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1) Dune
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Dune novels. Main series volume 1
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162 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. 4 copies on order.
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71 copies, 61 people are on the wait list.
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68 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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98 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...
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Remembrance of Earth's past volume 1
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111 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
Lexington - Adult
SCIENCE FICTION LIU
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SCIENCE FICTION LIU
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96 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
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96 copies, 62 people are on the wait list.
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76 copies, 42 people are on the wait list.
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"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...
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Murderbot diaries volume 1
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55 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Lexington - Adult
SCIENCE FICTION WELLS
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SCIENCE FICTION WELLS
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24 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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24 copies, 44 people are on the wait list.
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16 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
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A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest...
4) Ender's game
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Ender Wiggin volume 1
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5 copies, 42 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 42 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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Once again, Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. Among the elite recruits Ender proves himself to be a genius...
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Hitchhiker series volume 1
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15 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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15 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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18 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent.
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Teixcalaan novels volume 1
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10 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 12 people are on the wait list.
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"During a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court, 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 wasn't an accident--or that Mahit might be next to die. Now Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue...
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Final Architecture trilogy volume 1
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4 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 26 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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Idris, an enhanced human, and his crew, 50 years after the destruction of the earth by alien aggressors, the Architects, discover something strange in space that many people would kill to obtain--and could herald the return of the enemy.
After Earth was destroyed mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors,...
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7 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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10 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first she's delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn't at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors,...
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Monk & robot volume 1
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17 copies, 67 people are on the wait list.
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17 copies, 67 people are on the wait list.
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13 copies, 33 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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114 copies, 6 people are on the wait list. 1 copy on order.
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52 copies, 396 people are on the wait list.
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52 copies, 396 people are on the wait list.
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"A lone astronaut. An impossible mission. An ally he never imagined. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions...
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108 copies available. 2 copies on order.
Lexington - Adult
SCIENCE FICTION WEIR
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SCIENCE FICTION WEIR
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Lexington - Young Adult
YOUNG ADULT WEIR
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YOUNG ADULT WEIR
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Lexington - Young Adult
[BETWEEN] YOUNG ADULT WEIR
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[BETWEEN] YOUNG ADULT WEIR
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive -- and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though,...
12) Recursion
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7 copies, 57 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 57 people are on the wait list.
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14 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"That's what NYC cop Barry Sutton is learning, as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndrome--a mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived. That's what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. It's why she's dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first...
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30 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
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30 copies, 28 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 32 people are on the wait list.
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"One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college...
14) Upgrade: a novel
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58 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation--and fears that all of humanity may be next--in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion Logan Ramsay can feel his brain... changing. And his body too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything--his...
15) The Dispossessed
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Hainish series volume 1
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25 copies, 3 people are on the wait list. 3 copies on order.
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6 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 18 people are on the wait list.
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"A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras--a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite the two planets, which have been divided by centuries of distrust. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart....
16) Dawn
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Xenogenesis series volume 1
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9 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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7 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
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"When Lilith Iyapo wakes from a deep sleep, she finds herself aboard a vast spaceship, haunted by confused memories of a nuclear war that ravaged the world. She discovers that she is being held by the Oankali, a seemingly benevolent alien race that intervened in the human race's extinction, rescuing the survivors from their ruined planet and placing them in a coma-like sleep for centuries. Now the restored Earth is ready for inhabitants, and the Oankali...
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Imperial Radch volume 1
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42 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. 1 copy on order.
Lexington - Adult
SCIENCE FICTION LECKIE
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SCIENCE FICTION LECKIE
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8 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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8 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 50 people are on the wait list.
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On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren -- a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance.
18) Children of time
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Children of time volume 1
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29 copies, 73 people are on the wait list.
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29 copies, 73 people are on the wait list.
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"The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied....
19) Hyperion
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Hyperion series volume 1
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12 copies, 67 people are on the wait list.
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12 copies, 67 people are on the wait list.
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It is the 29th century and the universe of the Human Hegemony is under threat. Invasion by the warlike Ousters looms, and the mysterious schemes of the secessionist AI TechnoCore bring chaos ever closer. On the eve of disaster, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set fourth on a final voyage to the legendary Time Tombs on Hyperion, home to the Shrike, a lethal creature, part god and part killing machine, whose powers transcend the limits...
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Masquerade (Seth Dickinson) volume 1
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3 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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"Baru Cormorant believes any price is worth paying to liberate her people--even her soul. When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home, overwrites her culture, criminalizes her customs, and murders one of her fathers, Baru vows to swallow her hate, join the Empire's civil service, and claw her way high enough to set her people free. Sent as an Imperial agent to distant Aurdwynn, another conquered country, Baru discovers it's on the brink of rebellion....