.
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It Can't Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
Newspaper editor Doremus Jessup is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is offering to save the nation from sex, crime, welfare cheats, and a liberal press. But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state. First published in 1935.
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.
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The Scourge Between Stars
by Ness Brown
As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive. Faced with constant threats of starvation and destruction, Jacklyn's crew has reached their breaking point. As unrest begins to spread, a new threat emerges, picking off crew members in grim, bloody fashion. Jacklyn and her team must hunt down the ship’s unknown intruder if they have any hope of making it back to their solar system alive.
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The Morcai Battalion by Diana PalmerIn a future where humans are inferior, cloning is common, and war rages among the many alien races that exist, Dr. Madeline Ruszel, fighting for peace and freedom, is captured by the Centurions and forced to operate on their leader.
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Ninth City Burning by J. Patrick BlackEntire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. Five hundred years later, the Earth is locked in a grinding war of attrition. The talented few capable of bending the universe-altering force known as thelemity to their will are trained in elite military academies, destined for the front lines. But the enemy's tactics are changing, and Earth's defenders are about to discover this centuries-old war has only just begun.
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The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley RobinsonWhat if the Black Death had killed 99 percent of Europe's population? In this sweeping alternate history novel, author Kim Stanley Robinson explores a radically different world in which the Chinese colonize North America, the Industrial Revolution begins in India, and Christianity proves to be more of a historical curiosity than a global religion. The book is divided into ten novella-length sections spanning 700 years.
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