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Science Fiction April 2022 |
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Open Minds, Open Worlds“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel….is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”― Ursula K. Le Guin
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 app or ask a librarian about our NC Digital Library for more information.
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The Apollo Murders
by Chris Hadfield
In 1973, NASA is about to launch Apollo 18. While the mission has been billed as a scientific one, flight controller Kazimieras "Kaz" Zemeckis knows there is a darker objective. Intelligence has discovered a secret Soviet space station spying on America, and Apollo 18 may be the only chance to stop it. With political stakes stretched to the breaking point, the White House and the Kremlin can only watch as their astronauts collide on the lunar surface, far beyond the reach of law or rescue.
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The Paradox Hotel
by Rob Hart
In the Paradox Motel, where ultra-wealthy guests can take “flights” to the past, head of security January Cole finds her job getting harder, especially when a corpse shows up in room 526. The Paradox Motel is a time-twisting murder mystery and a story about grief, memory, and what it means to—literally—come face-to-face with our ghosts.
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
by John Scalzi
When an old acquaintance desperately needs her help, Jamie Gray is transported to an alternate dimension where she must save large creatures called Kaiju from others who have found their way to the world—and who threaten humankind back on Earth with their carelessness.
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Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves by Meg LongOn a frozen wasteland of a planet, a girl is on the run with a wolf who is born to be a killer but bound to be her guide. As they fight to escape ice goblins, giant bears, and a ruthless leader intent on trapping them both, one question drives them relentlessly forward: where do you turn when there is nowhere to hide?"
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret AtwoodIn this Arthur C. Clarke Award winner and Booker Prize nominee, Republic of Gilead handmaid Offred struggles to survive in a world where women are no longer allowed to read or work, but whose value now lies in their ability to birth children. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, but now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.
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Parable of the Sowerby Octavia E ButlerIn 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small, gated community.
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Red Clocks
by Leni Zumas
Five women—including a high school teacher, a biographer, a frustrated mom, a pregnant adopted teen, and a forest-dwelling homeopath—struggle with changes in a near-future America where abortion and assisted fertility have been outlawed and where homeopaths are targeted by modern-day witch hunts.
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Vox
by Christina Dalcher
Marginalized in a near-future America where the government limits women to no more than 100 spoken words daily, before outlawing women's education and employment altogether, a former doctor resolves to be heard for the sake of her daughter.
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The Forever War
by Joe W. Haldeman
Drafted into the military to battle the Taurans in interstellar space, William Mandella rises through the ranks quickly -- or slowly, depending on one's perspective. For Mandella, his career spans mere months. To outsiders, he's been serving his planet for over 1,000 years, due to the wonders of faster-than-light travel. A millennium of combat leads to moving meditations on the nature of war in this thought-provoking novel.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
by Le Guin, Ursula K.
The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary’s mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose—and change—their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters.
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Embassytown
by China Miéville
Retaining a tenuous peace on a distant planet in the far future, humans and aliens work together through a mutually beneficial economic arrangement that is threatened by the arrival of a new group of humans that destabilizes the world's balance.
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Exhalation : Stories
by Ted Chiang
A long-awaited short story collection by the author of "The Story of Your Life" explores revelatory ideas and second chances in such tales as, "In the Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," "Exhalation" and "The Lifecycle of Software Objects."
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