Science Fiction Suggestions

Y: The Last Man

Vaughn, Brian


.	Science Fiction/Fantasy Novels--Both Classic and Contemporary--Recommended by California School Librarians			At Main Library	At COHS Library
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.	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	Verne, Jules	Trapped aboard a fantastic submarine with the deranged Captain Nemo, a French professor and his companions come face-to-face with exotic ocean creatures and strange, forbidden sights hidden from the world above.	yes	yes
.	Adoration of Jenna Fox, The	Pearson, Mary E.	Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn't remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really hers? Set in a near future America, this novel takes readers on an unforgettable journey through questions of bio-medical ethics and the nature of humanity.
.	Aftermath	Sheffield, Charles	t's 2026, and catastrophe has struck from an unexpected source. The Alpha Centauri supernova has risen like a second sun, rushing Earth toward its last summer. Floods, fires, starvation, and disease paralyze the planet. In a blue aurora flash of gamma rays, all microchips worldwide are destroyed, leaving an already devastated Earth without communications, transportation, weaponry, or medicine. The disaster sets three groups of survivors on separate quests. A militant cult seizes the opportunity to free their leader, known as the Eye of God, from the long-term coma to which a court sentenced her. Three cancer patients also search for a man in judicial sleep: the brilliant scientist--and monstrous criminal--who alone can continue the experimental treatment that keeps them alive. From a far greater distance come the survivors of the first manned Mars expedition, struggling homeward to a world that has changed far beyond their darkest fears. And standing at the crossroads is one man, U.S. President Saul Steinmetz, who faces a crucial decision that will affect the fate of his own people...and the world.	yes	no
.	Among the Hidden series	Haddix, Margaret Peterson	Luke is one of the shadow children, a third child forbidden by the Population Police. He's lived his entire life in hiding, and now, with a new housing development replacing the woods next to his family's farm, he is no longer even allowed to go outside.Then, one day Luke sees a girl's face in the window of a house where he knows two other children already live. Finally, he's met a shadow child like himself. Jen is willing to risk everything to come out of the shadows -- does Luke dare to become involved in her dangerous plan?	yes	yes
.	Andromeda Strain	Crichton, Michael	The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.	yes	yes
.	Andromeda Strain, The	Crichton, Michael	The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, seventeen satellites are sent into the outer fringes of space to "collect organisms and dust for study." One of them falls to earth, landing in a desolate area of Arizona. Twelve miles from the landing site, in the town of Piedmont, a shocking discovery is made: the streets are littered with the dead bodies of the town's inhabitants, as if they dropped dead in their tracks.	yes	yes
.	Angel of Death, The	Ferguson, Alaine	Being a coroner's assistant means that Cameryn has seen more gore than your average seventeen-year-old. But even Cammie is shocked when Kyle O'Neil, the most popular guy in school, discovers the gruesome corpse of their English teacher murdered in his own bed. As Cammie gets involved in the case, she finds herself drawn to Kyle, and considers trusting him with the secret that she can't even tell her father. But when their relationship starts to move toward romance, the struggle to solve the case of her teacher's death intensifies. Will Cameryn be too preoccupied to identify the killer in time	no	no
.	Barrayar	Bujold, Lois McMaster	Cordelia Naismith had married a simple retired soldier. She's now pregnant with their first child & her husband, Aral Vorkosigan, has been appointed to rule Barrayar. An attempt is made to kill him & they don't know who they can trust	no	no
.	Being	Brooks, Kevin	After doctors snake a fiber-optic tube down Robert Smiths throat, what they discover doesn't make medical sense. Armed with a stolen automatic and the videotape of his strange organs, Robert embarks on a violent odyssey to find out exactly who--and what--he is. (YA book)	yes	yes
.	Between Planets	Heinlein, Robert	Don Harvey was attending school on Earth when his parents suddenly and urgently called him home to Mars. He had been skeptical about the talk of interplanetary war breaking out if Mars and Venus followed through on their threats to declare independence from Earth, but he was wrong. War broke out and he was stuck on Venus, with no way of getting home.nbsp;Then there was the ring that an old family friend had given him just before he had left Earth. Shortly afterward the friend had been questioned by Earth's secret police and had died- from "heart failure", they claimed. When Earth troops landed on Venus and started looking for Don and that mysterious ring, he realized that he was trapped in the center of a war between worlds that could change the fate of the Solar System forever	no	no
.	Black Milk	Reed, Robert	An abortive attempt to create a new race of creatures unites the mysterious genetic scientist Dr. Florida with five genetically tailored children in a poignant story that explores the repercussions of humanity's search for perfection	yes	no
.	Blood Music	Bear, Greg	An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world.	yes	no
.	Brave New World	Huxley, Aldous	Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming and media--has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A. F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.	yes
.	Brothers in Arms	Bujold, Lois McMaster	The daring interspace rescue of an entire Cetagandan POW camp by the Dendarii mercenaries made for some deadly enemies. Having finally outrun the infuriated Cetagandans, Admiral Naismith (a.k.a. Lord Miles Vorkosigan) & the Dendarii arrive on Earth for battle shuttle repair & a well-deserved rest	no	no
.	Bug Park	Hogan., Jams P.	When you're a teenager, even a teenager with a rich, indulgent parent, you don't have a lot of power. But when things get very small, the rules change. Physics changes. What everybody knows, ain't so; the weak are mighty, and the powerful can be brought down by those they thought they'd already trodden underfoot. And even those who think they own the world can learn the hard way that innocence is not another word for "stupid". Welcome to Bug Park. (Quick read)	yes	no
.	Cetaganda	Bujold, Lois McMaster	Hugo-award winning adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, in which Miles and Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of the nobility doing their diplomatic duty by good old barrayar, this book finds Miles trying to play detective in a strange, complicated, and deceptively alien culture.	yes	yes
.	Clone	Cowper, Richard		no	no
.	Clones, The	Skurzynski, Gloria	Clones are supposed to be identical...aren't they? Corgan, hero of the Virtual War, has been living a blissful, if placid, life on the Isles of Hiva, his reward for winning the War with Sharla and Brig. But what he doesn't know is that Brig died soon after the War, and yet is not truly gone. Sharla had saved some of Brig's DNA and has created clone-twins with it. Corgan's world is disrupted when Sharla brings one of the clone-twins, Seabrig, to him to raise on the island, while she keeps the other, Brigand, with her in the Domed City.	yes	no


.	Code of the Lifemaker	Hogan, James P.	Thirg, the notorious philosopher, knows there are alien beings on other worlds on the other side of the sky. When aliens do arrive, Thirg's heretical and "dangerous" beliefs are vindicated. But the strange creatures called human plan to exploit his planet's resources. Only one human, Karl Zambendorf, can stop his fellow Terrans from enslaving Thirg's people. Too bad Zambendorf is a con man.	no	no
.	Code Orange	Cooney, Caroline B.	Walking around New York City was what Mitty Blake did best. He loved the city, and even after 9/11, he always felt safe. Mitty was a carefree guy--he didnt worry about terrorists or blackouts or grades or anything, which is why he was late getting started on his Advanced Bio report. Mitty does feel a little pressure to hand something in--if he doesnt, he'll be switched out of Advanced Bio, which would be unfortunate since Olivia's in Advanced Bio. So he considers it good luck when he finds some old medical books in his family's weekend house that focus on something he could write about. But when he discovers an old envelope with two scabs in one of the books, the report is no longer about the grade--its about life and death. His own. (YA book)	yes	yes
.	CSI novels
.	Cyteen	Cherryh, C. J.	C. J. Cherryh won the 1989 Hugo Award for this novel. A geneticist is murdered by an adviser, but the scientist is replicated in the lab, leaving a prodigy who attempts to chart a different fate. The book is intense and complex yet always presented with the flow of true storytelling.	yes	no
.	Darwin's Children	Bear, Greg	Eleven years have passed since SHEVA, an ancient retrovirus, was discovered in human DNAa retrovirus that caused mutations in the human genome and heralded the arrival of a new wave of genetically enhanced humans. Now these changed children have reached adolescence . . . and face a world that is outraged about their very existence. For these special youths, possessed of remarkable, advanced traits that mark a major turning point in human development, are also ticking time bombs harboring hosts of viruses that could exterminate the old human race. Fear and hatred of the virus children have made them a persecuted underclass, quarantined by the government in special schools, targeted by federally sanctioned bounty hunters, and demonized by hysterical segments of the population. But pockets of resistance have sprung up among those opposed to treating the children like dangerous diseasesand who fear the worst if the governments draconian measures are carried to their extreme. (Sequel to Darwin's radio)
.	Darwin's Radio	Bear, Greg	Virus hunter Christopher Dicken is a man on a mission, following a trail of rumors, government cover-ups, and dead bodies around the globe in search of a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women and invariably results in miscarriage. But when Dicken finds what he's looking for, the answer proves to be stranger and far deadlier than he ever could have imagined. Something that has slept in human DNA for millions of years is waking up.
.	Dawn	Butler, Octavia	Lilith lyapo awoke from a centuries-long sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured cancer, increased strength, and were now ready to help Lilith lead her people back to Earth--but for a price.	yes	no
.	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep	Dick, Philip	By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep. . .They even built humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results.	yes	no
.	Door into Ocean, A	Slonczewski, Joan	A Door into Ocean is the novel upon which the author's reputation as an important SF writer principally rests. A ground-breaking work both of feminist SF and of world-building hard SF, it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon in the far future who are pacifists, highly advanced in biological sciences, and who reproduce by parthenogenesis--there are no males--and tells of the conflicts that erupt when a neighboring civilization decides to develop their ocean world, and send in an army.	no	no
.	Double Helix	Werlin, Nancy	Eli has lucked into a job at Wyatt Transgenics, offered to him by Dr. Wyatt, the famed scientist. The salary is substantial, the work is interesting, and Dr. Wyatt seems to be paying special attention to Eli. It's almost too good to be true. Eli's father is vehemently against his taking the job, but won't explain why. Eli knows that there's some connection between Dr. Wyatt and his parents--something too painful for his father to discuss. Something to do with his mother, who is now debilitated by Huntington's disease. As he continues to work at the lab, and to spend time with Dr. Wyatt, he begins to uncover some disconcerting truths about himself--about his very makeup. (YA book)	yes	no
.	Double Identity	Haddix, Margaret Peterson	As Bethany approaches her thirteenth birthday, her parents act more oddly than usual. Her mother cries constantly, and her father barely lets Bethany out of his sight. Then one morning he hustles the entire family into the car, drives across several state lines -- and leaves Bethany with an aunt she never knew existed. Bethany has no idea what's going on. She's worried her mom and dad are running from some kind of trouble, but she can't find out because they won't tell her where they are going. Bethany's only clue is a few words she overheard her father tell her aunt: "She doesn't know anything about Elizabeth." But Aunt Myrlie won't tell Bethany who Elizabeth is, and she won't explain why people in her small town react to Bethany as if they've seen a ghost. (YA book)	yes	yes
.	Dr. Franklin's Island	Halam, Ann	Semi, Miranda, and Arnie are part of a group of 50 British Young Conservationists on their way to a wildlife conservation station deep in the rain forests of Ecuador. After a terrifying mid-air disaster and subsequent crash, these three are the sole survivors, stranded together on a deserted tropical island. Or so they think. Semi, Miranda, and Arnie stumble into the hands of Dr. Franklin, a mad scientist who's been waiting for them, eager to use them as specimens for his experiments in genetic engineering. (YA book)	yes	yes
.	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Stevenson, Robert Louis	Good and evil, right and wrong. Both are seen through the eyes of John Utterson, a lawyer and friend of the scientist Dr. Jekyll. After hearing the alarming account of the horrendous trampling of a small girl by a violent man named Mr. Hyde, who also holds a connection to the lawyer's dear friend, Uttersons curiosity gets the better of him and he begins to investigate. As he probes further into the events and the hidden life of Mr. Hyde, Utterson slowly uncovers a terrifying and ghastly story.	yes	yes
.	Dragonflight	McCaffery, Anne	On the beautiful planet Pern, colonized for centuries, Land Holders and Craftsmen have traditionally tithed food and supplies to the dragonweyrs to which they are bound. In times past, the mighty telepathic dragons and their riders were the only protection from the dreaded, life-threatening Thread. But it has been over 400 years since the last Threadfall, and some people have come to doubt that the menace will every strike again. But F'lar, rider of Pern's greatest bronze dragon, has no such illusions.	yes	yes
.	Dragonquest	McCaffery, Anne	Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more and their magnificent flying dragons swirled and swooped, belching flames that destroyed the shimmering strands before they reach the ground. But F'lar knew he had to find a better way to protect his beloved Pern, and he had to find it before the rebellious Oldtimers could breed anymore dissent... before his brother F'nor would be foolhardy enough to launch another suicide mission... and before those dratted fire-lizards could stir up any more trouble		yes
.	Dune	Herbert, Frank	Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Maud'dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family-and would bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. Frank Herbert's death in 1986 was a tragic loss, yet the astounding legacy of his visionary fiction will live forever.	yes	yes
.	Duplicate, The	Sleator, William	When David finds a mysterious machine that can copy living things, he thinks his problems are over. The possibilities are endless--and then they turn terrifying as his duplicate desires to see the real David dead.	yes	yes
.	Dykstra's War	Kooistra, Jeffrey D.	Humanity had thought itself alone in the Cosmos. By the end of the 21st century, it had filled the Solar System and begun warring with itself. But then the aliens came -- swift, silent, and deadly, possessing enigmatic weapons and faster-than-light technology.At 126 years of age, James Christian Dykstra had thought he'd done enough. As Einstein had been to the 20th century, he had been to the 21st. Nearly all advanced technology depended upon the foundation of his physics. But the aliens had brought something new, and nobody understood it.	no	no
.	Ear, The Eye, The Arm, The	Farmer, Nancy	An ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Zimbabwe, 2194. When the three children of the wealthy and powerful General Matsika steal out of the house on a forbidden adventure and promptly disappear, their parents call in the best detectives in Africa: the Ear, the Eye and the Arm.	yes	yes
.	Earth	Brin, David	a carefully-reasoned, scientifically faithful tale of the fate of our world. "One hell of a novel . . . has what sci-fi readers want these days; intelligence, action, and an epic scale".--Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.	yes	no


.	Earthseed	Sargent, Pamela	Zoheret and her companions prepare to populate a new planet.	no	no
.	Ender's Game	Card, Orson Scott	Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin thinks he is playing computer-simulated war games at the Battle School; in fact, he is engaged in something far more desperate. Ender is the result of decades of genetic experimentation, Earth's attempt to make the military genius that the planet needs in its all-out war with an alien enemy.	yes	yes
.	Ender's Shadow	Card, Orson Scott	Life on the streets is tough. But if Bean has learned anything, it' s how to survive. Not with his fists. Bean is way too small to fight. But with his brain. Like his colleague and rival Ender Wiggin, Bean has been chosen to enroll in Battle School. And like Ender, Bean will be called upon to perform an extraordinary service for humanity.	yes	yes
.	Eon	Bear, Greg	The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer-long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth's orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid's surface...and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad. For the Stone was from space--but perhaps not "our "space; it came from the future--but perhaps not "our" future; and within the hollowed asteroid was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization.	yes	no
.	Eva	Dickinson, Peter	Thirteen-year-old Eva wakes up in the hospital unable to remember anything since the picnic on the beach. Her mother leans over the bed and begins to explain. A traffic accident, a long coma . . . But there is something, Eva senses, that shes not being told. There is a price she must pay to be alive at all. What have they done, with their amazing medical techniques, to save her?	yes	yes
.	Fantastic Voyage	Asimov, Issac	Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed.	yes	yes
.	Feed	Anderson, M. T.	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. (YA book)	yes	yes
.	Flowers for Algernon	Keyes, Daniel	classic story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse. In poignant diary entries, Charlie tells how a brain operation increases his IQ and changes his life. As the experimental procedure takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment seems to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance--until Algernon begins his sudden, unexpected deterioration. Will the same happen to Charlie?	yes	yes
.	Forty Thousand in Gehenna	Cherryh, C. J.		yes	no
.	Frankenstein	Shelley, Mary	(Read in senior classes.)	yes	yes
.	Gadget, The	Zindel, Paul	Arriving at Los Alamos in 1945 to meet his physicist father at the Army's remote, top-secret base in New Mexico, 13-year-old Stephen Orr discovers the Allies are developing a secret weapon called "The Gadget"--a devastating device that will end all wars.	yes	yes
.	Gaia's Toys	Ore, Rebecca	It's 20 minutes into the future--a place where gene restructuring is the norm, where if you don't have a job, you become a welfare drone, where children go hungry in the streets, but the wealthy save endangered species in eco-bubbles. And where a group of eco-terrorists will band together to stop the government from robbing Americans of their last scrap of freedom.	yes	no
.	Girl Who Owned a City, The	Nelson, O. T.	A killing virus has swept the earth, sparing only children through the age of twelve. There is chaos everywhere, even in formely prosperous mid-America. Gangs and fierce armies of children begin to form almost immediately. It would be the same for the children on Grand Avenue but for Lisa, a ten-year-old girl who becomes their leader.	no	no
.	Golden Compass, The	Pullman, Phillip	Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors.	yes	yes
.	Grass	Tepper, Sherri S.	On the planet Grass, the human inhabitants seem immune to a deadly plague.	yes	no
.	Green Glass Sea, The	Klages, Ellen	Ellen Klages's award-winning debut. It is 1943, and eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is en route to New Mexico, to live with her mathematician father. Soon she arrives at a town that, officially, doesn't exist. It is called Los Alamos, and it is abuzz with activity, as scientists and mathematicians from all over America and Europe work on the biggest secret of all--the gadget. None of them--not J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project; not the mathematicians and scientists; and least of all, Dewey--know how much the gadget is about to change their lives.	yes	yes
.	Hiero's Journey	Lanier, Strerling	Per Hiero Desteen was a priest, a telepath -- and a highly trained killer. Together with his great riding moose and the young bear who was his friend, he was on an extraordinary mission. For this was five thousand years after the holocaust known as The Death. Now the evil Brotherhood of the Unclean was waging all-out war against the few remnants of normal humanity, determined to wipe out all traces of its emerging civilization. Hiero's task was to bring back a lost secret of the ancients that might save the humans. But his path lay through the very heart of the territory ruled by the Unclean and their hordes of mutated, intelligent, savage beast followers. And the Unclean were waiting for him	yes	no
.	House of the Scorpion	Farmer, Nancy	In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patron, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States. (YA book)	yes	yes
.	I Robot	Asimov, Issac	In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete. Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world--all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asmiov's trademark.	yes	yes
.	Island of Dr. Moreau	Wells, H. G.	This haunting classic by Wells--a dark fable about the characteristics of beasts blurring as the animals turn into men--serves as a compelling reminder of the horrors that reckless experiments with nature can produce.	yes	yes


.	Jurassic Park	Crichton, Michael	An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon-to-be opened as a theme park. Until something goes wrong...and science proves a dangerous toy.	yes	yes
.	Kiln People	Brin, David	In a perilous future, disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every citizen's legal and illicit whim. Life as a 24-hour "ditto" is cheap, as Albert Morris knows. A brash investigator with a knack for trouble, he's sent plenty of clay duplicates into deadly peril, then "inloaded" memories from copies that were shot, crushed, drowned . . . all part of a day's work. But when Morris tackles a ring of crooks making bootleg copies of a famous actress, he trips into a secret so explosive it incites open warfare on the streets of Dittotown.	yes	no
.	Last Book in the Universe, The	Philbrick, Rodman	After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future. (Quick read)	yes	yes
.	Life as We Knew It	Pfeffer, Susan	Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions. (YA book)	yes	yes
.	Lost World, The	Crichton, Michael	It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived.	yes	yes
.	Make Room! Make Room!	Harison, Harry	The world is crowded. Far too crowded. Its starving billions live on lentils, soya beans, and -if they're lucky-the odd starving rat. In a New York City groaning under the burden of 35 million inhabitants, detective Andy Rusch is engaged in a desperate and lonely hunt for a killer everyone has forgotten. For even in a world such as this, a policeman can find himself utterly alone.	no	no
.	Maximum Ride--Angel Experiment series	Patterson, James	After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose. (YA books)
.	Med Ship	Leinster, Murray	Med ship man -- Plague on Kryder II -- Mutant weapon -- Ribbon in the sky -- Tallien three -- Quarantine world -- Grandfather's war -- Pariah planet.	yes	no
.	Memory	Bujold, Lois McMaster	Miles is recovering from his first death when he finds himself summoned home to face the Barrayaran security chief, Simon Illyan. But Miles's worst nightmares about Illyan are nothing compared to Illyans nightmares.	yes	no
.	Mind Games	Grunwell, Jeanne Marie	An inventive story about ESP, friendship, sisterhood, and the ties that bind. Told by the characters themselves, Mind Games and reveals how each student tries to prove that ESP exists and what he or she discovers along the way. Funny and engaging, the individual voices are right on target, revealing the complex relationships and characters of the members of the Mad Science Club. Here they grapple with life, death, love, and the lotteryall before they reach the eighth grade	no	no
.	Mirabile	Kaga, Janet		no	no
.	More Than Human	Sturgeon, Theodore	There's Lone, who can make a man blow his own brains out just by looking at him. There's Janie, who moves things without touching them, and the unique power of the teleporting twins. There's Baby, who invented an antigravity engine while still in the cradle, and Gerry, who has everything it takes to run the world -- except for a conscience. Separately, they are talented freaks. Together they compose a single organism that may represent the next step in evolution. As the protagonist of More Than Human struggle to find out whether they are meant to help humanity or destroy it, Theodore Sturgeon explores the questions of power and morality, individuality and belonging.	no	no
.	Never Let Me Go	Ishiguro, Kazuo	Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but its only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.	yes	yes
.	Octavian Nothing series	Anderson, M. T.	Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War. (YA books)	yes	yes
.	Peace War, The	Vinge, Vernor	The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, the Authority becomes virtually omnipotent. But they've never caught Paul Hoehler, the maverick who invented the technology, and who has been working quietly for decades to develop a way to defeat the Authority. With the help of an underground network of determined, independent scientists and a teenager who may be the apprentice genius he's needed for so long, he will shake the world,	no	no
.	Phoenix Rising	Hesse, Karen	Thirteen-year-old Nyle learns about relationships and death when fifteen-year-old Ezra, who was exposed to radiation leaked from a nearby nuclear plant, comes to stay at her grandmother's Vermont farmhouse. (Quick read)	yes	no
.	Plague Tales, The	Benson, Ann	It is history's most feared disease.It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead.Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium--the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague. In the year 1348, a disgraced Spanish physician crosses a landscape of horrors to Avignon, France.There, he will be sent on an impossible mission to England, to save the royal family from the Black Death.... Nearly seven hundred years later, a woman scientist digs up a clod of earth in London.In a world where medicine is tightly controlled, she will unearth a terror lying dormant for centuries.	no	no
.	Point Blank	Horowitz, Anthony	"An Alex Rider adventure"Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps. (YA books)	yes	yes
.	Pox Party, The	Anderson, M. T.	Young Octavian is being raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers -- but it is only after he opens a forbidden door that he learns the hideous nature of their experiments, and his own chilling role in them. Set in Revolutionary Boston, M. T. Anderson's mesmerizing novel takes place at a time when Patriots battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim.	yes	yes
.	Prey	Crichton, Michael	In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles-micro-robots-has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour.Every attempt to destroy it has failed.And we are the prey.	yes	yes


.	Rainbow's End	Vinge, Vernor		yes	no
.	Red Planet	Heinlein, Robert	Jim Marlowe's Martian pet, Willis, seems like nothing more than an adorable ball of fur with an uncanny ability to imitate the human voice. But Jim's devotion to the little creature will soon lead Jim and his pal Frank into a death-defying trek across Mars. Their journey of wonders, including an encounter with the mysterious ancients of Mars, ends when they are plunged into the midst of a dangerous rebellion.	yes	no
.	Running Out of Time	Haddix, Margaret Peterson	When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1995 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children. (YA book)	yes	yes
.	Shards of Honor	Bujold, Lois McMaster	Commander Cordelia Naismith of Beta Colony & Captain Aral Vorkosigan of Barrayar suddenly find themselves at war with each other, abandoned by their respective forces on an uncharted planet & dependent on each other for their very survival. Trapped in an endless war without victory or glory & only one thing worth fighting for..."Shards of Honor	no	no
.	Space Cadet	Heinlein, Robert	This is the seminal novel of a young man's education as a member of an elite, paternalistic non-military organization of leaders dedicated to preserving human civilization, the Solar Patrol. Only the best and brightest--the strongest and the most courageous--ever manage to become Space Cadets, at the Space Academy. They are in training to be come part of the elite guard of the solar system, accepting missions others fear, taking risks no others dare, and upholding the peace of the solar system for the benefit of all. But before Matt Dodson can earn his rightful place in the ranks, his mettle is to be tested in the most severe and extraordinary ways--ways that change him forever, from the midwestern American boy into a man of the Solar Patrol.	yes	yes
.	Star Split	Lasky, Kathryn	In the year 3038, 13-year-old Darci Murlowe is like everyone she knows--a Genhant, or Genetically Enhanced Human, implanted with a 48th chromosome. But Darci is fascinated by the "Originals", people whose ancestors couldn't afford extra genetic material, and she wonders if her chosen DNA has compromised her ability to determine her own future.		no
.	Sunrise Alley	Asaro, Catherine	The shipwrecked stranger washed up on the beach near Samantha's home turns out to be a half-human experiment by the notorious criminal Charon, a practitioner of illegal robotics with evil plans for his creations.	no	no
.	Temperence Brennen books	Reichs, Kathy		no	no
.	Terminal	Cook, Robin	Brain cancer patients are miraculously "cured"-when the rising cost of research sparks a medical conspiracy that lowers the price on human life.	yes	yes
.	Title	Author	Description
.	Turnabout	Haddix, Margaret Peterson	In the year 2000 Melly and Anny Beth had reached the peak of old age and were ready to die. But when offered the chance to be young again by participating in a top-secret experiment called Project Turnabout, they agreed. Miraculously, the experiment worked -- Melly and Anny Beth were actually growing younger every year. But when they learned that the final treatment would be deadly, they ran for their lives. Now it is 2085. Melly and Anny Beth are teenagers. They have no idea what will happen when they hit age zero, but they do know they will soon be too young to take care of themselves. They need to find someone to help them before time runs out, once and for all....	yes	yes
.	Twilight of Briareus	Cowper, Richard		no	no
.	Uglies, Pretties, Specials, Extras	Westerfield, Scott	Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.	yes	yes
.	Unwind	Shusterman, Neal	Conner's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth, as part of his family's strict religion. Brought together by chance, and kept together by desperation, these three unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance. If they can survive until their eighteenth birthday, they can't be harmed--but when every piece of them, from their hands to their hearts, is wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away.	yes	yes
.	Uplift Saga (Sundiver, Startide Rising, etc.)	Brin, David
.	Violet Eyes	Luiken, Nicole	Angel Eastland knows she's different. It's not just her violet eyes that set her apart. She's smarter than her classmates and more athletically gifted. Her only real competition is Michael Vallant, who also has violet eyes -- eyes that tell her they're connected, in a way she can't figure out. Michael understands Angel. He knows her dreams, her nightmares, and her most secret fears. Together they begin to realize that nothing around them is what it seems. Someone is watching them, night and day. They have just one desperate chance to escape, one chance to find their true destiny, but their enemies are powerful -- and will do anything to stop them.
.	Virtual War	Skurzynski, Gloria	Imagine a life of virtual reality -- a childhood contained in a controlled environment, with no human contact or experiences outside of the world of computer-generated images.Corgan has been genetically engineered by the Federation for quick reflexes, high intelligence, and physical superiority. Everything Corgan is, everything he has ever seen or done, was to prepare him for one moment: a bloodless, computer-controlled virtual war.When Corgan meets his two fellow warriors, he begins to question the Federation. Now Corgan must decide where his loyalties lie, what he's willing to fight for, and exactly what he wants in return.	yes	no
.	Von Neumann's War	Ringo John and Travis Taylor	Seemingly overnight the once "red" planet is turning to gray. Something is happening, something unnatural. A team of rocket scientists figure out a way to send a probe to Mars to determine how and why it is changing. However, when the probe is destroyed well short of the formerly red planet, it's apparent that Mars is being used as a staging ground. The only viable target for that staging ground is Earth.	yes	no
.	Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang	Wilhelm, Kate	The story of an isolated post-holocaust community of clones who are determined to preserve civilization, Where Late the Sweet Bids Sang" is widely regarded as Wilhelm's finest work.	no	no
.	White Dragon, The	McCaffery, Anne	Pure white and incredibly agile, Ruth was a dragon of many talents, though almost everyone on Pern thought he was a runt that would never amount to anything. But Jaxom knew better, knew he could teach his dragon to fly and to destroy the deadly silver Threads that fell from the sky. Disobeying all rules, Jaxom and Ruth trained in secret. Their illicit flights seemed but a minor disobedience - until they found themselves in the path of danger and in a position to prevent the biggest disaster of all.	yes	no