Tagged with science fiction
Bloody Sun
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Jun 18 2015
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978-0441068562
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Sword of Aldones
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Feb 2 2015
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This World We Live In
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I tried to remember how people found things out before the Internet existed. They had to have questions, after all, and they couldn't always ask their parents. Or teachers. Or librarians.
Librarians! Librarians always know how to find out things. That was their job even before the internet.
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Jan 28 2015
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9780547813394
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Young Elites, the
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Jan 16 2015
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9780698171725
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Unbreakable
In the follow up to Unraveling, teenager Janelle Tenner is once again called upon to race a clock to prevent deaths. I was less into this version and annoyed by the romance angle, which felt thin and inorganic. Upside: Janelle is a powerful badass, taking out adult men with her weapons and even her bare hands.
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Oct 1 2013
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978-0-06-210376-5
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Unraveling
A San Diego teen gets hit by a car and killed. Then she is brought back to life and learns she has about three weeks to stop the world from being destroyed. Yes. I've hit the point in the academic year, when I can really only handle YA dystopias and novels about werewolves.
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Sep 24 2013
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978-0-06-210373-4
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Diverse Energies
Bucknell and Monti collect mixed-race themed science fiction/dystopic stories, some of which also feature queer characters. Sounds good, right?
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Aug 2 2013
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978-1-60060-887-2
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Parasite
Attempting to fill the void left by her Newsflesh Trilogy, Mira Grant gives us another near-future made dystopic by a health cure gone wrong. This first entry in the Parasitology series brings us likeable characters, a quasi-believable medical threat (though to be honest far less plausible than how she envisioned zombies), corrupt business practices, mad egomaniacal scientists, strained family relationships and two sweet dogs.
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Jul 11 2013
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978-0-316-21895-5
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Age of Miracles, the
Like, wow. Walker can write her pen off. Come for the story of an eleven-year-old-girl's coming of age in a global catastrophe and stay for writing so good it can make the earth spin a little slower to give you time to enjoy it.
reviewdate:
Dec 29 2012
isn:
9780679644385