Summary: Do you envision celestial cities in distant, fantastic worlds? Do you dream of mythical beasts and gallant quests in exotic kingdoms? If you have ever wanted to write the next great fantasy or science fiction story, this all-in-one comprehensive book will show you how. Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction is full of advice from master authors offering definitive instructions on world building,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word CardRiddle, A. G.
Summary: A new ice age on Earth. A mysterious object in space. And a desperate mission to save humanity from extinction. Each month, Earth grows colder. Snow falls in summer. Glaciers trample cities across North America, Europe, and Asia. Chaos erupts. Around the world, people abandon their homes, fleeing the cold, flocking to regions where they can survive the new ice age. Nations prepare to go to war...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIDWolfe, Gary K.
Summary: "Robots, spaceships, futuristic megacities, planets orbiting distant stars. These icons of science fiction are now in our daily news. Science fiction, once maligned as mere pulp, has motivated cutting-edge scientific research, inspired new technologies, and changed how we view everyday life -- and its themes and questions permeate popular culture. Take an unparalleled look at the influence,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809.3 HOWLubar, David
Summary: When seventh grader Nicholas V. Landrew, his beloved pet gerbil Henrietta, and a package of ground beef are beamed aboard an alien space ship, they soon find themselves on the run in a madcap chase across the universe. Now all Nicholas wants to do is get back home before his parents find out and ground him forever, but with the Universal Police hot on his trail, that won't be easy. Before it's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD LUBAki
Summary: Follow a group of girl scientists in this rhyming story as they explore the world around them through science.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books
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Summary: Arriving home on Christmas Eve, Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing, and his best friend's wife, Kat, unconscious on the kitchen floor. With no shred of evidence to follow, his one hope to find the woman he loves and his unborn child is Kat, the only witness to what happened. But the injured woman is in a semi-comatose state and cannot speak'until a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROLCody, Matthew
Summary: "For the Bright family, rocket science is no big deal, but learning how to be a family is a real challenge! When a dimensional portal sends Mom and Dad who-knows-where, it's up to Nia and Jayden (and their robot nanny, Dusty) to bring their parents home. The question is, where in the multiverse could they possibly be?"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2021
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC COD (graphic novel)Hewitt, Deborah
Summary: "Alice Wyndham has been plagued by visions of birds her whole life...until the mysterious Crowley reveals that Alice is an 'aviarist': capable of seeing nightjars, magical birds that guard human souls. When her best friend is hit by a car, only Alice can find and save her nightjar. With Crowley's help, Alice travels to the Rookery, a hidden, magical alternate London to hone her newfound...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEWSummary: Award-winning writer, director, and producer James Cameron explores science fiction's roots and futuristic vision through interviews with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, among many others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY E-TV JAMYolen, Jane.
Summary: When Commander Salamander and his band of pirates capture the "Star Warts" spaceship, Commander Toad is forced to hop the plank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam & Grosset 1997
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Summary: A series of essays explores essential truths about the modern world and the author's personal relationship with the science fiction genre, in a volume complemented by key reviews and her three unpublished Ellmann Lectures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 ATWMaihack, Mike
Summary: Mysteriously zapped thousands of years into the future, a teenaged Cleopatra discovers that she is destined to save the galaxy, a prophecy that compels her to enroll in a high-tech school where she can learn modern subjects, alien languages, and combat fighting.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2014
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAIFriedman, Michael Jan.
Summary: While Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his senior staff accompany Chief Engineer Simenon to his homeworld of Gnala to undergo a ritual, his second officer, Victoria Wu, is left in command of the Stargazer. Responding to a distress call from a nearby star system, Wu finds herself in the middle of a mystery involving a damaged ship and a peculiar interstellar phenomenon--one that threatens to destroy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRISmith, Alexander Gordon
Summary: When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the night sometimes return weirdly altered, and escape might just be possible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMIMaberry, Jonathan.
Summary: The truth is still out there!FBI special agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder go hunting in the shadows for dangerous truths in this new collection of original, never-before-published tales of the X-Files.Edited by New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, Secret Agendas features heart-stopping stories by some of today's hottest writers of mystery, thrillers, science fiction, and horror.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MABWindham, Ryder.
Summary: After leaving Chiss space, Jedi Nuru Kungurama and the clone troopers of Breakout Squad receive orders from Chancellor Palpatine to escort the representatives of new Republic allies to Coruscant. But the mission turns deadly with the arrival of an armored warrior with ties to the Separatist Alliance. Will Nuru and Breakout Squad defeat this villainous foe, or will they meet their ends at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J SWCWSM 3Walz, Jason
Summary: In a world where aliens have taken over Earth, abducted every human they deemed useful, and abandoned the rest, twins Sam and Wyatt struggle to start a revolution of the unwanteds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LASWindham, Ryder.
Summary: Based on all six of the Star Wars movies, tells the story of Anakin Skywalker from his birth in slavery to his death as the powerful Darth Vader.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STAKagawa, Julie.
Summary: When forced to choose between safety with the dragon organization Talon and being hunted forever as an outcast, Ember Hill chose to stand with Riley and his band of rogue dragons rather than become an assassin for Talon. She's lost any contact with her twin brother, Dante, a Talon devotee, as well as Garret, the former-enemy soldier who challenged her beliefs about her human side. As Ember and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC KAGFentiman, David
Summary: "Meet the brave heroes who will try to defend the galaxy. Read about the villains who want to rule it. Learn about the amazing starships, and find out about an epic battle between good and evil"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2015
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Summary: When Fangbone's barbarian world sends him the egg of a razor dragon, Fangbone and his friends must protect the egg from the evil Vemonous Drool as well as hatch the egg for their science pageant.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 REXLore, Pittacus
Summary: A collection of three thrilling stories by Pittacus Lore. Originally published as the e-novellas The Fugitive, The Navigator, and The Guard, now, for the first time ever, they are together in one volume. The Fugitive follows Mark James as he tries to track down Sarah Hart, evade the Mogadorians and the FBI, and discover the identity of the mysterious blogger he knows only as Guard. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LORZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022