Science+Fiction

Science fiction lets us dream of new worlds to explore, advanced technology, unknown species, fantastic cities to live in, and more. //Ship Breaker // Everyone in Nailer's impoverished coastal town is looking for a Lucky Strike--an escape hatch from a lifetime of hard labor and uncertainty. So when Nailer discovers a beached clipper ship, he's ecstatic. Scavenged for parts, it'll make him the richest person in town. But only if he kills the ship's one surviving passenger.
 * by Paolo Bacigalupi **

//The Hunger Games // In a post-apocalyptic future, North America has become Panem--a collection of twelve districts surrounding a prosperous Capitol City. Each year, as punishment for a long-ago rebellion, the Capitol selects one boy and one girl from each district to compete in the Hunger Games, a televised fight to the death. When Primrose, Katniss's younger sister, is among the two names called from District 12, Katniss volunteers to take her sister's place. After all, it's her skill with a bow and arrow that has put food on the family table since their father's death. But can Katniss, who is willing to risk her life to save her sister's, learn to kill humans the same way she hunts--without mercy?
 * by Suzanne Collins **

//**Incarceron **// Incarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber -- chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison -- a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, and an imminent marriage she dreads.
 * by Catherine Fisher **

//The Knife of Never Letting Go // In a town of men, Todd Hewitt is the only boy. Everyone is waiting for him to turn thirteen; he knows because, like everyone else in Prentisstown, Todd hears Noise--the ubiquitous, audible thoughts of men and animals. Supposedly silence hasn't existed since the alien attack that killed all women and infected all men with the Noise germ. But when Todd and his dog, Manchee, discover a patch of silence in the swamp outside town, all that Todd knows about his world suddenly seems false. Confronted with the townsmen's malicious plans for his future, Todd flees through the swamp, where he finds something else that shouldn't exist: a girl.
 * by Patrick Ness **

//Birthmarked // In the future, in a world baked dry by the harsh sun, there are those who live inside the walled Enclave and those, like sixteen-year-old Gaia Stone, who live outside. Following in her mother’s footsteps Gaia has become a midwife, delivering babies in the world outside the wall and handing a quota over to be "advanced" into the privileged society of the Enclave. Gaia has always believed this is her duty, until the night her mother and father are arrested by the very people they so loyally serve. Now Gaia is forced to question everything she has been taught, but her choice is simple: enter the world of the Enclave to rescue her parents, or die trying.
 * by Caragh M. O'Brien **

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Across the Universe //**
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Beth Revis **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Roth's edgy YA debut is set in a dystopian Chicago comprising five factions: Amity (where the peaceful folks live), Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent). Enter 16-year-old Beatrice Tris Prior, who's about to participate in the city's annual Choosing ceremony to learn her faction. But the process, never simple, turns downright dangerous after her aptitude test comes back with odd results.
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Divergent //**
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Veronica Roth **

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">Fast-forward to 2083. Chocolate and coffee are contraband, paper and water are scarce, and New York is crawling with crime and poverty. But this is normal for sixteen-year-old Anya Balachine, daughter of the city's late crime boss. Until, that is, the chocolate her family manufactures accidentally poisons her ex and all fingers are pointed at her.
 * //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">All These Things I've Done //**
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13px;">by Gabrielle Zevin **