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Sci-Fi in YA Lit Dystopian worlds, space, robots, and beyond!
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Dystopian Worlds (If you like The Hunger Games...)
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Carve the Mark
by Veronica Roth
Living on a violent planet where everyone manifests a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from opposing countries, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners. Simultaneous eBook.
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Children of Eden : a novel
by Joey Graceffa
As an illegal second child hiding from the world and living vicariously through her twin brother, Rowan makes a reckless decision to go out into the world for one night of adventure and becomes a renegade on the run
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Crazy house
by James Patterson
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row
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Delirium
by Lauren Oliver
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, she falls in love
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Divergent
by Veronica Roth
In a dystopian future-era Chicago, 16-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she uncovers powerful secrets and truths about her identity, her family and the order of her society.
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The fever king
by Victoria Lee
Sixteen-year-old Noam, a technopath, is thrust into the magical elite of the nation of Carolinia, where he learns the science behind his magic, secretly planning to use it against the government to protect refugees fleeing magical outbreaks
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The 5th wave
by Richard Yancey
Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them
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Ink and bone : The Great Library
by Rachel Caine
Working in an alternate universe where the Great Library of Alexandria survived destruction, Jess is torn between his employers and his family's black-market book ring before an illegal innovation leads to a terrible discovery.
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The marrow thieves
by Cherie Dimaline
In a world where most people have lost the ability to dream, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous boy who is still able to dream struggles for survival against an army of "recruiters" who seek to steal his marrow and return dreams to the rest of the world
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Matched
by Allyson Braithwaite Condie
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate--until Ky Markham's face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black.
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Pawn
by Aimée Carter
Desperate to escape a life of marginalization and misery, Kitty Doe joins the most powerful family in the country, a choice that requires her to assume the identity of the Prime Minister's niece and stop a rebellion that ended her predecessor's life.
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The Testing
by Joelle Charbonneau
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
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Uglies
by Scott Westerfeld
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all
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Unwind
by Neal Shusterman
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
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Variant
by Robison E. Wells
After years in foster homes, 17-year-old Benson Fisher applies to New Mexico's Maxfield Academy in hopes of securing a brighter future, but instead he finds that the school is a prison and no one is what he or she seems.
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Outer Space, Robots, & Tech
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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.
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Brightly burning
by Alexa Donne
Hoping to escape poverty by taking a governess position on a private spaceship, Stella initially welcomes the ship's generous water supply, books and friendly AI robot before confronting disturbing rumors about the ship's links to a conspiracy that has the potential to topple the entire interstellar fleet, in a lush, futuristic reimagining of Jane Eyre.
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Cinder
by Marissa Meyer
When Cinder, a gifted cyborg with a mysterious past, becomes entangled with the handsome Prince Kai, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle to save humankind from a deadly plague and ruthless lunar beings.
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Contagion
by Erin Bowman
Responding to a distress call on the distant planet of Achlys, Thea Sadik and her search-and-rescue crew are confronted by a zombie-like outbreak that forces them to uncover a monstrous enemy
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Dare mighty things
by Heather Kaczynski
The rules are simple: You must be gifted. You must be younger than twenty-five. You must be willing to accept the dangers that you will face if you win. Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Gupta's entire life has been leading up to this -- the opportunity to travel to space. But to secure a spot on this classified mission, she must first compete against the best and brightest people on the planet. People who are as determined as she to win a place on a journey to the farthest reaches of the universe. Cassie is ready for the toll that the competition will take; the rigorous mental and physical tests designed to push her to the brink of her endurance. But nothing could have prepared her for the bonds she would form with the very people she hopes to beat. Or that with each passing day it would be more and more difficult to ignore the feeling that the true objective of the mission is being kept from her. As the days until the launch tick down and the stakes rise higher than ever before, only one thing is clear to Cassie: she'll never back down... even if it costs her everything
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The Diabolic
by S. J Kincaid
Growing up alongside a galactic senator's daughter she is sworn to protect, Nemesis is forced to assume her charge's identity when a power-mad Emperor attempts to thwart a rebellion against his corrupt forces.
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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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The eye of minds
by James Dashner
When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael, a skilled Internet gamer, is called upon to seek him and his secrets out
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Heart of iron
by Ashley Poston
Ana, an orphan found drifting through space, joins with an Ironblood boy to find the coordinates of a lost space ship which may hold clues to her identity, as they end up discovering dark secrets in a forgotten part of the universe
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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.
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Nemesis
by Brendan Reichs
Murdered every two years by the same mysterious person before waking up unhurt with all evidence erased, Min resolves to end the violent cycle before uncovering a conspiracy involving her classmates, a boy who suffers from destructive nightmares and a giant asteroid on a collision course with the Earth. By the co-author of the Virals series.
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Nyxia
by Scott Reintgen
Recruited by a mysterious corporation for a mission in outer space, an ordinary teen joins a group of fellow travelers, each of whom must earn the right to travel down to a paradise planet where the universe's most valuable mineral has been discovered.
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Rabbit & Robot
by Andrew Smith
Stranded aboard the lunar cruise ship Tennessee, Cager Messer and his best friend, Billy, both sixteen, are surrounded by insane robots while watching thirty simultaneous wars turn Earth into a toxic wasteland
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These broken stars
by Amie Kaufman
The first novel in a sweeping science fiction trilogy tells a timeless love story about hope and survival in the face of unthinkable odds as two star-crossed lovers, Lilac and Tarver, must fight for survival when they crash land on a seemingly uninhabited planet.
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Beyond! (Steampunk, Cyberpunk, Speculative Fiction, etc.)
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Maximum Ride : the angel experiment
by James Patterson
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose
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The apocalypse of Elena Mendoza
by Shaun David Hutchinson
A teen born via parthenogenesis to a virgin mother discovers her baffling ability to heal when she saves her longtime crush from a gunshot wound, a situation that is complicated by other seeming miracles and manifestations. By the award-winning author of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley.
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Class: The stone house
by A. K. Benedict
When Tanya keeps having bad dreams about a girl trapped in the old stone house around the corner, Tanya and her friends go to investigate the strange house covered in cobwebs and stumble onto their own worst nightmares come to life
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Generation one
by Pittacus Lore
A standalone sequel to the best-selling I Am Number Four series takes place a year after the events of United as One and finds Earth's teens attending the newly created Garde academy, where they learn to hone abilities triggered by Loric energy.
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Gone
by Michael Grant
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.
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Heir apparent
by Vivian Vande Velde
Trapped in the dangerous game of Heir Apparent, Giannine is forced to obtain a magic ring, find stolen treasure, solve the dwarf's stupid riddles, and slay a dragon--among other challenges--in order to survive. Jr Lib Guild. Reprint.
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Mortal engines
by Philip Reeve
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another
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Ready player one
by Ernest Cline
Immersing himself in a mid-21st-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's super-wealthy creator, who has promised that the winner will be his heir.
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Red Rising
by Pierce Brown
A tale set in a bleak future society torn by class divisions follows the experiences of secret revolutionary Darrow, who after witnessing his wife's execution by an oppressive government joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy
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Replica
by Lauren Oliver
Escaping from the clandestine research facility where they were created, two replicas, or human modelsùknown more by their numerical designations than by their individual namesùteam up with a sickly girl who has mysterious family ties to the facility. By the best-selling author of Before I Fall.
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Scythe
by Neal Shusterman
Forced to become trained killers in a disease-free world where people can only die if eliminated by professional assassins, teens Citra and Rowan reluctantly train under a master reaper who informs them that the one who successfully kills the other will become his apprentice. By the best-selling author of the Unwind dystology.
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Steelheart
by Brandon Sanderson
At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners--the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny
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Under their skin
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
From the New York Times best-selling author comes the first book in a brand-new thrilling series about twins who are on a quest to discover the secrets being kept by their new family—specifically, WHY their new stepsiblings are being kept hidden away.
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Warcross
by Marie Lu
A teen hacker and competitive bounty hunter who tracks down rule breakers of a wildly popular alternate-reality game accidentally glitches herself into a championship tournament, where she becomes an overnight sensation before being recruited as a spy for the game's billionaire developer.
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Your one & only
by Adrienne Finlay
A solitary, naturally flawed human in a world of perfect clones struggles to understand his existence while unexpectedly falling for a clone, Althea-310, who harbors a growing suspicion that she is different from her clone sisters.
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