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Publisher
Smart Pop, an imprint of BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Go deeper into the complexities of Orson Scott Card's classic novel with science fiction and fantasy writers, YA authors, military strategists, including: Aaron Johnston on Ender and the evolution of the child hero; Matt Nix on Ender's Game as a guide to life, and Neal Shusterman on the ambivalence toward survival that lies at the heart of Ender's story.
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Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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Description
Charles Yu, time travel technician, helps save people from themselves in Minor Universe 31, a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction. When he's not taking client calls, Yu visits his mother and searches for his father, who invented time travel and then vanished. Accompanied by TAMMY, an operating system with low self-esteem, and a nonexistent but ontologically valid dog named Ed, and using a book titled "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional...
123) Foreign legions
Series
Ranks of Bronze volume 2
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
128) Exhalation
Author
Language
English
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Description
“The universe began as an enormous breath being held.” From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Othersthe basis for the Academy Award nominated film Arrivalcomes a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories. These are tales that tackle some of humanitys oldest questions along with new quandaries only Ted Chiang could imagine. In “The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate,”...
129) Lilith's brood
Author
Series
Xenogenesis trilogy volume 1-3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Lilith Lyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected, by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But Lilith and all humanity must now share the world with uncanny, unimaginably alien creatures: Their own children. This is their story.
In an...
Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
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...
131) Noir fatale
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"NEW SCIENCE FICTION, URBAN FANTASY, AND MYSTERY STORIES WITH A NOIR THEME FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHORS LAURELL K. HAMILTON delivering an Anita Blake series story, LARRY CORREIA, penning a Grimnoiir series adventure, an original Honor Harrington series tale from DAVID WEBER, AND MORE. The silky note of a saxophone. The echoes of a woman's high heels down a deserted asphalt street. Steam rising from city vents to cloud the street-lit air. A man with...
137) Miles errant
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Truth and Consequences. Miles' attempt to juggle both his identities, Admiral Naismith and Lieutenant Lord Vorkosigan, crashes when a new player enters the game: the brother he never knew he had, Mark Pierre. First unified edition includes Borders of Infinity, Brothers In Arms, and Mirror Dance
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This all-new collection of twenty-three wildly entertaining stories takes readers back to the 1970s, where future-forward women changed science fiction forever with stories that made female community, agency, and sexuality central to the American future.
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