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8381) Unremembered
Author
Series
Unremembered trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A girl, estimated to be sixteen, awakens with amnesia in the wreckage of a plane crash she should not have survived and taken into foster care, and the only clue to her identity is a mysterious boy who claims she was part of a top-secret science experiment.
8382) Inversions
Author
Series
Culture Universe series volume 6
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
"On a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr. Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. ... Elsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the protector General of Tassasen."--Jacket.
8384) Into the mist: a novel
Author
Series
Into the mist (Cast) volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The world as we know it ends when an attack on the U.S. unleashes bombs that deliver fire and biological destruction. Along with sonic detonations and devastating earthquakes, the bombs have also brought the green mist. If breathed in, it is deadly to all men—but alters the body chemistry of many women, imbuing them with superhuman abilities. A group of high school teachers heading home from a conference experiences firsthand the strength of these...
8385) Transcendental
Author
Series
Transcendental novels volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Riley, a veteran of interstellar war, is one of many beings from many different worlds aboard a ship on a pilgrimage that spans the galaxy. However, he is not journeying to achieve transcendence, a vague mystical concept that has drawn everyone else on the ship to this journey into the unknown at the far edge of the galaxy. His mission is to find and kill the prophet who is reputed to help others 'transcend'"--
8386) Ape and essence
Author
Publisher
Elephant Paperbacks/I.R. Dee
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2108, a rediscovery expedition from New Zealand arrives in a post-nuclear Los Angeles and tries to make sense of what is left of the survivors. Huxley wrote this in 1948 as a response to the use of atomic weapons in WWII and the emerging Cold War.
8387) The abyss beyond dreams
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A clash of cultures in the Void pits humanity against a shape-changing alien species, and sees if two warring races can ever cooperate enough to free themselves from their mutual prison"--
8388) If tomorrow comes
Author
Series
Yesterday's kin volume 2
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the Aliens left Earth, humanity succeeds in building a ship, Friendship, to follow them home to Kindred. Aboard are a crew of scientists, diplomats, and a squad of Rangers to protect them. But when the Friendship arrives, they find nothing they expected. No interplanetary culture, no industrial base-and no cure for the spore disease. A timeslip in the apparently instantaneous travel between worlds has occurred and far more than ten...
8389) Those that wake
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"New York City, once vibrant and alive, has lost its spirit. People walk the streets with their heads down and their eyes averted, withdrawing from each other and into the cold comfort of technology. Teenagers Mal and Laura have grown up in this new reality: Mal in the city, part of the foster care system; Laura in the suburbs, loved and protected. They've never met. Seemingly, they never will. But then their worlds shift. On the same day Mal learns...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand for women. But a confrontation with an abusive troll has taken a horrifying turn, and now she's at rock bottom: canceled and doxxed online, fired from her waitress job and fortressed in her apartment while men's rights protestors rage outside. All that once glittered now condemns. Sasha confides in...
8391) Eve & Adam
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
While recuperating after a car accident in Spiker Biotech's lush San Francisco facilities, sixteen-year-old Evening Spiker meets Solo Plissken, a very attractive, if off-putting boy her age who spent his life at Spiker Biotech. Like Evening, he's never questioned anything ... until now. Solo drops hints to Evening that something isn't right, and Evening's mother may be behind it. Evening puts this out of her mind and begins her summer internship project:...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Pineapple Place, an invisible street that moves from city to city and keeps its inhabitants the same age forever, is threatened with change when nine-year-old Jeremiah becomes bored and makes contact with the outside world.
8393) Providence
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson are astronauts captaining a new and supposedly indestructible ship in humanity's war against an alien race. Confined to the ship for years, each of them holding their own secrets, they are about to learn there are threats beyond the reach of human ingenuity--and that the true nature of reality might be the universe's greatest mystery. In this near future, our world is at war with another, and humanity is haunted...
Author
Series
Awesome Dog 5000 volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Marty, Ralph, and Skyler create their own superhero personas, while Awesome Dog's biggest fan becomes Townville's newest supervillain and creates a team of robot kittens that challenge the robot dog in his most dangerous battle yet"--
Author
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In 1921 when he is on his deathbed, Russian anarchist Peter A. Kropotkin is given a chanceto be reborn. Now it is 1999 and he is on a plane on his way to Richmond, Virginia with no money, shelter, or plans of any kind, and in a body four decades younger than it was at his "death."
8397) Hybrids
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Complex biomechanical hybrids, made with alien gene-splicing techniques and spawned in an underground facility deep below New Mexico, threaten the world, while the U.S. president rages against the scientists who have kept him in the dark. Human science proves ineffectual against the hybrids, and humanity's only hope lies in the first generation of hybrids, Mark and Gina, who are unaware of their own origin and hidden superpowers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After escaping the runaway spaceship, George finds himself on a barren Earth where society is under corporate control, access to technology is restricted, and the uneducated population is swamped with fake news.
8400) The cold between
Author
Series
Central Corps (Elizabeth Bonesteel) volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the stars, a young officer and her lover are plunged into a murder mystery and a deadly conspiracy in this first entry in a stellar military science-fiction series in the tradition of Lois McMaster Bujold. When her crewmate, Danny, is murdered on the colony of Volhynia, Central Corps chief engineer, Commander Elena Shaw, is shocked to learn the main suspect is her lover, Treiko Zajec. She knows Trey is innocent-- he was with her when Danny...
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