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Open Minds, Open Worlds"If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear."― Gene RoddenberryWelcome 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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A Better World
by Sarah Langan
A family jumps at the chance to trade a crumbling world for a pristine utopia, but their discomfort mounts as sinister secrets behind the enclave's idyllic façade are revealed.
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The Last Murder at the End of the World
by Stuart Turton
On the island it is idyllic: 122 villagers and three scientists living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they’re told by their beloved scientists. Until one of the scientists is found brutally stabbed, triggering a lowering of the island’s security system, the only thing that is keeping the deadly fog at bay. If the murder isn’t solved within ninety-two hours, the fog will smother the island―and everyone on it.
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Ocean's Godori
by Elaine U. Cho
When her best friend, Teo, second son of the Anand Tech empire, is framed for murdering his family, disgraced space pilot Ocean Yoon and her ragtag crew are pushed to the forefront of a high-stakes ideological conflict, which turns out to be the least of their worries.
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Annie Bot by Sierra GreerAnnie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she’s not the greatest at keeping Doug’s place spotless, but she’s trying to please him. She’s trying hard. She’s learning, too...
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Some Desperate Gloryby Emily TeshSince she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. When Command assigns her brother to certain death while relegating her to Nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands.
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The Stars are Legion
by Kameron Hurley
Zan wakes with no memory, prisoner of a people who say they are her family. She is told she is their salvation, the only person capable of boarding the Mokshi, a world-ship with the power to leave the Legion. But Zan’s new family is not the only one desperate to gain control of the prized ship. Zan finds that she must choose sides in a genocidal campaign that will take her from the edges of the Legion’s gravity well to the very belly of the world.
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The Seep
by Chana Porter
Living in a utopian world shaped by alien invaders who make any dream possible, a 50-year-old trans woman is devastated by the end of her marriage before an unexpected quest pits her against the aliens' most avid supporters.
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Star Wars : Ronin
by Emma Mieko Candon
Far on the edge of the Outer Rim, one former Sith wanders, accompanied only by a faithful droid and the ghost of a less civilized age. He carries a lightsaber, but claims lineage to no Jedi clan, and pledges allegiance to no lord. Little is known about him, including his name, for he never speaks of his past, nor his regrets. His history is as guarded as the red blade of destruction he carries sheathed at his side.
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Red Rising
by Pierce Brown
This tale set in a bleak future society torn by class divisions follows the experiences of secret revolutionary Darrow, who after witnessing his wife's execution by an oppressive government, joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy.
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Iron Widow
by Xiran Jay Zhao
Offering herself up as a concubine-pilot to assassinate the man responsible for her sister's death, 18-year-old Zetian discovers her true destiny as an Iron Widow and must use her strength to force her society to stop failing its women and girls.
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I am Legend
by Richard Matheson
A lone human survivor in a world that is overrun by vampires, Robert Neville leads a desperate life in which he must barricade himself in his home every night and hunt down the starving undead by day.
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Slow River
by Nicola Griffith
Awakening in an alley, naked, bleeding, and missing her identity implant, Lore Van Oesterling, the daughter of a powerful family, finds a chance to reinvent herself with the help of the data pirate Spanner.
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