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Hugo: 2024
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South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION TESH 2023
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SCIENCE FICTION TESH 2023
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1 copy, 5 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. They are what's left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a...
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Nebula: 2024
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CHANDR 2023
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION CHANDR 2023
1 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CHANDR 2023
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION CHANDR 2023
1 available
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"The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern life, resulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant. Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down hissainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechism, lost his shadow, and...
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Hugo: 2023
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Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
FICTION KINGFI 2022
1 available
FICTION KINGFI 2022
1 available
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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With her signature mix of the grim and the delightful, award-winning author T. Kingfisher takes the old bones of fantasy and fairytale and makes them into something entirely new in this enchanting adventure. After years of seeing her sisters suffer at the hands of an abusive prince, Marra--the shy, convent-raised, third-born daughter--has finally realized that no one is coming to their rescue. No one, except for Marra herself. Seeking help from a...
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Nebula: 2023
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4 copies, 46 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War “Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” -- Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F....
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Teixcalaan novels volume 2
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Hugo: 2022
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION MARTIN 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION MARTIN 2021
1 available
Description
"An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass--still reeling from the recent upheaval in the Empire--face the impossible task of trying to communicate with a hostile entity....
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Nebula: 2022
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION CLARK 2021
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION CLARK 2021
1 available
Description
"Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djeli Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one...
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Murderbot diaries volume 5
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Hugo and Nebula: 2021
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3 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
Description
"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
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Series
Teixcalaan novels volume 1
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Hugo: 2020
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
Description
"A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it."Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice. Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death...
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Nebula: 2020
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION PINSKE 2019
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION PINSKE 2019
1 available
Description
In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star. Now, in the After, terror attacks and deadly viruses have led the government to ban concerts, and Luce's connection to the world--her music, her purpose--is closed off forever. She does what she has to do: she performs in illegal concerts to a small but passionate...
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Series
Lady astronaut novels volume 1
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Hugo and Nebula: 2019
On Shelf
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION KOWAL 2018
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION KOWAL 2018
1 available
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION KOWAL 2018
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION KOWAL 2018
1 available
Description
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York's experience...
11) The stone sky
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Series
Broken Earth novels volume 3
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Hugo and Nebula: 2018
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2017
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2017
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2017
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2017
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted...
12) The obelisk gate
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Series
Broken Earth novels volume 2
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Hugo: 2017
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2016
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2016
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2016
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISI 2016
1 available
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISO 2016
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION JEMISO 2016
1 available
Description
"Essun--once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger--has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power--and her choices will break the world"-- Provided by publisher.
The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster...
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Nebula: 2017
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Northwest Reno Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ANDERS 2016
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION ANDERS 2016
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION ANDERS 2016
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION ANDERS 2016
1 available
Description
Reunited as adults, childhood friends Patricia Delfine, who is magically gifted, and Laurence Armstead, an engineering genius, discover that something bigger than either of them has brought them together to either save the world, or plunge it into a new Dark Ages.
"From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world--and the beginning of our futureChildhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect...
Author
Series
Broken Earth novels volume 1
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Hugo: 2016
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3 copies, 16 people are on the wait list.
Description
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.
15) Uprooted
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Nebula: 2016
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 4 people are on the wait list.
Description
Agnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. The...
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Series
Remembrance of Earth's past volume 1
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Hugo: 2015
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Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION LIU 2014
2 available
SCIENCE FICTION LIU 2014
2 available
South Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION LIU 2014
2 available
SCIENCE FICTION LIU 2014
2 available
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Incline Village Library - Adult Fiction - Audiobook Shelf
CD SCIENCE FICTION LIU 2014
1 available
CD SCIENCE FICTION LIU 2014
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Description
"With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the...
17) Annihilation
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Southern Reach novels volume 1
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Nebula: 2015
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3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Description
Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
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Imperial Radch volume 1
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Hugo and Nebula: 2014
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren --a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. An act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with only one fragile human body. And only one...
19) Redshirts
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Hugo: 2013
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North Valleys Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SCALZI 2012
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION SCALZI 2012
1 available
Sierra View Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SCALZI 2012
1 available
SCIENCE FICTION SCALZI 2012
1 available
Description
Enjoying his assignment with the xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose.
20) 2312
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Nebula: 2013
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From the acclaimed author of New York 2140 and Red Mars, this NYT bestselling novel tells the story of a future where humanity has populated miraculous new habitats engineered across the solar system — and the one death that triggers a precarious chain of events that could destroy it all.
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's...
The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's...