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Science Fiction April 2024
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Open Minds, Open Worlds"Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them..."― Stephen SpielbergWelcome 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 digital library for more information.
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The Sunlit Man
by Brandon Sanderson
Putting distance between himself and the relentless Night Brigade has been Nomad’s strategy for years. But now, Nomad finds himself trapped on Canticle, a planet that will kill anyone who doesn’t keep moving. Fleeing the fires of a sunrise that melts the very stones, he is instantly caught up in the struggle between a heartless tyrant and the brave rebels who defy him.
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Ghost Station
by S. A. Barnes
While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of a space-borne madness.
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Beautyland
by Marie-Helene Bertino
At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different in that she possesses knowledge of a faraway planet.
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The Mars House
by Natasha Pulley
A queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee. Natasha Pulley's new novel is a gripping story about privilege, strength, and life across class divisions, perfect for readers of Sarah Gailey and Tamsyn Muir.
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It's the end of the world as we know it....
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After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopiaby Ellen Datlow (Ed.)An anthology of short stories set in post-apocalyptic or dystopian futures follows the survival efforts of teens in various worlds that have been decimated by war, natural disasters or alien invasions and includes contributions by such best-selling and award-winning authors as Gregory Maguire, Garth Nix and Jane Yolen.
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The Standby Stephen KingA monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, Colorado.
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Severance
by Ling Ma
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. She goes to work and watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend, barely noticing when Shen Fever sweeps through the city. As families flee, her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city she calls home.
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter.
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Against a Dark Background
by Iain Banks
Lady Sharrow was once the fearless leader of a combat team in one of the sporadic little commercial wars in the vicinity of the planet Golter. Now she is hunted by the Huhsz - a religious cult hellbent on assassinating her. Sharrow's flight through the exotic Golterian system is a destructive and savage odyssey into her past, and that of her family and of the system itself.
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Ball Lightning
by Cixin Liu
After witnessing his parents' bizarre death by ball lightning, Chin uncovers a new frontier in particle physics that pits him against a weapons-obsessed army major and an unscrupulous physicist. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Three-body Problem.
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The Long Earth
by Terry Pratchett
Finally finding the mecca of isolation in a distant region known as the High Meggas, Larry Lynsey, a recluse who is aggressively protective of his singular solitude, finds his quiet existence shattered by the arrival of two accidental tourists. Soon, he will do everything is his power to make them leave.
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Ship Breaker
by Paolo Bacigalupi
In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce and grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. When teenage scavenger Nailer discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, he faces the most important decision of his life: strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its beautiful lone survivor.
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