Science fiction, fantasy, and everything that lies in between and around the edges are great choices of reading material. Check out our staff Sci-Fi book recommendations!
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Description: Meet the Eternal Family. They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in Illinois — and they are not like other midwesterners. Rarely encountered in daylight hours, their children are curious and wild and their old ones have survived since anceint Egypt…
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Description: This book introduces the reader to Elbryan Wyndon and Jilseponie Ault, two young friends whose lives are irrevocably changed by the destruction of their village of Dundalis. First in the series.
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Description: Join in the adventures of Tristan Serege as he and his mother are united with his father, the commander of the United World’s most elite space-attack forces.
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Description: After 10 centuries trapped in a cave, King Arthur is finally rescued by Merlin, who has aged backwards enough to slip through the bars of his own prison. The “once and future king” arrives, in armor, on the streets of the Big Apple.
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Description: War and chaos have gripped the land of Tir Asleen. An ancient prophecy reveals one hope: a savior princess who will ascend to the throne when the time is right.
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Description: In a world scarred by an apocalyptic past, two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveler, Anasurimbor Kellhus-part warrior, part philosopher, part sorcerous, charismatic presence-from lands long thought dead.
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Description: When the Robot War ignites — at a moment known later as Zero Hour — humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united.
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Description: A thrilling and original coming-of-age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real world.
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Description: Arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig never believed his crimes were hanging offenses — until he found himself with a noose around his neck, dropping through a trap door, and falling into … a government job? This is a Discworld novel.
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Description: Windswept passes and forbidding glaciers stand at the top of the world. Below them, in the cold valleys, an evil force broods: the magic of Crenshinibon, the crystal shard. Now dwarf, barbarian, and drow elf join to battle this evil.
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Description: Corran Horn, hero of Rogue Squadron and former Corellian Security Force officer, has a problem: his wife, Mirax, has disappeared while on a secret mission. Horn joins Luke Skywalker’s Jedi academy as a charter recruit, tangles with a 4,000-year-old Sith lord, and goes undercover to infiltrate a notorious band of pirates.
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Description: Life on a distant colonized planet takes an interesting turn for a man who flees justice and finds himself on a quest to solve a 250-year-old mystery.
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Description: As the only daughter and youngest child of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters, Sorcha grows up protected and pampered by her six older brothers. When a sorceress’s evil magic ensorcels Colum’s sons, transforming them into swans, only Sorcha’s efforts can break the curse.
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Description: Now, in Darwin’s Radio, Bear draws on state-of-the-art biological and anthropological research to give us an ingeniously plotted thriller that questions everything we believe about human origins and destiny–as civilization confronts the next terrifying step in evolution.
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Description: The Alastor Cluster: A sprawling system of thirty thousand live stars and three thousand inhabited planets, the cluster is ruled by the mysterious Connatic. He sees all and knows all, but with five trillion people contained within such far-flung boundaries, sooner or later something is bound to give.
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Description: A novel about a remarkable man, a living saint, a life-long celibate and Jesuit priest, who undergoes an experience that makes him question the existence of God. This experience–the first contact between human beings and intelligent extraterrestrial life–begins with a small mistake and ends in a horrible catastrophe.
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Description: As a corrupt Commonwealth rules the galaxy through the might of its armies, its most influential general–a renegade Guardian of the deposed Starfire royal line–pursues the rumor of a hidden heir to the throne and searches for a woman he loves and is destined to destroy.
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Description: As an asteroid named “Kali” hurtles toward earth on a collision course that spells the end to life on the planet, a lone spaceship armed with a weapon to alter the asteroid’s path attempts to carry out its perilous mission–unaware that others are simultaneously working for earth’s destruction.
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Description: The peaceful villagers of Emond’s Field pay little heed to rumors of war in the western lands until a savage attack by troll-like minions of the Dark One forces three young men to confront a destiny which has its origins in the time known as The Breaking of the World.
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Description: Young nobleman Luthien Bedwyr lives far away from the evildoings of Wizard-King Greensparrow. But when a friend is murdered, Luthien’s desire for revenge pits him against the King’s terrifying power and forces him to become a fugitive, an outlaw who will discover the power to fight with a newfound magic to match his own.
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Description: The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey to distant worlds with a beautiful woman at his side. Of course there’s a catch to the invitation–and a prophetic vision about the purpose of human life that only Vonnegut has the courage to tell.
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Description: A population of one. With everything she needs to sustain her, and her independent spirit to buoy her, Ofelia actually does start life over-for the first time on her own terms: free of the demands, the judgments, and the petty tyrannies of others.
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Description: Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines.
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Description: The Magic of Recluce is a carefully-plotted fantasy novel of character about the growth and education of a young magician.
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Description: The battle to free Eriador from the grip of the tyrannical Wizard-King Greensparrow continues.Although the humans, elves and dwarves led by young Luthien Bedwyr, The Crimson Shadow, have retaken the city of Montfort from Greensparrow and have restored the city’s ancient name of Caer MacDonald, the battle for freedom has just begun.
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Description: After 10 long centuries spent trapped in a magical cave, King Arthur is finally rescued by a pint-sized, wisecracking Merlin, who has aged backwards enough to slip through the bars of his own prison. The “once and future king” arrives, in armor, no less, on the streets of the Big Apple.
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Description: Sir Adam Sinclair, nobleman, physician, and scholar, is the only man who can stand against an unholy cult of black magicians threatening his homeland.
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Description: It is the electrifying story of a psychologist who has devoted her life to tracking death. But when she volunteers for a research project that simulates the near-death experience, she will either solve life’s greatest mystery — or fall victim to its greatest terror.
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Description: In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, 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.
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Description: Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, once again visits the unpredictable world of time travel. But this time the result is a joyous journey into a past and future of comic mishaps and historical cross-purposes, in which the power of human love can still make all the difference.
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Description: Roland and his band of followers have narrowly escaped one world and slipped into the next. There Roland tells them a tale of long-ago love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman. And they will be drawn into an ancient mystery of spellbinding magic and supreme menace.