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The six
by Mark Alpert
Adam, crippled by muscular dystrophy, and five other terminally ill teenagers sacrifice their bodies and upload their minds into weaponized robots to battle a dangerously advanced artificial intelligence program bent on destroying humanity
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Feed
by M. T. Anderson
A rerelease of a National Book Award finalist is set in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains and follows the story of Titus, whose spring break vacation to the moon is disrupted by a hacker and a beautiful, intelligent girl who decides to fight her implant's messages. Reprint.
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Losers in space
by John Barnes
In 2029, hoping to bypass the exams and training that might lead to a comfortable life, Susan, her almost-boyfriend Derlock, and seven fellow students stow away on a ship to Mars, unaware that Derlock is a sociopath with bigger plans.
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Ender's game
by Orson Scott Card
An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction
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Deadly Design
by Debra Dockter
When his genetically engineered identical twin dies of a heart attack, Kyle learns about the deaths of other genetically modified teens and investigates the work of the mysterious doctor responsible for their talents and flaws. Simultaneous eBook.
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On the edge of gone
by Corinne Duyvis
Assigned to a temporary shelter as part of a planet-wide effort to survive an imminent comet strike, Denise, a girl with autism, worries about her sister's disappearance and her mother's worsening drug addiction before she is invited to join a ship of strictly useful people whose goal is to colonize a new planet.
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Michael Vey : the prisoner of cell 25
by Richard Paul Evans
Michael Vey, a fourteen-year old who has Tourette's syndrome and special electric powers, finds there are others like him, and must rely on his powers to save himself and the others from a diabolical group seeking to control them
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The house of the scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States
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Starship Troopers
by Robert A. Heinlein
In a futuristic military adventure, a recruit goes through the roughest boot camp in the universe, and he prepares for battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry in what historians would come to call the First Interstellar War against humankind's most terrifying enemy. Book available.
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The edge of forever
by Melissa E. Hurst
In 2146, seventeen-year-old Bridger, one of a small group of people born with the ability to travel to the past, investigates why his by-the-book father traveled to 2013 to break the most important rule of time travel--to prevent someone's murder
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Brave new world
by Aldous Huxley
Describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom
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No true Echo
by Gareth P. Jones
When the pretty and oddly familiar Scarlett joins his class and reveals that she is a Senior Echo Time Agent from the future, Eddie joins her investigation into the origins of time travel before learning a dangerous truth about his late mother. By the award-winning author of The Considine Curse. 15,000 first printing.
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Illuminae
by Amie Kaufman
Caught in the crossfire of a megacorporation rivalry in 2575, Kady and Ezra, who have just broken up, flee their home planet on an evacuation ship that is quickly overwhelmed by a fast-spreading plague. Simultaneous eBook.
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Zeroboxer
by Fonda Lee
An up-and-coming weightless combat athlete prepares for the Zero Gravity Fighting Association championship while partnering with a beautiful Martian marketing strategist who renders him an Earth celebrity before he stumbles into a criminal plot. Original.
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Surfacing
by Mark Magro
"In a postapocalyptic world, sixteen-year-olds Zoe and Balt must escape an underground research institute and find their way to the surface in order to learn once and for all the truth about themselves, the institute, and the fate of the human race"--Provided by publisher"
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Infinityglass : An Hourglass Novel
by Myra McEntire
Working with the Hourglass organization to locate the missing Infinityglass before it falls into the wrong hands, Lily, whose powers give her an ability to locate missing objects, realizes that the Infinityglass is actually a person
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The knife of never letting go
by Patrick Ness
Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World.
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1984
by George Orwell
Classic / British English Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people's lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something that the Party cannot control something like love, perhaps?
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Meteor Men
by Jeff Parker
"On a summer night, Alden Baylor sits in a field watching the largest meteor shower in human history. What begins as teenage adventure becomes something more - the celestial event brings travelers who will change the world completely, and Alden discoversa connection to one of them. How does a young man who had to grow up fast handle the invasion of his planet? Can Alden keep humanity from oblivion? From writer Jeff Parker (Aquaman, Hulk) and artist Sandy Jarrell (Batman '66) comes this story of adolescence, friendship, and hard decisions."--Back cover
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Across the universe
by Beth Revis
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet 300 years in the future, but her frozen slumber abruptly ends 50 years too soon, not as the result of a computer malfunction but because someone on board the ship has tried to murder her. A debut novel. 200,000 first printing.
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Tankborn
by Karen Sandler
Kayla and Mishalla, two genetically engineered non-human slaves (GENs), fall in love with higher-status boys, discover deep secrets about the creation of GENs, and find out what it means to be human
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The dark side of nowhere
by Neal Shusterman
A rerelease of a classic tale by the best-selling author of the Skinjacker trilogy finds 14-year-old Jason facing an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens who stayed on earth following a botched invasion. Simultaneous.
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The last universe
by William Sleator
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem
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The abyss surrounds us
by Emily Skrutskie
Cassandra Leung--a seventeen-year-old trainer of Reckoners, sea beasts bred to defend ships--is kidnapped by the pirate queen Santa Elena and ordered to train a Reckoner pup to defend Santa Elena's ship
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Skinned
by Robin Wasserman
When her family uses their wealth to buy the best technology of the day and download their deceased daughter's being into a new, human-looking body that never ages, the life she knew is forever changed when she is rejected by her human friends for being the freak she has become. Reprint.
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The bar code tattoo
by Suzanne Weyn
Things for Kayla progress from bad, as in being told her computer grades disqualify her from an art scholarship, to worse, when she refuses to accept an identification bar code tattoo on her seventeenth birthday
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Twin spica
by Kō Yaginuma
"In a Tokyo of the not-too-distant future a young girl looks up to the stars with melancholy in her heart and hope in her eyes. Thirteen-year-old Asumi Kamogawa's whole life has been tied to those stars; her future may very well be among them. And she isnot alone... Asumi is just one of many young people with ambitions to become a member of the first class admitted to the Tokyo Space School. In this first volume Asumi is put to the test to determine if she has what it takes to get into this elite space academy. Her struggles do not begin in the classroom or at the test site, though. First Asumi has to convince herself and her father that she ultimately belongs amongst the stars."--P. [4] of cover
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