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Atwood, Margaret
The Year of the Flood : a Novel
...the long-feared waterless flood has occurred, altering Earth as we know it and obliterating most human life...Amid shadowy, corrupt ruling powers and new, gene-spliced life forms, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move, but they can't stay locked away.
434 p. 2009
Adult Fiction Book
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Bacigalupi, Paolo
The Windup Girl
What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.
361 p. 2009
Adult Fiction Book
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Banks, Iain
Transition
Sharing nothing in common except links to an organization committed to protecting the world from itself, an assembly of dubious characters including a torturer, a reluctant assassin, and an amnesiac patient confront challenges beyond their imagining.
404 p. 2009
Adult Fiction Book
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Bear, Elizabeth
Chill
The generation ship Jacob's Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within. Now, riding the shock wave of a nova blast toward an uncertain destiny, the damaged ship remains a war zone. Even as Perceval, the new captain, struggles to come to terms with the traumas of her recent past, the remnants of rebellion aboard the ship threaten the crew's survival.
310 p. 2010
Adult Fiction Book
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Bear, Greg
City at the End of Time
Bear's work contains sweeping futuristic vistas populated by creatures spawned from a decaying universe. The young heroes, each assigned to protect a fragment of the universe's history, must survive long enough to pass that knowledge onto the new universe that is being born.
476 p. 2008
Adult Fiction Book
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Bedford, K. A.
Time Machines Repaired While-u-wait
Fixing time machines is a waste of Spider's talent. But he's resigned to do it until he discovers, inside a broken second-hand time machine, the corpse of a woman brutally murdered, wrapped in plastic and duct tape.
324 p. 2008
Adult Fiction Book
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Bell, Alden
The Reapers are the Angels : a Novel
Zombies have infested a fallen America, and a young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, she moves back and forth between the insulated remnants of society and the brutal frontier beyond--seeking salvation and a place to make a home.
225 p. 2010
Adult Fiction Book
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Bova, Ben
Titan
After long months of travel, the gigantic colony ship Goddardhas at last made orbit around Saturn, carrying a population of more than of 10,000 dissidents, rebels, extremists, and visionaries seeking a new life. Among Goddard's missions is the study of Titan, which offers the tantalizing possibility that life may exist amid its windswept islands and chill black seas.
464 p. 2006
Adult Fiction Book
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Chabon, Michael
The Yiddish Policemen's Union : a Novel
In an alternate world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for the Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner Berko investigate the death of a heroin-addicted chess prodigy.
414 p. 2007
Adult Fiction Book
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Doctorow, Cory
Makers
What happens to America when two geeks working from a garage invent easy 3D printing, a cure for obesity, and crowd-sourced theme parks? Lawsuits against Disney are only the beginning in this major novel of the booms, busts, and further booms in store for America in the age of open source and its hero/hacker culture.
416 p. 2009
Adult Fiction Book
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Flynn, Michael
Eifelheim
What's so special about Eifelheim? Father Dietrich is the village priest of Eifelheim, in the year 1348, when the Black Death is gathering strength. To his astonishment, Dietrich makes first contact between humanity and an alien race from a distant star, when their ship crashes in the nearby forest.
320 p. 2006
Adult Fiction Book
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Goonan, Kathleen Ann
In War Times
While studying, Sam is seduced by a mysterious female physicist that is teaching one of his courses, and given her plans for a device that will end the war, perhaps even end the human predilection for war forever. But the device does something less, and more, than that.
348 p. 2007
Adult Fiction Book
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Haldeman, Joe W.
The Accidental Time Machine
Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring subtle quantum forces that relate to time changes in gravity and electromagnetic force, his calibrator turns into a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who has left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose taking a time machine trip himself-or so he thinks.
278 p. 2007
Adult Fiction Book
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Hall, Steven
The Raw Shark Texts
Eric Sanderson wakes up one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to call a Dr. Randle, who informs him that he is undergoing yet another episode of memory loss and that for the last two years--since the tragic death of his great love, Clio, while vacationing in Greece--he's been suffering from an acute disassociative disorder. But there may be more to the story, or it may be a different story altogether.
428 p. 2007
Adult Fiction Book
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Harrison, M. John
Nova Swing
Part broken love story, part noir, part far-reaching science fiction, this long awaited sequel to Harrisons groundbreaking "Light" is poised to break out as the science fiction novel of the year.
252 p. 2007
Adult Fiction Book
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Kress, Nancy
Steal Across the Sky
The aliens appeared one day, built a base on the moon, and put an ad on the internet. At first, everyone thought it was a joke. But it wasn't. This is the story of three volunteers who answered that ad, and what they found on Kular A and Kular B.
317 p. 2009
Adult Fiction Book
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MacLeod, Ken
The Execution Channel
It's after 9/11. After the bombing. After the Iraq war. After 7/7. After the Iran war. After the nukes. After the flu. After the Straits. After Rosyth. In a world just down the road from our own, on-line bloggers vie with old-line political operatives and new-style police to determine just where reality lies.
285 p. 2007
Adult Fiction Book
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Marusek, David
Counting Heads
On a twenty-second-century Earth where life expectancy has increased to span centuries and robots perform most of society's work, a ragtag ensemble of unlikely heroes join forces to save the frozen living head of an assassinated leading citizen's daughter, who represents humanity's only protection against a genocide plot by wealthy immortals.
336 p. 2005
Adult Fiction Book
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Mie´ville, China
The City & the City
Inspector Tyador Borlu´ must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in the city of Besz´el.
312 p. 2009
Adult Fiction Book
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Minister Faust
From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain
After defeating all of their enemies in a global battle in the 1980s, the Fantastic Order of Justice, Earth's most powerful--and dysfunctional--team of super heroes, finds itself adrift in a peaceful world without super villains and without purpose, until Dr. Evan Brain-Silverman is enlisted to help save them from themselves.
390 p. 2007
Adult Fiction Book
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