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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION VALDES 2022
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SCIENCE FICTION VALDES 2022
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The hilarious new novel about the adventures of Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra. Nothing wrecks Captain Eva Innocente’s vacation plans quite like an anonymous threat to vaporize billions of people. Hundreds of monoliths have suddenly materialized in space, broadcasting the same looped message: surrender or be exterminated. Is the universe being epically spammed? Surrender to whom? Exterminated when? And how is Eva, commander...
2) Face
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION WEST 2022
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SCIENCE FICTION WEST 2022
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"In Joma West's Face, Margaret Atwood meets Kazuo Ishiguro in this sci-fi domestic drama that reimagines race and class in a genetically engineered society fed by performative fame. How much is your Face worth? Schuyler and Madeleine Burroughs have the perfect Face-rich and powerful enough to assure their dominance in society. But in SchAddie's household, cracks are beginning to appear. Schuyler is bored and taking risks. Maddie is becoming brittle,...
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION NEVILL 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION NEVILL 2021
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"Ev has a mysterious ability, one that she feels is more a curse than a gift. She can feel the emotions people leave behind on objects and believes that most of them need to be handled extremely carefully, and—if at all possible—destroyed. The harmless ones she sells at Vancouver’s Chinatown Night Market to scrape together a living, but even that fills her with trepidation. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Harriet hoards thousands of these...
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Radiant emperor volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION PARKER 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION PARKER 2021
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION PARKER 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION PARKER 2021
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's She Who Became the Sun, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything "I refuse to be nothing..." In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness......
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION AOKI 2021
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FICTION AOKI 2021
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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"Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts. Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen,...
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION GAILEY 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION GAILEY 2021
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"'When they said all happy families are alike, I don't think this is what they meant...' Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair - with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica. After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan's body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast--before sharing everything includes sharing a jail cell. The Echo Wife...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MERRIL 2012
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SCIENCE FICTION MERRIL 2012
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Johnny Wendt is the sole survivor of an ill-fated expedition to Mars. He doesn't know why he survived or why the mission was so deadly. He has no clue that he has may have brought the reason back to Earth with him!
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction
813.0876 AFROFU 2018
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813.0876 AFROFU 2018
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Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory,edited by Marleen S. Barr, is the first combined science fiction critical anthology and short story collection to focus upon black women via written and visual texts. The volume creates a dialogue with existing theories of Afro-Futurism in order to generate fresh ideas about how to apply race to science fiction studies in terms of gender. The contributors, including...
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MONAE 2022
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SCIENCE FICTION MONAE 2022
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"Whoever controls our memories controls the future. Janelle Monae and an incredible array of talented collaborating creators have written a collection of tales comprising the bold vision and powerful themes that have made Monae such a compelling and celebrated storyteller. Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts-as a means of self-conception-could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and...
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Monk & robot volume 1
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CHAMBE 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION CHAMBE 2021
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...
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Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CHAMBE 2016
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SCIENCE FICTION CHAMBE 2016
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
MP3 SCIENCE FICTION CHAMBE 2019
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MP3 SCIENCE FICTION CHAMBE 2019
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past. And nothing could be further from what she's known than the crew of the Wayfarer."--Page [4] of cover
"Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space - and...
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Hainish series volume 6
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION LEGUIN 2016
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SCIENCE FICTION LEGUIN 2016
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION LEGUIN 2000
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SCIENCE FICTION LEGUIN 2000
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION LEGUIN 2016
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SCIENCE FICTION LEGUIN 2016
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION LEGUIN 1969
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SCIENCE FICTION LEGUIN 1969
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"A deluxe hardcover edition of the queen of science fiction's trailblazing novel about a planet full of genderless beings--part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary's mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose--and change--their...
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The follow-up to Kindred, the #1 bestseller, comes Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking dystopian novel. In this graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind the #1 bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, the author portrays a searing vision of America&;s future. In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that...
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Parable books volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2016
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SCIENCE FICTION BUTLER 2016
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4 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman...
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Books of Ember volume 1
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Northwest Reno Library - Children's Fiction
J FICTION DUPRAU 2003
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J FICTION DUPRAU 2003
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Spanish Springs Library - Children's Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
J CD FICTION DUP 2004 UNABRIDGED
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J CD FICTION DUP 2004 UNABRIDGED
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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.
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Inheritance trilogy (N. K. Jemisin) volume 1
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Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death...
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Great cities trilogy volume 1
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2020
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SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2020
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Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2020
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SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2020
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2020
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SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2020
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"Five New Yorkers must come together in order to save their city from destruction in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every great city has a soul. Some are ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York? She's got six. When a young man crosses the bridge into New York City, something changes. He doesn't remember who he is, where he's from, or even...
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Broken Earth novels volume 1
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Gerlach Community Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2015
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SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2015
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3 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.
19) Remote control
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Northwest Reno Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION OKORAF 2021
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YA FICTION OKORAF 2021
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North Valleys Library - Young Adult Fiction
YA FICTION OKORAF 2021
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YA FICTION OKORAF 2021
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"The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From here on in she would be known as Sankofa--a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past. Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks-alone, except for her fox companion-searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers. But is there...
20) Noor
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION OKORAF 2021
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SCIENCE FICTION OKORAF 2021
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When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts of Northern Nigeria with a Fulani herdsman named DNA in a world where everything is streamed.