Science Fiction

The Dragon Keeper, Mindy Meija

A zookeeper fights to save the animal she loves, even as her own life crumbles around her… Mindy Mejia’s gripping debut novel highlights the perils of captivity and the astonishing ways in which animals evolve. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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The Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi

Coming in the spring of 2015, The Water Knife is a story set in the American Southwest as the dwindling water supply from the Colorado River ignites unrest, a growing division of rich vs. poor, and the struggle for survival. See the New York Times for more on the acquisition […]

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The Peripheral, William Gibson

In a presumably late-21st Century/early-22nd Century timeframe, somewhere in the rural South of the United States of America, in a world that is slowly going to hell but in which technology which is now, in the early 21st Century, in its infancy, is commonplace and well advanced from the state […]

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The Ark, Annabel Smith

The year is 2041. As rapidly dwindling oil supplies wreak havoc worldwide a team of scientists and their families abandon their homes and retreat into a bunker known as The Ark, alongside five billion plant seeds that hold the key to the future of life on Earth. But The Ark’s […]

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Mother of Storms, John Barnes

It is 2028. A strike to destroy an illegal Arctic weapons cache has a catastrophic side effect. Massive amounts of energy are liberated from the polar ice, suddenly and radically warming the Earth’s climate. Reviews Back to GoodReads

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Time of the Great Freeze, Robert Silverberg

For centuries, men had lived miles beneath the ground in order to survive the great Ice Block that had submerged the earth. In an attempt to resume human contact, Jim Barnes, his father and several other daring men emerge from a subterranean New York to cross the frozen Atlantic. Reviews […]

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Angel of Chaos, Nina Munteanu

Nina Munteanu’s Angel of Chaos is a gripping blend of big scientific ideas, cutthroat politics and complex yet sympathetic characters that will engage readers from its thrilling opening to its surprising and satisfying conclusion. -Hayden Trenholm, Aurora-winning writer of The Steele Chronicles Reviews Back to GoodReads

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Darwin’s Paradox, Nina Munteanu

A devastating disease. A world on the brink of violent change. And one woman who can save it or destroy it all. Julie Crane must confront the will of the ambitious virus lurking inside her to fulfill her final destiny as Darwin’s Paradox, the key to the evolution of an […]

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Hieroglyph, Neal Stephenson (Various)

Project Hieroglyph brings scientists and science fiction writers together to create positive visions of the future. From the Hieroglyph website: This anthology unites twenty of today’s leading thinkers, writers, and visionaries—among them Cory Doctorow, Gregory Benford, Elizabeth Bear, Bruce Sterling, and Neal Stephenson—to contribute works of “techno-optimism” that challenge us […]

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The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell

From Goodreads: “Another genre-bending novel by David Mitchell also channels Stephen King and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.” This book is new as of September 2, 2014. It’s a YA novel with some environmental themes. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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Wasteland, Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan

Welcome to the Wasteland. Where all the adults are long gone, and now no one lives past the age of nineteen. Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan’s post-apocalyptic debut is the first of a trilogy in which everyone is forced to live under the looming threat of rampant disease and brutal […]

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The New Atlantis, Ursula K. Le Guin

A vision of hope sinking and hope rising, in an America paralyzed by corporate control of government while sea levels rise catastrophically due to human-caused climate change. First published in The New Atlantis and Other Novellas of Science Fiction, edited by Robert Silverberg, 1975, the scarily prescient story was nominated […]

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Maximum Ride – Series, James Patterson

This series has also been adapted as manga. The Maximum Ride novels for young adults feature 6 teenagers who are 98% human and 2% avian. Later in the series, global warming becomes an issue for the teenagers to face. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads Goodreads […]

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Hainish Cycle – Series, Ursula K. Le Guin

Each book stands alone, although all books in the cycle are set in the same universe. Works are not numbered, as author says: “People write me nice letters asking what order they ought to read my science fiction books in — the ones that are called the Hainish or Ekumen […]

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