Genre: Science Fiction
62 titles found
 | 3001 : the final odysseyClarke, Arthur Charles, 1917-PR6005.L36 A618 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The world in the year 3001 seen through the eyes of an astronaut, revived after a thousand-year sleep. The earth is encircled by space cities, accessed by elevators and education is a breeze, computers enabling the brain to absorb complicated information in milliseconds. By the author of ... |
 | Atlas shruggedRand, Ayn.PS3535.A547 A94 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemies but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You ... |
 | Black sunWilliamson, Jack, 1908-PS3545.I557 B57 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A space mystery featuring one of the faster-than-light ships sent from Earth to colonize the galaxy. This one ends up in the system of the Black Sun and lands on its solitary planet. Several of the crew disappear and one can see their footprints, but how could they walk without space suit... |
 | Bourbaki gambit : a novelDjerassi, Carl.PS3554.J47 B68 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability An experiment by a group of aged scientists, incensed by society's retirement of people because of old age. They band under a pseudonym and come up with an invention in gene reproduction, proving that old age is no obstacle to creativity. By the author of Cantor's Dilemma. |
 | Brave new world : and, Brave new world revisitedHuxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.PR6015.U9 B65 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Contains the text of Huxley's prophetic work and includes his discussion about social problems and the human condition since its publication. |
 | Cat's cradleVonnegut, Kurt.PS3543.O585 C3 1998 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability From the Publisher: Cat's Cradle is Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist; a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer; and a vision of the future that is at... |
 | Childhood's endClarke, Arthur Charles, 1917-PR6005.L36 C45 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability From the Publisher: The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city-intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began. Bu... |
 | Children of menJames, P. D.PR6060.A467 C48 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "The year is 2021, and the human race is - quite literally - coming to an end. Since 1995 no babies have been born, because in that year all males unexpectedly became infertile. Great Britain is ruled by a dictator, and the population is inexorably growing older. Theodore Faron, Oxford hi... |
 | Clockwork orangeBurgess, Anthony, 1917-PR6052.U638 C5 1986 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A juvenile delinquent of the near future tells, in his semi-private language, of his crimes and punishment. |
 | Critical edition of the War of the worlds : H.G. Wells's scientific romanceWells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.PR5774 .W3 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Death as a side effectShua, Ana María, 1951-PQ7798.29.H8 M9413 2010 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Death sentencesKawamata, Chiaki, 1948-PL855.A863 G4613 2012 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Dispossessed : a novelLe Guin, Ursula K., 1929-PS3562.E42 D57 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist moon Anarres, risks his life by traveling to the mother planet of Urras in the hope of offering wisdom to its inhabitants and to reunite the two long-alienated worlds. |
 | Enchantress from the starsEngdahl, Sylvia.PZ7.E6985 En 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When young Elana unexpectedly joins the team leaving the spaceship to study the planet Andrecia, she becomes an integral part of an adventure involving three very different civilizations, each one centered on the third planet from the star in its own solar system. |
 | Fahrenheit 451Bradbury, Ray, 1920-PS3503.R167 F3 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A book burner in a future fascist state finds out books are a vital part of a culture he never knew. He clandestinely pursues reading, until he is betrayed. |
 | FermataBaker, Nicholson.PS3552.A4325 F47 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Arno Strine explains, in his autobiography, about the fermata (or fold) and how he stops time and takes women's clothes off. |
 | Fight Club : a novelPalahniuk, Chuck.PS3566.A4554 F54 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In a confusing world poised on the brink of mayhem, Tyler Durden, a projectionist, waiter, and anarchic genius, comes up with an idea to create clubs in which young men can escape their humdrum existence and prove themselves in barehanded fights. |
 | First men in the moonWells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.PR5774 .F5 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Flowers for AlgernonKeyes, Daniel.PS3561.E769 F56 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When brain surgery makes a mouse into a genius, dull-witted Charlie Gordon wonders if it might also work for him. With more than five million copies sold, Flowers for Algernon is the beloved, classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that o... |
 | Fool's warZettel, Sarah.PS3576 .E77 1997 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Fortunate fallCarter, Raphael.PS3553.A78278 F67 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In a future Russia, Maya Andryevna is a camera, a reporter with virtual reality broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What she sees, millions see, what she feels, millions feel. And what Maya is seeing is the coverup of a massacre, bringing her to the attention of the country's t... |
 | Foundation and empireAsimov, Isaac, 1920-PS3551.S5 F596 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Although small and seemingly helpless, the Foundation had managed to survive against the greed of its neighboring warlords. But could it stand against the mighty power of the Empire, who had created a mutant man with the strength of a dozen battlefleets ...? |
 | FoundationAsimov, Isaac, 1920-PS3551.S5 F59 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari... |
 | Friend of the earthBoyle, T. Coraghessan.PS3552.O932 F75 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "It is the year 2025, and Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in Southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie of the species "only a mother could love" - scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs and three down-at-the-mouth lions. Global warming is a reality... |
 | Game-players of TitanDick, Philip K.PS3554.I3 G3 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | GiverLowry, Lois.PZ7.L9673 Gi 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. |
 | GridKerr, Philip.PR6061.E784 G75 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A computer thriller on a new building in Los Angeles where even the watering of plants is computerized. Just before the official opening the computer and its descendants decide they don't want humans and proceed to kill them, using such weapons as automatic doors and air conditioning. |
 | History makerGray, Alasdair.PR6057.R3264 H57 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In the 23rd Century, war has become a televised sport with its own stars. One of them is Wat Dryhope and this is the story of his exploits, military and erotic, in a Scottish war between clans. |
 | House of the scorpionFarmer, Nancy.PZ7.F23814 Mat 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. |
 | Invisible man : a grotesque romanceWells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.PR5774 .I5 2002b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A young scientist's adventures with refractions of light bring terror to the residents of Burdock. |
 | IslandHuxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.PR6015.U9 I86 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The author's last novel introduces a supposedly Utopian Pacific island where drug use and open sex are encouraged, and children are not at the mercy of one set of parents. In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flouri... |
 | Island of Dr. MoreauWells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.PR5774 .I8 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Written in 1896, The Island of Dr. Moreau is one of the earliest scientific romances. An instant sensation, it was meant as a commentary on Darwin's theory of evolution, which H. G. Wells stoutly believed. The story centers on the depraved Dr. Moreau, who conducts unspeakable animal expe... |
 | Jules Verne's Twenty thousand leagues under the sea : the definitive unabridged edition based on the original French textsVerne, Jules, 1828-1905.PQ2469.V4 E5 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | JupiterBova, Ben, 1932-PS3552.O84 J86 2001 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Grant Archer merely wanted to study astrophysics, to work quietly as an astronomer on the far side of the moon. But the forces of the New Morality, the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run twenty-first-century America, have other plans for him." -- Jacket. |
 | Land that time forgotBurroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950.PS3503.U687 L36 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A captive aboard an enemy submarine, adventurer Bowen Tyler finds himself on the mysterious forgotten continent of Caspak, whose savage inhabitants are dinosaurs and Bronze Age warriors. |
 | Last manShelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.PR5397 .L3 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Best remembered as the author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley wrote The Last Man eight years later, on returning to England from Italy after her husband Percy's death. It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling elite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor,... |
 | Lathe of heaven : a novelLe Guin, Ursula K., 1929-PS3562.E42 L3 2008 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "In a future world racked by violence and environmental catastrophes, George Orr wakes up one day to discover that his dreams have the ability to alter reality. He seeks help from Dr. William Haber, a psychiatrist who immediately grasps the power George wields. Soon George must preserve r... |
 | Left hand of darknessLe Guin, Ursula K., 1929-PS3562.E42 L39 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability While on a mission to the planet Gethen, earthling Genly Ai is sent by leaders of the nation of Orgoreyn to a concentration camp from which the exiled prime minister of the nation of Karhide tries to rescue him. |
 | Looking backward, 2000-1887Bellamy, Edward, 1850-1898.PS1086 .L6 1995 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Man in the high castleDick, Philip K.PS3554.I3 M26 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as coommon as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan... |
 | Maze of deathDick, Philip K.PS3554.I3 M35 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The theology in this novel is not an analog of any known religion. It stems from an attempt made by William Sarill and myself to develop an abstract, logical system of religious thought, based on the arbitrary postulate that God exists. Fourteen strangers came to Delmak-O. Thirteen of the... |
 | Minority reportDick, Philip K.PS3554.I3 M46 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime. He is the originator of the Precrime System, which uses "precogs"--people with the power to see into the future--to identify criminals before they can do any harm. Unfortunately for ... |
 | Moon maidBurroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950.PS3503.U687 M66 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "In the late twentieth century, Admiral Julian 3rd can get no rest, for he knows his future. He will be reborn as his grandson in the next century to journey through space and make an ominous discovery inside the moon; he will live again in the dark years of the twenty-second century as J... |
 | Mount : a novelEmshwiller, Carol.PS3555.M54 M68 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability "Charley is an athlete. He wants to grow up to be the fastest runer in the world, like his father. He wants to be painted crossing the finishing line, in his racing silks, with a medal around his neck. Charley lives in a stable. He isn't a runner, he's a mount. He belongs to a Hoot. The H... |
 | Naked lunchBurroughs, William S., 1914-PS3552.U75 N3 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability The tale of a descent into the hellish world of a narcotics addict as he travels from New York to Tangiers and then into the nightmarish Interzone. |
 | Never let me goIshiguro, Kazuo, 1954-PR6059.S5 N48 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, ... |
 | Now wait for last yearDick, Philip K.PS3554.I3 N6 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A world leader uses his strange ability to die repeatedly and be brought back to life to ward off a global catastrophe. |
 | Oryx and Crake : a novelAtwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-PR9199.3.A8 O79 2003 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated gy ecological and scientific disasters. |
 | Sailing to ByzantiumSilverberg, Robert.PS648.S3 S25 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | Second foundationAsimov, Isaac, 1920-PS3551.S5 S37 2004 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have ... |
 | Soft machineBurroughs, William S., 1914-PS3552.U75 S6 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | SparrowRussell, Mary Doria, 1950-PS3568.U76678 S63 1996 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability A Jesuit leads an expedition to investigate singing emanating from a planet. So are discovered the Runa, intelligent beings, but undernourished. The explorers fix that and a population explosion follows, attracting space-age cannibals who start eating them. The explorers are killed, excep... |
 | Stars are also fireAnderson, Poul, 1926-PS3551.N378 S73 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability On the moon, a war of independence breaks out against the artificial intelligence ruling it. The revolutionaries are Lunarians, genetically altered descendants of human colonists. They are helped in their struggle by two humans--Aleka Kame and Ian Kenmuir--the protagonists of the tale. By... |
 | Story of General Dann and Mara's daughter, griot and the snow dog : a novelLessing, Doris May, 1919-PR6023.E833 S78 2005 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Dann tavels with a snow dog, hunting for knowldge and grappling with despair, while Mara's daughter and Griot embark on a strange adventure, discovering that love and song can bring happiness. |
 | TellingLe Guin, Ursula K., 1929-PS3562.E42 T45 2000 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Earthling Sutty has been living a solitary, well-protected life in Dovza City on the planet Aka as an official Observer for the interstellar Ekumen. Insisting on all citizens being pure "producer-consumers," the tightly controlled capitalist government of Aka--the Corporation--is systemat... |
 | Time machine : an inventionWells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946.PR5774 .T5 2002b Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability When a turn-of-the-century scientist builds a time machine, his perilous journey into the far distant future leads to the discovery of a strange and terrifying new world. |
 | UbikDick, Philip K.PS3554.I3 U24 1991 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again. |
 | Voyage to ArcturusLindsay, David, 1876-1945.PR6023.I58115 V68 2002 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | We can build youDick, Philip K.PS3554.I3 W4 1994 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Th... |
 | Wild boys : a book of the deadBurroughs, William S., 1914-PS3552.U75 W485 1992 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability |
 | World Jones madeDick, Philip K.PS3554.I3 W67 1993 Book Stacks (A-K 3rd Floor, L-Z 2nd Floor) Check availability Floyd Jones rises from carnival fortune teller to postnuclear messiah when he finds he has the ability to make people dream again in a world where dreaming is illegal. |