Just before the Earth is demolished, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect.
Feed
by Anderson, M.T.
F And
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who wants to control herself.
Killobyte
by Piers Anthony
F Ant
In the virtual-reality computer game Killobyte, wheelchair-bound ex-cop Walter Tobin is a hero--and he can have the use of his legs restored.
Foundation’s Edge
by Isaac Asimov
Pb Asi
The First and Second Foundations have been cleared to pursue their intended goals, but there still seems to be interference, the Trevize is convinced it is connected to man's point of origin of Earth.
Robots and Empire
by Isaac Asimov
Pb Asi
Two hundred years after his defeat at the hands of the Earthman Elijah Baley, the sinister, intelligent robot Kelden Amadiro still dreams of revenge.
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
F Bra & Pb Bra
Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the Red Planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires.
R is For Rocket
by Ray Bradbury
Pb Bra
Seventeen breathtaking stories - including the space-age classic, "Frost and Fire".
Farenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
F Bra & Pb Bra
Enter a world where books are for burning along with the houses in which they are hidden.
Speaker For the Dead
by Orson Scott Card
F Car
A sequel to Ender's Game, this is a tale of guilt and tragedy driven by fear of the alien and lack of empathy.
Xenocide
by Orson Scott Card
F Car
Ender struggles to save Lusitania.
Things Not Seen
by Andrew Clements
Pb Cle
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend, Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.
Timeline
by Michael Crichton
F Cri
A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present. His colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War.
Prey
by Michael Crichton
F Cri
Deep in the Nevada desert, an experiment goes horribly wrong as a cloud of self-sustaining nanoparticles escapes from the laboratory. It has been programmed as a predator--and mankind has become the prey.
City of Ember
by Jean DuPrau
F Dup
In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a messenger, to run to new places in her beloved but decaying city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
by Nancy Farmer
F Far & Pb Far
In 2194 in Zimbabwe, General Matsika's three children are kidnapped and put to work in a plastic mine while three mutant detectives use their special powers to search for them.
The House of the Scorpion
by Nancy Farmer
F Far
In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrâon, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.
Among the Hidden
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Pb Had
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Among the Imposters
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
F Had
In a future where the law limits a family to only two children, third-born Luke has been in hiding for the entire twelve years of his life, until he enters boarding school under an assumed name and is forced to face his fears.
Among the Betrayed
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
F Had
Sequel to: Among the Imposters. Thirteen-year-old Nina is imprisoned by the Population Police, who give her the option of helping them identify illegal "third-born" children or facing death
Among the Barrons
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
F Had
In a future world of false identities, government lies and death threats, Luke feels drawn to the younger brother of the boy whose name Luke has taken.
Among the Brave
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
F Had
In a society that allows families only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.
Turnabout
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
F Had
After secretly receiving injections at the age of 100 that are meant to reverse the aging process, Melly and Anny Beth grow younger until, as teenagers, they try to find a guardian to take care of them as they return to infancy
Dune
by Frank Herbert
Pb Her
A science fiction classic that sets the young Prince-in-exile, Paul Atreides, against sinister rival houses for control of the desert planet Dune and its highly addictive and profitable drug, spice.
Dune Messiah
by Frank Herbert
Pb Her
Paul Atreides, genetically bred and trained to become the leader of his planet, is still subject to human frailties. The second book of the series.
Born Into Light
by Paul Samuel Jacobs
F Jac
When a number of "feral children" are found in a New England town during the Depression, only young Roger Westwood suspects they are not earthly creatures, though even he cannot guess their true nature or their mission on this planet.
Children of the Dust
by Louise Lawrence
F Law
After a nuclear war devastates the earth, a small band of people struggles for survival in a new world where children are born with strange mutations.
Dream-Weaver
by Louise Lawrence
F Law
Using her psychic talents, an apprentice dream-weaver learns that human colonists aboard a spaceship plan to settle on her peaceful planet.
A Crack in the Line
by Michael Lawrence
F Law
Sixteen year old Alaric discovers how to travel to an alternate reality, where his mother is alive and his place in the family is held by a girl named Naia.
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L’Engle
F Len
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet
by Madeleine L’Engle
F Len
The youngest of the Murry children must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe.
A gift of Mirrorvax
by Malcolm MacCloud
F Mac
Owned by the planet Vax's largest corporation, Michael is sent on a secret mission to a shadow world, where he is totally unprepared for the adventures awaiting him. Science fiction.
I feel like the morning star
by Gregory Maguire
F Mag
Three teenagers in a post-holocaust survival colony find that their shelter has become a prison and decide to break out.
Pegasus in flight
by Ann McCaffrey
F McC
In subterranean warrens, the poor eke out precarious lives where jobs are scarce and children are sold for labor -- while on the surface, a privileged few enjoy lives of luxury. As the population surges and unrest spreads, a disaster of epic proportions seems inescapable.
Children of time
by Deborah Moulton
F Mou
David reluctantly obeys the laws of the computer-controlled government of the future which demands that every child spend every other month with a foster parent until he is imprisoned by a mad woman in a castle with hundreds of other children.
Shade’s children
by Garth Nix
F Nix
In a savage post nuclear world, four young fugitives attempt to overthrow the blood-thirsty rule of the Overlords with the help of Shade, their mysterious mentor.
The Transall Saga
by Gary Paulsen
F Pau
While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.
Mortal Engines
by Philip Reeve
F Ree
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another.
Earthseed
by Pamela Sargent
F 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.
Trap for Perseus
by Ludek Peesek
F Pee
When an investigative space mission discovers the spaceship Argo, missing for 200 years, the crew is trapped aboard the totalitarian microcosm of Argo and the commander is selected for indoctrination into Argo thought and behavior.
The bromeliad trilogy
by Terry Pratchett
F Pra
After generations of existing in the human-sized world, a group of four-inch-high nomes discover their true nature and origin, with the help of a black square called the Thing.
Starfire
by Paul Preuss
F Pre
A former astronaut, cashiered from NASA as the result of his reckless heroics in space, wrangles a slot on the experimental space vehicle Starfire and hurtles towards a near-rendezvous with death.
The virtual war
by Gloria Shurzynski
F Shu
In a future world where global contamination has necessitated limited human contact, three young people with unique genetically engineered abilities are teamed up to wage a war in virtual reality.
Interstellar pig
By William Sleator
F Sle & PB 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."
Marco’s millions
By William Sleator
F Sle
Twelve-year-old Marco's love for travel and for his younger sister Lilly, who has psychic powers, leads him to journey to other universes, gaining the ability to go wherever he wishes without growing old.
Parasite pig
by William Sleator
F Sle
Sequel to Interstellar pig, sixteen-year-old Barney, infected by an alien parasite, and his friend Katie are taken to the planet J'koot by extraterrestrials intent on playing the dangerous game known as Interstellar Pig.
Truesight
by David Stahler, Jr.
F Sta
In a distant frontier world, thirteen-year-old Jacob is uncertain of his future in a community that considers blindness a virtue and 'seers" as aberrations.
Green is for Galanx
by Josephine Rector Stone
F Sto
A young girl in charge of children thought to have extrasensory perception becomes convinced that the rulers of the artificial satellite on which they live have sinister plans for her charges and escapes with them to another planet where they are faced by yet another danger.
The mudhead
By Josephine Rector Stone
F Sto
Young Korby finds life with his family on a routine star fleet mission to a distant primitive world quite boring until he leaves the protected area and encounters the local people.
Jump Man: Rule #1: Don’t Touch Anything
by James Valentine
F Val & Pb Val
In the year fifteen billion and seventy-three, when time travel is routine using the TimeMaster JumpMan, Theo jumps to the early twenty-first century and discovers that the JumpMan won't send him back to his own time.
Journey to the center of the earth
by Jules Verne
F Ver & PB Ver
A group of ambitious scientists create a craft to journey to the center of the earth.
War of the worlds
by H. G. Wells
PB Wel
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.
Double helix
by Nancy Werlin
F Wer
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his family while working for a Nobel prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
Futuretrack 5
by Robert Westall
F Wes
In the highly organized society of twenty-first-century Britain the system is not to be questioned, but Kitson, a young computer wizard, and his partner Keri are determined to find answers to some important questions.
The nearest fire
by Cherry Wilder
F Wil
With the help of two refugees from a penal colony, three earthmen, separated from a fourth on the planet Torin, elude capture by the Great Elder and gain cooperation for their mission.
The Antrian messenger
by G. Clifton Wisler
F Wis
A high school freshman knows that he is different, from his strange dreams, his precognition, his scientific understandings; yet in the space of a week his once ordinary life changes when the truth about himself is revealed.
Starluck
by Donald Wismer
F Wis
After escaping from his execution, Paul joins a secret revolutionary group which seeks to free the planet from the tyranny and suppression of the evil Emperor.
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