Suggested Reading: Science Fiction

Science Fiction

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	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" --Douglas Adams
	Noise Mike Hoani journeys to the planet Kainui to study the language, culture, and evolution of the settlement, and finds an ocean world without a breathable atmosphere, and whose cities are built on artificial floating islands. -- Hal Clement
	Calculating God An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges, who says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist." -- Robert J. Sawyer
	Mendoza in Hollywood In the 24th century, Dr. Zeus Inc. discovered the secret of time travel, but only how to move backward. Now cyborg operatives are enduring the epochs of Earth's history — immortals dedicated to the company's great goal: "to make money and improve the lot of humankind." -- Kage Baker
	Infinity Beach We are alone. Or so it's believed, until Dr. Kimberly Brandywine sets out to find what happened to her clone-sister Emily. -- Jack McDevitt
	Dune Paul Atreides is the son of a betrayed duke given up for dead on a treacherous desert planet and adopted by its fierce, nomadic people, who help him unravel his most unexpected destiny -- Frank Herbert
	Friend of the Earth It's 2025, and Tyrone O'Shaughnessy Tierwater, baby boomer, ex-radical environmentalist, ex-con, ex-father, widower and divorcé, is seventy-five and battling to stay afloat in the rising Social-Securityless waters of a meteorologically-challenged society, working as an animal keeper for a wealthy but faded rock star. -- T.C. Boyle
	Burning the Ice More than a hundred years after a small band of humans stole an antimatter-fueled starship, a colony of those renegades' descendants is now struggling to survive on Brimstone, a barely habitable world of ice and bitter cold. -- Laura Mixon
	A Phule and His Money Captain Willard Phule and his company of misfits return in an all new, all-nutty adventure. To help develop a fledgling planet, the enterprising captain is venturing into the business of amusement parks--the final frontier. -- Robert Asprin & Peter J. Heck
	I, Robot According to the principles of robot behavior, Three Laws of Robotics, these are stories of robots gone mad, mind-reading robots, robots with a sense of humor, robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world. -- Isaac Asimov
	Shiva in Steel In a sector of the galaxy occupied by Earth-descended people, one Berserker computer, Shiva, like the Hindu god of destruction after which it was named, annihilates entire colonies with the help of its fiendish subordinates. -- Fred Saberhagen
	Probability Sun Earth is losing a war with the Fallers when a strange artifact is discovered that may be the key to humanity's salvation or a doomsday machine. -- Nancy Kress
	Stranger in a Strange Land A young human reared on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is brought to Earth where he must adapt to the planet's social injustices, population foibles, strong gravitational field and rich atmosphere. (The first scifi title to make The New York Times Book Review's best-seller list.) -- Robert A. Heinlein

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