Marcus creates a chilling world where the speech of children is killing their parents. After being forced to leave their daughter Esther to fend for herself, Sam and Claire end up at a government lab intent on creating non-lethal speech...
Science fiction
- Author:Marcus, BenSummary:
- Author:Jordan, RobertSummary:
The Chosen are free and already planning for the Great Day of Return, when the Dark One will walk the Earth again. And their thoughts and plots turn inevitably to the capture of the Dragon Reborn.
- Author:Fox, BrandonSummary:
Rhan knows what it means to bear the daemon’s visible mark. The Empire claimed and culled his childhood friend, and he has never forgiven the government for its callousness. When Rhan is assigned to help Imperial soldiers find a...
- Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-...
- Author:Jordan, RobertSummary:
Book One of The Wheel of Time : Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again.
- Author:Whitehead, John W.Summary:
Welcome to 2084. Be warned: utopia does not await us. The dystopian future that George Orwell predicted for 1984 has finally arrived, one hundred years late and ten times as brutal. To save all that he loves, Orwell will have to travel...
- Author:Ravn, OlgaSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare. Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The...
- Author:England, M. K.Summary:
The Breakfast Club meets Guardians of the Galaxy in this YA sci-fi adventure by debut author M. K. England.
Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it’s not exactly a surprise when he’s kicked out of... - Author:Malley, GemmaSummary:
In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.
- Author:Blakemore, Megan FrazerSummary:
Mori and her friends Julia, Benji, and Theo have never seen life beyond the walls of their perfect society, Old Harmonie. That changes when their new friend Ilana is threatened by the rules that are supposed to keep them all safe. They...
- Author:WYNDHAM, JohnSummary:
Planet Earth is blinded by a cosmic meteor shower and the triffids, walking, semi-intelligent and dangerous plants, seize their opportunity to establish their dominance. The human survivors of the disaster must fight to survive.
- Author:Pohl, FrederikSummary:
Just as medicine is not a science, but rather an art--a device, practised in a scientific manner, in its best manifestations--time-travel stories are not science fiction. Time-travel, however, has become acceptable to science fiction...
- Author:PATTERSON, JamesSummary:
Fifteen-year-old alien hunter Daniel X is on a mission to finish the job that killed his parents - to wipe out the world's most bloodthirsty aliens on The List. At the number-one spot, The Prayer is Daniel's ultimate target....
- Author:Brett, Peter V.Summary:
New York Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett brings one of the most imaginative fantasy sagas of the twenty-first century to an epic close. For time out of mind, bloodthirsty demons have stalked the night, culling the human race to...
- Author:HILL, DouglasSummary:
Del Curb, interstellar courier and self-styled hero, has in his possession a sleeping 21st century astronaut whom he intends to use to gain undreamed of wealth. But then his plans begin to go awry.
- Author:DuPrau, JeanneSummary:
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
- Author:CLARKE, Arthur CSummary:
In "The City and the Stars", the only man born among immortals wants to find out what lies beyond the city.
- Author:BILBROUGH, NormanSummary:
Toby, Rebecca and Sandra are on holiday north of Auckland when a woman from another time begins to communicate with them through an old photograph. Sceptical at first, the three are gradually drawn into the quest to find a new leader...
- Author:Haldeman, Joe W.Summary:
Things are going nowhere for lowly MIT research assistant Matt Fuller--especially not after his girlfriend drops him for another man. But then while working late one night, he inadvertently stumbles upon what may be the greatest...
- Author:Watts, PeterSummary:
Having trouble seeing God's image in the Rwandan genocide, or finding the Third Reich and the Sistine Chapel compatible? No matter how we excuse our own brutality - covering it up in religion, motherhood, or politics - we're...