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Science Fiction February 2020
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Welcome to the FCPL Science Fiction newsletter! This monthly newsletter provides reading suggestions for science fiction books both new and old. All of the titles can be found at a library in the NC Cardinal system. Looking for even more titles to read? Just connect with one of your knowledgeable local librarians; they are more than happy to help!
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In this Issue
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Upcoming EventsCheck out our out-of-this-world website for a schedule of upcoming library events!
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A beginning at the end
by Mike Chen
Four survivors try to rebuild their personal lives six years after a global pandemic brings about a literal apocalypse.
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Agency
by William Gibson
A sequel to the best-selling The Peripheral finds app-whisperer Verity Jane beta-testing a disturbing AI technology, while a century into the future, an apocalypse survivor discovers his employer meddling in Verity’s influential timeline.
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A longer fall
by Charlaine Harris
A sequel to An Easy Death finds Lizbeth Rose going undercover with an old friend when a transport job involving a stolen crate threatens an alternate-world Dixie with a violent rebellion.
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Zed : a novel
by Joanna Kavenna
In an identity-challenged world dominated by a global media and tech corporation that anticipates every human need, a murder-by-robot case reveals either a deadly human error or the work of a paradigm-changing hacker.
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Anyone : a novel
by Charles Soule
When a botched experiment leads to the unexpected development of consciousness-transferring technology, a scientist witnesses the havoc of her innovation throughout two subsequent decades of body-rental violence, entertainment and warfare.
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Lost fleet : dauntless
by Jack Campbell
Returning from survival hibernation and assuming the command of the Alliance fleet, legendary hero Captain John "Black Jack" Geary must retrieve the stolen Syndic hypernet key to save the Alliance from destruction at the hands of the Syndics.
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The Forever War
by Joe W. Haldeman
Military SF. 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, originally published in 1974, which won the Nebula, Hugo, and Locus awards.
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Old man's war
by John Scalzi
Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that the conflict involves much more than he understands.
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On Basilisk Station
by David Weber
Instead of remaining out of sight during her assignment to a forlorn outpost, spaceship commander Honor Harrington, along with her vessel, the Fearless, performs incredible flying maneuvers to stop a foreign takeover of a major space station.
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Meet me in the future : stories by Kameron HurleyIn these edgy, unexpected tales, a body-hopping mercenary avenges his pet elephant, and an orphan falls in love with a sentient starship. Fighters ally to power a reality-bending engine, and a swamp-dwelling introvert tries to save the world--from her plague casting former wife. So come meet Kameron Hurley in the future. It's weirder--and far more hopeful--than you could ever imagine.
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Storm of locusts
by Rebecca Roanhorse
Monster hunter Maggie Hoskie learns that her best friend Kai has fallen in with a cult led by a mysterious Navajo man known as White Locust, but her trust in herself and her friend are tested to the breaking point when she learns of White Locust's plans for the Big Water world.
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The last astronaut
by David Wellington
"A tense and thrilling sci-fi adventure of space exploration and first contact, perfect for fans of The Martian, Arrival, and Interstellar. Sally Jansen was NASA's leading astronaut, until a mission to Mars ended in disaster. Haunted by her failure, she now lives in semiretirement, convinced her days in space are over. She's wrong. A large alien object has entered the solar system and is now poised above the Earth. It has made no attempt to communicate and has ignored all incoming transmissions. With no other living astronauts to turn to, NASA wants Jansen to lead an expedition to the object. For all the dangers of the mission, it's the shot at redemption she always longed for. But as the object slowly begins to reveal its terrifying secrets, what began as a journey to make First Contact becomes a desperate struggle for survival...and one thing becomes horribly clear: the future of humanity lies in Jansen's hands."
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