SCIENCE FICTION

Star Wars® & Books Like 'Em | Teens in Trouble | New Societies | Trouble in Space

STAR WARS® & BOOKS LIKE 'EM

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov-- A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, plant a colony to encourage art, science, and technology in the declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind. (book one of Foundation series)
• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov-- a collection of tales chronicles the near-future development of the robot and features models that have the ability to read minds, experience human emotions, and take over the world. (Book one of Robot Series)
• Falling Free by Louis McMaster Bujold-- When an assignment takes engineer Leo Graff to Cay Habitat, he discovers hundreds of helpless children called quaddies being exploited for corporate gain, but adopting them is just the start--he must teach the quaddies the meaning of freedom. (Book one of Vorkosigan series)
• Galactic Warlord by Douglas Hill-- To avenge the destruction of his home planet and its people, Keill seeks the identity of an evil genius he and others believe is responsible. (Book One of Galactic Warlord Series)

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TEENS IN TROUBLE

• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card-- An expert at simulated war games, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin believes that he is engaged in one more computer war game when, in truth, he is commanding the last Earth fleet against an alien race seeking Earth's complete destruction. (Book One of Ender Wiggin Series)
• Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix-- A government decree allows each family only two children. For Luke, a third child, this has meant a lifetime of hiding. But could a stray glimpse of a child hiding in the house across the way lead to freedom? (Shadow Children, Book One)
• Phoenix: a Tale of the Future by Osamu Tezuka-- In the year 3404 fugitive space patrolman Masato, illegally harboring a friendly alien creature, flees one of the last homes of the human race, which sparks a conflict between the last humans that seems like the end for humanity. But Phoenix, the Spirit of the Earth, has other plans.
• Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville-- Fourteen-year-old Marina and sixteen-year-old Jed accompany their parents' religious cult, the Believers, to await the end of the world atop a remote mountain, where they try to decide what they they believe.

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NEW SOCIETIES

• House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer--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.
• The Giver by Lois Lowry--Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. (companions are Gathering Blue and Messenger)
• Truesight by David Stahler Jr. -- 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.
• City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau--In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. (Sequel is The People of Sparks)
• Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank--The survivors of a nuclear holocaust are forced to rely on their own resources as they join together in the struggle for survival amidst the ruins of Fort Repose, a small town in Florida.
• The Dirt Eaters by Dennis Foon-- Living on a post-apocalyptic Earth, Roan, the sole survivor of the people of Longlight, joins a warrior sect to seek his revenge, but when he begins to have doubts about his new life of violence, he turns to his new friend, Alandra, for guidance.

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TROUBLE IN SPACE

• The Supernaturalist by Eoin Colfer--In futuristic Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three other people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures, and together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.
• Marooned by Brad Strickland-- Set in a specialized colony on Mars in 2085, the twenty selected teens that live within this developing city of several thousand are aware that they are always being monitored and so depend on one another for support. (Mars: Year One)
• Silver Eyes: a novel by Nicole Luiken-- Unable to remember her past, violet eyed due to a genetic experiment, and controlled by a brain chip, eighteen-year-old Angel Eastland has been hired to capture Michael Vallant, for whom she feels an inexplicable sense of attachment.
• The Secret Under My Skin by Janet McNaughton-- In the year 2368, humans exist under dire environmental conditions and one young woman, rescued from a workcamp and chosen for a special duty, uses her love of learning to discover the truth about the planet's future and her own dark past.

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