Category Archives: science fiction
The Leveller – Julia Durango
Nix earns money for her college fund by working as a bounty hunter in the virtual world of MEEP. When kids stay hooked up to their virtual world too long, having adventures in their virtual world while their body remains … Continue reading
The Dead Mountaineer’s Inn: One More Last Rite for the Detective Genre – Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
Take one remote mountain inn in an unnamed country, add a ghost, an assortment of eccentric guests which of course includes a police inspector, throw in a locked-room murder and you have a recipe for the classic murder mystery. Include … Continue reading
A Thousand Pieces of You – Claudia Gray
Marguerite’s brilliant scientist parents have received funding from a giant tech corporation to develop their parallel universe theories. Their two grad student assistants, Paul and Theo, are treated like family. When it appears Paul has killed her father and escaped … Continue reading
Fish Tails – Sheri S. Tepper
The babies, Gailai and Bailai are adorable, smiling and laughing, trying to talk. They’re just like most babies, until you notice their feet, and the tank of water in which they live, and the tiny gills under their arms. They … Continue reading
Stitching Snow – R. C. Lewis
Tough and gritty Essie has carved out a life on the desolate and frozen mining planet of Thanda. She is a cage fighter who is also handy with programming and engineering. She has created drones to help with the mining, … Continue reading
The Here and Now – Ann Brashares
A future devastated with pollution and widespread epidemics leads a group to time travel to the past to carve out a better life. They assimilate somewhat into the community but must follow strict rules to avoid damaging the time line. … Continue reading
Salvage – Alexandra Duncan
Many generations into the future, there are “tribes” that live on space ships. Ava is the eldest daughter of the leader of the Parastrata ship and a repressive society where women are seen as useful in breeding stock only. Other … Continue reading
Elusion – Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam
Regan’s father devoted his life to developing Elusion, a computer program that enables people to mentally escape from their polluted world to a pristine virtual world free of worries. His partner was boy genius, Patrick, who is Regan’s best friend. … Continue reading
Dangerous – Shannon Hale
Maisie Brown enters a contest for a week at space camp. Teams at camp train for missions with the top team earning a trip up the space elevator to an asteroid. While in space the five teens are exposed to … Continue reading
Into the Still Blue – Veronica Rossi
This is the final book in the trilogy that began with Under the Never Sky and followed with Through the Ever Night. Often a trilogy will have a book that doesn’t quite live up to high expectations set in the first … Continue reading
Vitro – Jessica Khoury
Sophie Crue travels all the way to Skin Island on the outskirts of Guam to get to her mother after receiving a cryptic email from her. In Sophie’s eyes, her mother is a hero, performing miracles and medical breakthroughs on … Continue reading
Avalon – Mindee Arnett
Teenager Jeth is the heroic protector of his crew in this sci-fi action thriller. Jeth’s parents were respected for their expeditions into deep space especially in an odd section of space where mysterious things happened. When they were killed, Jeth … Continue reading
These Broken Stars – Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Lilac LaRoux is the beautiful daughter of the most powerful corporate owner in the universe. She is riding on one of his interdimensional space ships when it suddenly lurches out of hyperspace. She and the young military hero, Tarver, get … Continue reading
Parasite – Mira Grant
Sally was dead. The car wreck destroyed her brain and her body is being kept alive artificially. Her family gathered around and prepared to turn off life support so that her organs might be harvested and used for others. Abruptly, … Continue reading
Relativity – Cristin Bishara
Ruby Wright is trapped in a life that just doesn’t seem to fit her. She and her dad moved to a small town in Ohio when her Dad remarried after her Mom’s death, forcing Ruby to leave behind her best … Continue reading
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