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Science Fiction at Immaculate Conception High School
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Nonfiction
Aldiss, Brian Wilson. Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction. 808.83 Ald
Explores the history of science fiction from its beginnings in the English Romantic Era to present day.
Perret, Patti. The Faces of Science Fiction: Photographs. 813.009 Per
Portraits of eighty-two prominent American science fiction writers are accompanied by brief statements about their lives and work.
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction: The Definitive Illustrated Guide. 809 Ult
With two hundred fifty color photographs and fifty black-and-white duotones, this up-to-date encyclopedia offers readers the very best from the millions of words, sounds, and images written, filmed, and recorded about the science fiction genre.
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Fiction
Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Fic Ada
Seconds before Earth is demolished to make room for a galactic freeway, an earthman is saved by his friend. Together they journey through the galaxy.
Also try:
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Life, the Universe, and Everything.
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish.
Mostly Harmless.
Anderson, M. T. Feed. Fic And
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Asimov, Isaac. Fantastic Voyage. Fic Asi
Five people are minaturized and sent on a rescue mission through a man's body where they have sixty minutes to reach and break up a blood clot in his brain.
Also try:
Fantastic Voyage II: Destination Brain.
Asimov, Isaac. I, Robot. Fic Asi
Dr. Susan Calvin, the first great practitioner of the new science of robopsychology in 2008, looks back on her career with U.S. Robotics on the occasion of her retirement fifty years later, telling stories of how the mechanical race developed.
Asimov, Janet. The Norby Chronicles. FIC ASI
Jeff Wells bought the cheapest robot he could find. He didn't really know what he had purchased. He didn't know about robots and their strange capacity for human emotions among other things.
Bova, Ben. To Fear the Light. FIC BOV
The brilliant astrophysicist, Adela de Montgarde has awakened from a two hundred year sleep to find the Empire transformed including her own son as the Emperor, faster-than-light travel has been achieved, and humanity has moved out to many new planets in the solar system.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Fic Bra
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.
Bradbury, Ray. The Martian Chronicles. Fic Bra
The first Earth people to attempt the colonization of Mars try to build their new world in the image of the civilization they left behind.
Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. FIC BUT
The odyssey of a sensitive young woman in a world that has become almost completely dehumanized. Set in California in the years 2024 through 2027.
Card, Orson Scott. Enderverse Series. FIC CAR
The Earth is under attack by an alien race known as “buggers” and the only one who can stop them is a boy named Andrew “Ender” Wiggins.
Ender's Game.
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story.
Ender's Shadow.
Shadow of the Hegemon.
Shadow Puppets.
Shadow of the Giant.
Ender in Exile.
Speaker for the Dead.
Xenocide.
Children of the Mind.
Clarke, Arthur Charles. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Fic Cla
The spacecraft Discovery journeys to the outer edge of the solar system, and two navigators become uneasy when Hal, the craft's talking computer system, demonstrates unusual behavior.
Cochran, Molly. World without End. Fic Coc
Sam Smith becomes a target of assassins after he discovers a clue to the location of the lost continent of Atlantis, but he is transported out of their reach when he travels into the past where he gains the knowledge that may help him save the world of his own time.
Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. Fic Col
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annual Hunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girls are pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.
Also try:
Catching Fire.
Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park. FIC CRI
An account of the attempt, through a hair-raising twenty-four hours on a remote jungle island, to avert a global emergency--a crisis triggered by today's rush to commercialize genetic engineering.
Also try:
The Lost World: A Novel.
Crichton, Michael. Prey. Fic Cri
A cloud of nanoparticles programmed as a predator and capable of self-reproduction escapes from a Nevada laboratory and makes the human population its target.
Farmer, Nancy. The House of the Scorpion. Fic Far
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.
Feintuch, David. Midshipman's Hope. FIC FEI
Young officer Nicholas Seafort is left to guide 300 colonists and crew members aboard a damaged ship on a dangerous seventeen-month journey to the colony of Hope Nation after all the senior officers assigned to the UNS Hibernia are killed in an accident.
Heinlein, Robert A. The Number of the Beast. Fic Hei
When two male and two female supremely sensual, unspeakably cerebral humans find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies--and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller coaster ride of adventure and danger, ecstasy and peril.
Heinlein, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land. Fic Hei
After his arrival on Earth from his home on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith becomes the founder and pastor of a new religious sect.
Herbert, Frank. Dune. Fic Her
The story of a young prince, Paul Artreides, scion of a star-crossed dynasty, and of his journey from boy to warrior to ruler of a dying planet destined to become paradise regained.
Kotzwinkle, William. Doctor Rat. FIC KOT
This is an unforgettable indictment of man's inhumanity to man, and to all living things. Macabre humor and bitter irony. This fast-talking rodent is mankind's apologist in an animal experimentation laboratory grotesquely similar to a Nazi concentration camp.
Fic LeG Le Guin, Ursula K. The Left Hand of Darkness.
An official from an interplanetary federation is called in to arbitrate peace on a planet whose inhabitants are technically advanced, androgynous, and have telepathic powers.
Lewis, C. S. Out of the Silent Planet. FIC LEW
The adventure begins for Dr. Ransom when he is abducted by aliens and taken by spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra.
Also try:
Perelandra.
Lewitt, S. N. Songs of Chaos. PB SF Lew
In the futuristic world in which he lives, Dante McCall, the only person not genetically identical to everyone else, is branded a freak, banished from Earth, and stranded among a strange star-faring culture.
Lowry, Lois. The Giver. Fic Low
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas become the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he now lives.
McCaffrey, Anne. The Death of Sleep. Fic McC
A psychiatrist expects a two month cryogenic sleep, but doesn't awake for 62 years.
McCaffrey, Anne. Dinosaur Planet. Fic McC
A crew is sent to Ireta to catalogue fauna, flora, and search for new energy sources, but the results of their investigations were unexpected. Then suddenly members of the crew began to change. What caused the change?
McCaffrey, Anne. Dragonflight. Fic McC
Lessa, the last of the bloodline of Ruatha, disguises herself as a kitchen drudge, biding her time until she can reclaim her birthright, but her plans are changed with she is pressed into service as a Weyr woman to the new dragon queen and charged with helping rebuild the dragon force in time to combat an attack of the deadly Thread.
Also try:
The White Dragon.
Dragonsong.
Dragonsinger.
Dragondrums.
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern.
All the Weyrs of Pern.
The Dolphins of Pern.
McCaffrey, Anne. Killashandra. FIC MCC
Aware that her presence on Ballybran constitutes a threat to her lover, Killashandra goes undercover to find a much-needed crystal.
McCaffrey, Anne. Lyon's Pride. Fic McC
The children of Damia and Afra Lyon unite their telepathic powers to destroy the Hiver aliens that threaten their peaceful world.
Patterson, James. Maximum Ride Series. Fic Pat
Follows the adventures of Max and the Flock, a band of genetically modified children who can fly.
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment.
School's Out-- Forever.
Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports.
The Final Warning: A Maximum Ride Novel.
Max: A Maximum Ride Novel.
Sagan, Carl. Contact. Fic Sag
Radio telescopes on Earth receive a signal indicating the existence of life 26 light-years away in the vicinity of the star Vega. A brilliant scientist, Eleanor Arroway is instrumental in responding to the message.
Sargent, Pamela. Earthseed. FIC SAR
Before Zoheret and her companions can populate a new planet, they must learn to conquer those same instincts that almost destroyed their ancestors on Earth over one hundred years ago.
Sharmat, Mitchell. A Girl of Many Parts. FIC SHA
Jane, a fifteen-year-old Californian, sends an intergalactic message via computer into outer space. The response to her request is astounding--another Jane!.
Sleator, William. The Boy Who Reversed Himself. FIC SLE
When Laura discovers that the unpopular boy living next door to her has the ability to go into the fourth dimension, she makes the dangerous decision to accompany him on his journeys there.
Sleator, William. Interstellar Pig. FIC SLE
Barney's boring seaside vacation suddenly becomes more interesting when the cottage next door is occupied by three exotic neighbors who are addicted to a game they call "Interstellar Pig."
Also try:
Parasite Pig.
Vande Velde, Vivian. Heir Apparent. Fic Van
While playing a total immersion virtual reality game of kings and intrigue, fourteen-year-old Giannine learns that demonstrators have damaged the equipment to which she is connected, and she must win the game quickly or be damaged herself.
Verne, Jules. From The Earth to the Moon. FIC VER
Impey Barbican, president of the elite Baltimore Gun Club in the years following the Civil War, suggest the members build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon, but things get out of control when an adversary wages against the project, and a volunteer lobbies to make the mission a manned flight.
Verne, Jules. Journey to the Center of the Earth. Fic Ver
Three men dare to adventure into a subterranean world full of danger and beauty where they discover many unusual things on their trip to the Earth's mysterious core.
Vinge, Joan D. Psion. FIC VIN
A sixteen-year-old delinquent who has spent his life lying and stealing becomes involved in a research project which unleashes his extraordinary telepathic powers.
Vonnegut, Kurt. Slaughterhouse-Five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death. Fic Von
A fourth-generation German-American is tortured by his memories of the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1944, which he witnessed while a prisoner of war.
Wells, H. G. In the Days of the Comet. FIC WEL
A comet passes close to Earth, and the globe is wrapped in a green gas. All living things except those in the sea sleep then reawaken. The event becomes known as The Change.
Wells, H. G. The Invisible Man. Fic Wel
A quiet English country village is disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who keeps his face hidden and his back to everyone.
Wells, H. G. The Island of Dr. Moreau. Fic Wel
Dr. Moreau, a scientist, finds an isolated island that gives him the freedom to creat hideous creatures with human intelligence.
Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. Fic Wel
Relates the adventures of a scientist who invents a machine that transports him into the future.
Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds. Fic Wel
An intellectually-superior race from Mars invades the Earth with plans to enslave human beings.
Wilhelm, Kate. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang. FIC WIL
Realizing that the world is facing destruction through pollution, famine, and disease, the Sumner family sets up an experimental institution that uses cloning to insure reproduction of humans and animals.
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Short Stories
Asimov, Isaac. The Best of Isaac Asimov. SC
A collection of science fiction stories chosen by the author including Marooned Off Vesta, Nightfall, and The Last Question.
Asimov, Isaac. The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories. SC ASI
Contains The Prime of Life, Feminine Intuition, Waterclap, That Thou Art Mindful of Him, Stranger in Paradise, The Life and Times of Multivac, The Winnowing, The Bicentennial Man, Marching In, Old-Fashioned, and The Tercentenary Incident.
Bradbury, Ray. The Vintage Bradbury: Ray Bradbury's Own Selection of his Best Stories. SC Bra
A collection of stories by Bradbury, including "The Veldt," "Skeleton," and "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit."
Bradbury, Ray. The Stories of Ray Bradbury. SC BRA
A collection of one hundred Bradbury stories from the past four decades includes the Martian stories, tales of magical nostalgia, celebrated fantasies, and six stories appearing in print for the first time.
Card, Orson Scott. First Meetings in Ender's Universe. SC Car
Collects four novellas, including the original "Ender's Game," that follow the origin and destiny of Ender Wiggin.
Mitchell, Edward Page. The Crystal Man: Landmark Science Fiction. SC MIT
A collection of stories written by Edward Page Mitchell organized by science fiction, unknown-fantasy, supernatural, and future war farce.
2041: Twelve Stories about the Future by Top Science Fiction Writers. SC Two
Twelve fictional stories about school life, fads, inventions, and cultural activities in the future by such authors as Connie Willis, Peg Kerr, and Bruce Coville.
Compiled by Mr. Andrusyk, May, 2003. Updated on February 10, 2010.
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