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Science Fiction
October 2025 |
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Open Minds, Open Worlds “Isn’t that what it means to be a scientist? To push the boundaries of the unknown? To bravely, actively explore the enormity of our universe?” – Robyn Mundell
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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Symbiote
by Michael Nayak
As World War III rages, American scientists in Antarctica face chaos when Chinese scientists arrive with a murder victim, triggering an outbreak of a parasitic, telepathic organism that incites violence among the crew, leaving the survivors to resist the hive mind while preventing the outbreak from spreading.
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Two Truths and a Lie
by Cory O'Brien
In a mostly underwater near-future Los Angeles, aging combat-drone veteran Orr Vue now lives a simple and small life, trading snippets of what's become the most valuable currency: information. So when the cops show up at his door looking for data on a murder he's not even aware has happened, things get interesting for the first time in 25 years. Forced to stretch his atrophied spy skills and take his illegal horde of drones out of retirement, Orr finds himself in the crosshairs of the militarized police, a family of mega-rich corporate heirs, a clan of emancipated AIs, and a cult.
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Spread Me
by Sarah Gailey
Kinsey has the perfect job as the team lead in a remote research outpost. She loves the isolation and the way the desert keeps temptations from the civilian world far out of reach. When her crew discovers a mysterious specimen buried deep in the sand, Kinsey breaks quarantine and brings it inside. But the longer it's there, the more her carefully controlled life begins to unravel.
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These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
by Yiming Ma
In a far-off future ruled by the Qin Empire, every citizen is fitted with a Mindbank, an intracranial device capable of recording and transmitting memories between minds. This technology gives birth to Memory Capitalism, where anyone with means can relive the life experiences of others. It also unleashes opportunities for manipulation: memories can be edited, marketed, and even corrupted for personal gain.
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Descender Vol. 1
by Jeff Lemire
One young robot's struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. A rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey that pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling space opera from the creators of Trillium, Sweet Tooth, and Little Gotham.
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Copperhead
by Jay Faerber
Welcome to Copperhead, a grimy mining town on the edge of a backwater planet. Single mom Clara Bronson is the new sheriff, and on her first day she'll have to contend with a resentful deputy, a shady mining tycoon, a family of alien hillbillies, and a massacre.
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Afar
by Leila Del Duca
In a post-industrial desert wasteland, fifteen-year-old Boetema develops the ability to astral project to other planets. On her own planet, with her parents gone, she and her thirteen-year-old brother, Inotu, must cross a dangerous desert to flee a cyborg bodyguard.
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Dept. H Omnibus
by Matt Kindt
Mia is a special investigator hired to uncover possible sabotage taking place at a deep-sea research station, where a bitter and paranoid crew try to keep the base functional. What she uncovers is a mind-blowing crime scene filled with suspects with terrible secrets, strange deep-sea creatures, and an impending flood.
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The Oxygen Farmer
by Colin Holmes
After 35 years of living on the Moon, cranky old oxygen farmer Millennium Harrison has stumbled onto a hidden facility in the shadows of the Slayton Ridge Exclusion Zone with a radiation leak and a deadly secret. Mil's discovery leads to the death of a young astronaut, sabotage, murder, and cover-ups that may go all the way to the Chief Administrator of the space agency.
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Singer Distance by Ethan ChatagnierIn December 1960, Rick Hayworth drives his genius girlfriend, Crystal, and three other MIT grad students across the country to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time Earth solved one of the mathematical proofs the Martian civilization carved onto its surface. The latest proof, which seems to assert contradictory truths about distance, has resisted human understanding for decades. Crystal thinks she's solved it, and Rick is intent on putting her answer to the test - if he can keep her from cracking under the pressure on the way. But Crystal's disappearance after the experiment will set him on a different path than he expected, forever changing the distance between them.
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Elsewhere
by Alexis Schaitkin
Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, where some mothers vanish by disappearing into the clouds. As her peers begin to marry and become mothers, they speculate about who might be the first to go, each wondering about her own fate. Reveling in their gossip, they witness each other in motherhood, waiting for signs: this one devotes herself to her child too much, this one not enough—that must surely draw the affliction’s gaze. When motherhood comes for Vera, she is faced with the question: Will she be able to stay and mother her beloved child, or will she disappear?
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Even Greater Mistakes
by Charlie Jane Anders
A collection of short stories from the best-selling author of All the Birds in the Sky includes the tale of a pair of psychics who date and of a popular slapstick filmmaker who begins working with a fascist militia.
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