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1) Agency
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Verity Jane, gifted app-whisperer, has been out of work since her exit from a brief but problematic relationship with a Silicon Valley billionaire. Then she signs the wordy NDA of a dodgy San Francisco start-up, becoming the beta tester for their latest product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. "Eunice," the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, soon manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and an unnervingly...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the most stunning achievements of moral philosophy is something we take for granted: moral universalism, or the idea that every human has equal moral worth. In What We Owe the Future, Oxford philosopher William MacAskill demands that we go a step further, arguing that people not only have equal moral worth no matter where or how they live, but also no matter when they live. This idea has implications beyond the obvious (climate change) - including...
4) Stillicide
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Water is commodified. The Water Train that serves the city increasingly at risk of sabotage. As news breaks that construction of a gigantic Ice Dock will displace more people than first thought, protestors take to the streets and the lives of several individuals begin to interlock. A nurse on the brink of an affair. A boy who follows a stray dog out of the city. A woman who lies dying. And her husband, a marksman: a man forged by his past and fearful...
5) Machinehood
Author
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of her. It's 2095 and people don't usually die from violence. Humanity is entirely dependent on pills that not only help them stay alive, but allow them to compete with artificial intelligence in an increasingly competitive gig economy. Daily doses protect against designer diseases, flow enhances focus, zips and buffs enhance physical...
Author
Series
Chronos origins volume 1
Publisher
47 North
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In 2136 Madison Grace uncovers a key to the origins of Chronos, a time travel agency with ties to her family's mysterious past. Just as she is starting to jump through history, she returns to her timeline to find millions of lives erased--and only the people inside her house realize anything has changed. In 2304 Chronos historian Tyson Reyes is assigned to observe the crucial events that played out in America's civil rights movement. But a massive...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Troubled because her brother has told her that the future of Earth is bleak, a little girl goes to her grandmother who assures her that there are many possible futures and encourages her to use her imagination to explore some of the alternatives.
8) Followers
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Orla Cadden is a budding novelist stuck in a dead-end job, writing clickbait about movie-star hookups and influencer yoga moves. Then Orla meets Floss - a striving, wannabe A-lister - who comes up with a plan for launching them both into the high-profile lives they dream about. So what if Orla and Floss's methods are a little shady - and sometimes people get hurt? Their legions of followers can't be wrong. Thirty-five years later, in a closed California...
Author
Publisher
Nova
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Cixin Liu nos lleva a través del tiempo y el espacio: desde una comunidad rural de montaña en 'The Village Teacher', donde los estudiantes de primaria deben usar la física para evitar una invasión alienígena; a las minas de carbón del norte de China en 'Fuego en la Tierra', donde la nueva tecnología salvará vidas o desencadenará un fuego que arderá durante siglos; a un tiempo muy parecido al nuestro, en la historia 'Mirror', cuando las computadoras...
10) Gamechanger
Author
Series
The bounceback volume 1
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Rubi Whiting is a member of the Bounceback Generation, the first to be raised free of the troubles of the late-21st century. Now she works as a public defender to help troubled individuals with anti-social behavior. That's how she met Luciano Pox. But there's more to him than being a lightning rod for controversy. Rubi has to find out why the governments of the world want to bring Luce into custody, and why Luce is hell bent on stopping the recovery...
Author
Series
Last judgement's fire series volume 1
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty years ago, the world ended. Giant electrovoric ants and pterodons came through a rift in space-time, millions of humans died, and that was that. Thirty years later, humanity has rebuilt . . . to an extent. Without electricity, human ingenuity has provided some creative solutions, but most folks survive at the subsistence level, farming to keep themselves and their families fed. Chuck Gibson never thought he'd have to leave his family's farm....
12) Firebreak
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side....
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world--rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A science-fiction graphic novella grounded in a familiar experience for most: spending an afternoon with our best pals over a burger and fries. But this joint has something more special than a Happy Meal: the "Once Party" menu. The "Once Party" menu, for ages 11 and up, can only be ordered once (of course). But there's a catch: not everyone who does gets the special prize. Those who do, go to a room where they can view five minutes of one of three...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Jason Sloane and his seventh-grade friends are the first to sign up for a strange new club that monitors school security footage, but when the new computers show the club members themselves as unlikable high school seniors five years in the future they scramble to solve the mystery.
16) Vigil Harbor
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A decade in the future, in the historic town of Vigil Harbor, there's been a rash of divorces among the yacht-club set; a marine biologist despairs at the state of the world; a spurned wife is bent on revenge; and the renowned architect Austin Kepner pursues a passion for building homes to withstand the escalating fury of coastal storms. Brecht, Austin's stepson, has dropped out of college and retreated home from New York after narrowly escaping...
17) Mister Orange
Author
Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Linus Muller takes over making deliveries for his family's Manhattan grocery store in 1943, including bringing a crate of oranges every other week to an artist from Europe, the two become friends as they discuss war, the future, freedom, and imagination.
19) Dragon City
Author
Series
Dragon Realm volume 3
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Billy Chan and his friends have been transported 5,000 years into the future where the evil Dragon of Death has become ruler of Dragon City. Humans now live to serve the dragon population, and it's no different for Billy, Charlotte, Dylan, and Ling-Fei. After losing contact with their own dragons, they're determined to track them down in this new city, even if it means putting their own lives at risk. But one dragon has turned to the dark side and...
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