English professor Dale Hoberman is out of his depth as a visiting professor at Oxford. His one comfortable social connection is with a man long dead. In his spare time, he takes on the task of analyzing the possessions of Martin...
Science fiction
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Author:Coldwell, ElizabethSummary: - Author:Martine, ArkadySummary:
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will...
- Author:Gray, ClaudiaSummary:
The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite's hands in the final installment of the Firebird trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray. Ever since she used the Firebird, her parent's invention, to cross...
- Author:Garcia, S. A.Summary:
Stranded on a moon smelling of rotten eggs with tunnel ghouls attempting to eat him, Captain Tanner N’tirant meets a legend and finds the truth is a lot hotter than the myth. A scorned mother landed him on this rock, and while sleeping...
- Author:LaValle, Victor D.Summary:
A glittering landscape of twenty-five speculative stories that challenge oppression and envision new futures for America—from N. K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, Charlie Jane Anders, Hugh Howey, and more.
In...
- Author:Asprin, RobertSummary:
Captain Willard Phule has whipped his band of troops into shape and they are no longer the laughingstock of the Legion. Now his company is deployed to help an underdeveloped planet. What better way to utilize their major area of...
- Author:Bradbury, RaySummary:
Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork--a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression. This collection of sixteen selected shorter works explores the origins of that...
- Author:Sappingfield, EliotSummary:
Thirteen-year-old Nikola Kross's world is turned upside down when her father is abducted by aliens and she is suddenly transported to a special boarding school for geniuses, but things get even stranger when she realizes she has certain...
- Author:Chambers, BeckySummary:
In A Psalm for the wild-built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Earth gained self-awareness and laid down their tools;...
- Author:Brown, Roseanne A.Summary:
After a violent coup, Karina is the most wanted person in Sonande. Yet she is the key to restoring balance to a chaotic world. To lure her back to their side, Malik must regain the trust of the one he once tried to kill.
- Author:Armstrong, KelleySummary:
"A great read." --Charlaine Harris In this series debut from New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, a modern-day homicide detective finds herself in Victorian Scotland--in an unfamiliar body--with a killer on the loose. May...
- Author:Geron, EricSummary:
Edward Dinnissen, Crown Prince of Canada, doesn't know how to tell his parents or country that he's gay. Billy Boone runs into Edward in NYC and finds that they're long-lost twins, changing their lives forever.
- Author:Ireland, JustinaSummary:
Long before the Clone Wars, the Empire, or the First Order, the Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in a golden age known as the High Republic! Vernestra Rwoh is a new Jedi Knight at age sixteen, but her first real assignment feels an...
- Author:Owens, ZahraSummary:
History is written by the biased victors, leaving only their view intact. Future civilizations are now trying to learn from the past, sending agents Niall and Dafydd to record lost perspectives from destroyed cultures. To achieve this,...
- Author:Ramsey, Sherry D.Summary:
"Luta and the crew of the Tane Ikai end up stranded in an unknown solar system when they respond to a mysterious distress call."--
- Author:Lindsay, DavidSummary:
Best known for its influence on literary greats such as C.S. Lewis and later J.R.R. Tolkein, A Voyage to Arcturus explores the nature of good and evil by combining fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction. Maskull, a simple man, decides...
- Author:L'Engle, MadeleineSummary:
After their scientist father vanishes, a strange midnight visitor leads Meg and her brothers through a wrinkle in time to try and save him.
- Author:Corey, James S. A.Summary:
For generations, the solar system -- Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt -- was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has appeared in Uranus's orbit, where it has...
- Author:Gear, W. MichaelSummary:
The second book in a thrilling sci-fi action adventure, set on Donovan, a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the planet's colonists. New York Times bestselling author W....
- Author:Chabot, JasonSummary:
Hokk is a criminal outcast who has been scavenging the bodies that fall from the sky to Below for meagre treasures to help him survive. Elia hails from the floating kingdoms in the skies of Above, where the islands' edges are borders no...
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