The alien shapeshifters called the Chitauri were defeated by the Ultimates in a decisive battle, but suspicious activity leads the Ultimates to believe that not all of the aliens were destroyed in that cataclysmic attack. Stark...
Science fiction
- Author:Irvine, AlexanderSummary:
- Author:Brody, JenniferSummary:
Captain Aero Wright leads a group insurgents from the Second Continuum to overthrow his rival, Supreme General Vinick, and unite his space colony's military forces while Seeker takes on a secret mission back to her home colony to...
- Author:Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:
Volume 1 of Ursula K. Le Guin's best short stories explores her earthbound stories which range around the world from small town Oregon to middle Europe in the middle of revolution to summer camp.
- Author:Guin, Ursula K. Le.Summary:
Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley' s Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many readers see the...
- Author:Fadugba, FemiSummary:
During arguably the worst week of Esso's life, an accident knocks him into an incredible world, a place beyond space or time, where he can see glimpses of the past and future. But if what he sees there is true, he might not have...
- Author:Light, AlexSummary:
When Becca Hart is teased for not having a boyfriend, she impulsively pretends she's been secretly seeing someone. Overhearing the lie, Brett steps in. It's the perfect solution: until the line between real and pretend begins...
- Author:Robertson, JohnSummary:
By the latter half of the third decade of the twenty-first century AD, ten years after the Paris Agreement on climate change, humankind has begun to make meaningful progress in curtailing its greenhouse gas emissions. Will it be enough...
- Author:Liu, CixinSummary:
A short story collection from New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu. The title story, "The Wandering Earth," was a blockbuster international film, currently streaming on Netflix. These 11 stories, including five Chinese...
- Author:Wells, H. G.Summary:
In The War in the Air, the astonishingly prophetic vision of H. G. Wells reveals how one invention can change the world. Before the World Wars, Wells predicted that airplanes would be used for bombing, that urban areas would become...
- Author:Wells, H. G.Summary:
Humanity's worst fears come true in this grand science fiction adventure. Through telescopes fixed on faraway planets, scientists begin noticing strange events on the surface of Mars. Soon after, a mysterious object lands in the middle...
- Author:Crewe, MeganSummary:
Sixteen-year-old old Kaelyn challenges her fears, finds a second chance at love, and fights to keep her family and friends safe as a deadly new virus devastates her island community.
- Author:Itäranta, EmmiSummary:
Eliana is a weaver in the prestigious House of Webs, but she has a secret--she can dream, an ability forbidden by the island's council of elders. When a girl is found unconscious with Eliana's name tattooed on her palm, Eliana will have...
- Author:Baxter, StephenSummary:
The Wheel. A ring of ice and steel turning around a moon of Saturn, and home to a mining colony supplying a resource-hungry Earth. It's a bad place to grow up. The colony has been plagued by problems. Maybe it's just gremlins...
- Author:Black, HollySummary:
After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. When it becomes all too clear that someone close to Jude means to betray her, threatening her own life and the lives of everyone...
- Author:Burroughs, William S.Summary:
A futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates...
- Author:Palmer, AdaSummary:
The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location. The...
- Author:Bradley, Marion ZimmerSummary:
A member of the Terran Spaceforce finds himself drawn into the unmapped heart of the Darkovan mountain ranges, away from the trade city into an ancient battle that is to shape the destiny of more than one world.
- Author:Bartlett, Claire ElizaSummary:
She survived the curse. Now she must survive the throne. All Ekata wants is to stay alive—and the chance to prove herself as a scholar. Once Ekata's brother is finally named heir to the dukedom of Kylma Above, there will be nothing...
- Author:Simak, Clifford D.Summary:
Two classic novels and a short story collection from the legendary Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author in one volume. This volume from an icon of the Golden Age of science fiction includes: City: In this International Fantasy Award-...
- Author:Simak, Clifford D.Summary:
Multiple masterpieces of science fiction from a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author in one volume. From a master of the Golden Age of science fiction, this collection includes: Way Station:Enoch Wallace lives a secluded life in the...