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Science Fiction October 2019
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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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Dark age
by Pierce Brown
Outlawed by the Republic he founded, Darrow wages a destructive war on Mars; while heir-in-exile Lysander struggles to overcome or unite the treacherous Gold families. By the best-selling author of Morning Star.
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Waste tide
by Qiufan Chen
An exploited lowest-caste factory worker, her ruthless employer, an American corporate representative and his heritage-seeking translator intersect when a dark futuristic virus is unleashed on a major Chinese technological site, triggering a war between the classes.
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Noir fatale
by Larry Correia
"NEW SCIENCE FICTION, URBAN FANTASY, AND MYSTERY STORIES WITH A NOIR THEME FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHORS LAURELL K. HAMILTON delivering an Anita Blake series story, LARRY CORREIA, penning a Grimnoiir series adventure, an original Honor Harrington series talefrom DAVID WEBER, AND MORE. The silky note of a saxophone. The echoes of a woman's high heels down a deserted asphalt street. Steam rising from city vents to cloud the street-lit air. A man with a gun. A dame with a problem.
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Recursion
by Blake Crouch
"That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome--a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent. As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face to face with an opponent more terrifying than any disease--a force that attacks not just our minds, but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it. But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?"
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Radicalized
by Cory Doctorow
Offers four science fiction novellas about America's near future, including "Radicalized," a story about violent uprisings against insurance companies.
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The future of another timeline
by Annalee Newitz
A geologist desperate to change the past and a teen rebel who has witnessed a history-changing murder are swept up in a secret historical war in a parallel-world America where time travel is possible.
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War girls
by Tochi Onyebuchi
A tale set in a Black Panther-inspired Nigeria follows the experiences of two sisters in a 22nd-century world devastated by war and climate change who fight against violence and political unrest to secure a safe and peaceful life together. By the author of Crown of Thunder.
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Falling free by Lois McMaster BujoldWhen an assignment takes engineer Leo Graff to Cay Habitat, he discovers hundreds of helpless children called quaddies being exploited for corporate gain, but adopting them is just the start--he must teach the quaddies the meaning of freedom. Winner of the Nebula Award.
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Pandora's star
by Peter F. Hamilton
When the twenty-fourth-century arrival of human colonists in a faraway system unleashes a race of aliens formerly imprisoned within a giant force field, the aliens, having fought for centuries over scarce resources, turn to human space to fulfill their wants. By the author of The Reality Dysfunction and Fallen Dragon.
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Gateway : a novel by Frederik PohlThe Heechee gateways, remnants of an ancient civilization, provide instantaneous passage to the far reaches of the universe but do not ensure destination, return, wealth, or survival, in a new edition of the classic original novel from the author's award-winning series.
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Revelation space
by Alastair Reynolds
Convinced that solving the disappearance of the planet Amarantin's native race a million years earlier is vital to his own people's survival, Dan Silvester finds himself targeted when he learns that the truth could alter the fabric of the universe.
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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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