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Life On Mars : Tales from the New Frontier : an Original Science Fiction Anthology
Mars! The Red Planet! For generations, people have wondered what it would be like to travel to and live there. That curiosity has inspired some of the most durable science fiction, including Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and the work of Isaac Asimov. Now the award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan has brought together thirteen original stories to explore the possibilities. After reading Life on Mars , readers will never look at the fourth planet from the sun the same way again.
333 p. ; 22 cm. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Adams, Douglas
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
After Earth is demolished to make way for a new hyperspatial expressway, Arthur Dent begins to hitch-hike through space.
309 p. 2005
Adult Fiction Book
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Anderson, M. T.
Feed
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
237 p. 2002
Teen Fiction Book
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Bacigalupi, Paolo
Ship Breaker
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
326 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Black, Holly
White Cat
When Cassel Sharpe discovers that his older brothers have used him to carry out their criminal schemes and then stolen his memories, he figures out a way to turn their evil machinations against them.
310 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Bodeen, S. A.
The Gardener
When high school sophomore Mason finds a beautiful but catatonic girl in the nursing home where his mother works, the discovery leads him to revelations about a series of disturbing human experiments that have a connection to his own life.
233 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451
Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning ... along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames... never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid.
179 p. 1996
Adult Fiction Book
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Card, Orson Scott
Ender's Game
Boy genius Ender Wiggin attends a battle school where fierce battles are fought in class and behind the scenes. But what is the secret behind the school?
324 p. 2002
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Collins, Suzanne
The Hunger Games
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
374 p. 2008
Teen Fiction Book
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Dashner, James
The Maze Runner
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
375 p. 2009
Teen Fiction Book
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Doctorow, Cory
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
In a quirky and dystopian world without money, illness, or death, people store their memories so they don't get bored. Young at 100, Jules works his dream job at Disney World running the Haunted Mansion ride and finds his life in danger as he fights a coup in the Magic Kingdom.
208 p. 2003
Adult Fiction Book
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Farmer, Nancy
The House of the Scorpion
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
380 p. 2002
Teen Fiction Book
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Fisher, Catherine
Incarceron
To free herself from an upcoming arranged marriage, Claudia, the daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, a futuristic prison with a mind of its own, decides to help a young prisoner escape.
442 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Gier, Kerstin
Ruby Red
Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust.
330 p. 2011
Teen Fiction Book
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Gill, David Macinnis
Black Hole Sun
On the planet Mars, sixteen-year-old Durango and his crew of mercenaries are hired by the settlers of a mining community to protect their most valuable resource from a feral band of marauders.
340 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Hautman, Pete
Rash
In a future society that has decided it would rather be safe than free, sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.
249 p. 2006
Teen Fiction Book
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Heath, Jack
Remote Control
Teenage agent Six of Hearts is suspected of being a double agent, which has him on the run from his fellow agents at the Deck while also trying to track down his brother's kidnappers.
326 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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Heinlein, Robert A.
Starship Troopers
With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the Bugs, a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Terran Mobile Infantry.
279 p. 2006
Adult SciFi Fantasy Book
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Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
Huxley's terrifying vision of a controlled and emotionless future "Utopian" society is truly startling in its prediction of modern scientific and cultural phenomena, including test-tube babies and rampant drug abuse.
259 p. 2006
Adult Fiction Book
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Jinks, Catherine
Living Hell
Chronicles the transformation of a spaceship into a living organism, as seventeen-year-old Cheney leads the hundreds of inhabitants in a fight for survival while machines turn on them, treating all humans as parasites.
256 p. 2010
Teen Fiction Book
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