Science Fiction – Sci/Fi
Science fiction books are fascinating, warnings or promises of what could be. They are alternate universes, sometimes with the possibility of actually becoming reality.
Shalador’s Lady: A Black Jewels Novel by Bishop, Anne
With the end of the cruel reigns of corrupted Queens, the people of Shalador look to a new ruler with a mixture of hope and trepidation.
The Rose-Jeweled Queen, Lady Cassidy, embarks on a quest to prove herself to those who must accept her and to the land that has gone so long without the healing touch of a Queen.
Bishop’s latest addition to her "Black Jewels" series (The Shadow Queen; Tangled Webs) brings to the fore a heroine who possesses more courage than restraint and who does not hesitate to risk herself for what she loves.
A lavishly detailed, exotic background in which women exercise the power of leadership and jewels serve as the source of magic brings to mind the sensual fiction of Tanith Lee and Storm Constantine and should appeal to fans of dynastic fantasy.
Recommended Science Fiction Novels
1984 by George Orwell
2001: a Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke
The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Shusterman
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
The Diary of Pelly D by L. J. Adlington
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Duplicate by William Sleator
The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
Enchantress from the Stars by Sylvia Louise Engdahl
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Eva by Peter Dickinson
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Fade by Robert Cormier
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Feed by M. T. Anderson
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
House of Stairs by William Sleator
The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Interstellar Pig by William Sleator
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Second Sight by Gary Blackwood
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert a. Heinlein
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
The Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
The White Mountains by John Christopher
The Year of the Hangman by Gary Blackwood
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’brien
