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- After Human by Thomas Connolly Shortlisted for the British Fantasy Awards (Non-Fiction) 2022 Shortlisted for the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Non-Fiction Award 2022 SF has long been understood as a literature of radical potential, capable of imagining entirely new worlds and ways of being. Yet SF has been slow to embrace posthumanist ideas about the human subject. The human of the SF tradition is instead a liminal being, caught somewhere between the transcendent 'Man' of classical humanism and the subversive 'cyborg' of posthumanist thought. This study offers a critical history of the 'human' in SF. By examining a range of SF works from 1818 to the 1970s, it seeks to answer some key questions: What role does technology play in defining what it means to be--or not to be--human? How do these writers understand the relationship between humanity and the rest of nature? And how can we use SF to re-examine our ethical position towards the non-human world and move to more egalitarian understandings of the human subject?Call Number: PR888.S35 C66 2021ISBN: 1800348169Publication Date: 2021-04-01
- After the Rain by Nnedi Okorafor; David Brame (Illustrator); John Jennings (Adapted by) After the Rain is an adaptation of Nnedi Okorafor's short story "On the Road." The adaptation begins in Nigeria during a violent and unexpected storm. A young NigerianAmerican woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing there. When he touches her, his hand burns like fire and he disappears. Chioma knows that something is wrong, and that the boy has "marked" her in some way . . . Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to face her future.Call Number: PN6727.J45 A647 2021ISBN: 9781419743559Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Alien Legacies by Nathan Abrams (Editor); Gregory Frame (Editor)Call Number: PN1995.9.A457 A445 2023ISBN: 9780197556030Publication Date: 2023
- The Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonCall Number: PS3553.R48 A5ISBN: 9780224617901Publication Date: 1969
- Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson).Call Number: PS3572.A4284 A84 2014ISBN: 9780374104092Publication Date: 2014
- Artemis by Andy Weir The bestselling author of The Martian returns with an irresistible new near-future thriller--a heist story set on the moon. Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity's first and only lunar colony.Call Number: PS3623.E4324494 A82 2017ISBN: 9780553448122Publication Date: 2017-11-14
- Attack of the Puppet People A crazed maniac creates a machine that shrinks people to foot-high figurines. He forces them to do his bidding, but the "puppets" rebel and are hell-bent on revenge.Call Number: MHC Leisure FilmsISBN: 9780792848653Publication Date: 1958
- Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler; Jesmyn Ward (Introduction by) "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans and a species of invaders.Call Number: PS3552.U827 B58 2022ISBN: 9781644212479Publication Date: 2022
- Blood Music by Greg Bear Vergil Ulam has created cellular material that can outperform rats in laboratory tests. When the authorities rule that he has exceeded his authorization, Vergil loses his job, but is determined to take his discovery with him.Call Number: PS3552.E157 B58 2014ISBN: 9781596871069Publication Date: 2005-10-01
- The Blue, Beautiful World by Karen LordCall Number: PR9230.9.L67 B58 2023ISBN: 9780593598436Publication Date: 2023-08-29
- Carrie by Stephen King The original film adaptation of Stephen King's legendary debut novel about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates.Call Number: PN1997 .C2847 2001ISBN: 0345805879Publication Date: 1976
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg Roy Neary is a cable worker who, along with several others, become stunned bystanders who have experienced a close encounter of the first kind - witnessing UFOs soar across the sky. After this life-changing event, the inexplicable vision of a strange, mountain-like formation haunts him. He becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents. Meanwhile, bizarre occurrences are happening around the world. Government agents have close encounters of a second kind - discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors in the form of a lost fighter aircraft from World War II and a stranded military ship that disappeared decades earlier only to suddenly reappear in unusual places. Roy continues to chase his vision to a remote area where he and the agents follow the clues that have drawn them to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind - contact.Call Number: PN1995.9.S26 C5674 2007ISBN: 9781424870820Publication Date: 2007
- Contagion by Erin Bowman Perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux, Jonathan Maberry, and horror films like 28 Days Later and Resident Evil, this pulse-pounding, hair-raising, utterly terrifying novel is the first in a duology from the critically acclaimed author of the Taken trilogy. After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project--including its members' dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried--and some monsters are only too ready to awaken.Call Number: PZ7.B68347 Co 2018ISBN: 9780062574145Publication Date: 2018-07-24
- Dark City When John Murdoch wakes with no memory at the scene of a grisly murder, he soon finds himself hunted by the police, a woman claiming to be his wife, and a mysterious group of pale men.Call Number: MHC Leisure FilmsISBN: 9780780680395Publication Date: 2008
- Dark Matter by Blake Crouch In this world he's woken up to, Jason's life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this life or the other that's the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make it back to the family he loves? From the bestselling author Blake Crouch, Dark Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of.Call Number: PS3603.R68 D37 2016ISBN: 9781101904220Publication Date: 2016-07-26
- The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair - with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica. After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan's body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast-before sharing everything includes sharing a jail cell.Call Number: PS3607.A35943 E28 2021ISBN: 9781250174666Publication Date: 2021-02-16
- Flux by Jinwoo ChongCall Number: PS3603.H662 F58 2023ISBN: 9781685890346Publication Date: 2023-03-21
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley; Johanna Smith Combining critical essays, contextual documents, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms with the original 1831 text, Frankenstein is supported by additional resources which help you think critically about the iconic text.Call Number: PR5397 .F7 2016ISBN: 9780312463182Publication Date: 2016
- Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels.Call Number: PR6073.I558 F73 2019ISBN: 9780802129499Publication Date: 2019-10-01
- Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn't admit it!) is back in Fugitive Telemetry! Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it's "one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I've ever read") Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today.Call Number: PS3573.E4932 F84 2021ISBN: 9781250765376Publication Date: 2021-04-27
- Gnomon by Nick Harkaway In the world of Gnomon, citizens are ceaselessly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of "transparency." When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody during a routine interrogation, Mielikki Neith, a trusted state inspector, is assigned to the case.Call Number: PR6108.A737 G59 2018ISBN: 9781524732080Publication Date: 2018-01-09
- Harrow by Joy Williams In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after the environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic.Call Number: PS3573.I4496 H37 2021ISBN: 9780525657569Publication Date: 2021-09-14
- Head On by John ScalziCall Number: PS3619.C256 H43 2018ISBN: 9780765388919Publication Date: 2018-04-17
- The Hopkins Manuscript by R. C. SherriffCall Number: PR6037.H513 H67 2023ISBN: 9781668003947Publication Date: 2023-01-17
- Hot Equations by Jesse S. Cohn Inspired by the new diversity of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in the twenty-first century, Hot Equations: Science, Fantasy, and the Radical Imagination on a Troubled Planet confronts the kinds of literary and political "realism" that continue to suppress the radical imagination.Call Number: PN3433.5 .C64 2024ISBN: 9781496850157Publication Date: 2024
- In the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.Call Number: PS3611.L86I5 2023ISBN: 9781250217448Publication Date: 2023-04-25
- Into Darkness Peering by Elisabeth Leonard This volume explores the significance of race and color in the works of a wide range of authors, including Octavia Butler, Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, and Robert Silverberg. This volume explores the significance of race and color in the works of a wide range of authors, including Octavia Butler, Joseph Conrad, Ursula Le Guin, Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, and Robert Silverberg. The chapters are written by expert contributors who approach their topics as both products of a particular cultural moment and as imagined alternatives. While most of the works examined are science fiction, the book also looks at horror and fantasy writing. Topics discussed include colonialism and empire, Creole identity politics, race in cyberspace, and witchcraft in Salem.Call Number: PN3435 .I58 1997ISBN: 0313300429Publication Date: 1997-07-30
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack FinneyCall Number: PN1995.9.S26 I583 1998ISBN: 0782009980Publication Date: 1998
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) by Daniel MainwaringCall Number: PN1997 .I588 1998ISBN: 0792838416Publication Date: 1978
- Invisible Things by Mat JohnsonCall Number: PS3560.O38167 I58 2022ISBN: 9780593229255Publication Date: 2022-06-28
- The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.Call Number: PZ7.N43843 Kni 2009ISBN: 9780763645762Publication Date: 2009-07-14
- Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff Raised in isolation on a small island off the coast of a post-apocalyptic Ireland, Orpen's life has revolved around training to fight a threat she's never seen. More and more she feels the call of the mainland, and the prospect of finding other survivors. But that is where danger lies, too, in the form of the flesh-eating menace known as the skrake.Call Number: PR6104.A8849 L37 2019ISBN: 9781250235220Publication Date: 2019-08-27
- Lilith's Brood by Octavia E. Butler Presented for the first time in one volume with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D., Lilith's Brood is a profoundly evocative, sensual--and disturbing--epic of human transformation.Call Number: PS3552.U827 L55 2000ISBN: 9780446676106Publication Date: 2000
- Lock In by John Scalzi A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi. Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge. A quarter of a century later, in a world shaped by what's now known as "Haden's syndrome," rookie FBI agent Chris Shane is paired with veteran agent Leslie Vann. The two of them are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder at the Watergate Hotel, with a suspect who is an "integrator" - someone who can let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the Integrator was carrying a Haden client, then naming the suspect for the murder becomes that much more complicated. But "complicated" doesn't begin to describe it. As Shane and Vann began to unravel the threads of the murder, it becomes clear that the real mystery - and the real crime - is bigger than anyone could have imagined. The world of the locked in is changing, and with the change comes opportunities that the ambitious will seize at any cost. The investigation that began as a murder case takes Shane and Vann from the halls of corporate power to the virtual spaces of the locked in, and to the very heart of an emerging, surprising new human culture. It's nothing you could have expected.Call Number: PS3619.C256 L63 2014ISBN: 9780765375865Publication Date: 2014
- The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McLaughlin; Link Neal Rex and Leif pair up with recent NYU film school grad Janine Blitstein to begin piecing together the unsettling truth of the school and its mysterious founder, Wayne Whitewood. What they find, with Alicia's life hanging in the balance, will leave them battling an evil beyond their wildest teenage imaginations-one that will shake Bleak Creek to its core.Call Number: PS3613.C576 L67 2019ISBN: 9781984822130Publication Date: 2019-10-29
- The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best First Novel! "This claustrophobic, horror-leaning tour de force is highly recommended for fans of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Andy Weir's The Martian." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival. When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she'd be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck--enough to get her off-planet and on the trail of her mother--meant she'd get a skilled surface team, monitoring her suit and environment, keeping her safe. Keeping her sane. Instead, she got Em. Em sees nothing wrong with controlling Gyre's body with drugs or withholding critical information to "ensure the smooth operation" of her expedition. Em knows all about Gyre's falsified credentials, and has no qualms using them as a leash--and a lash. And Em has secrets, too . . . As Gyre descends, little inconsistencies--missing supplies, unexpected changes in the route, and, worst of all, shifts in Em's motivations--drive her out of her depths. Lost and disoriented, Gyre finds her sense of control giving way to paranoia and anger. On her own in this mysterious, deadly place, surrounded by darkness and the unknown, Gyre must overcome more than just the dangerous terrain and the Tunneler which calls underground its home if she wants to make it out alive--she must confront the ghosts in her own head. But how come she can't shake the feeling she's being followedCall Number: PS3619.T3747 L86 2019ISBN: 9780062846907Publication Date: 2019-04-02
- The Memory Librarian by Janelle MonáeCall Number: PS3613.O52266 M46 2022ISBN: 9780063070875Publication Date: 2022-04-19
- Midnight Taxi Tango by Daniel José Older Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As an agent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New York's ghostlier problems. This time it's a string of gruesome paranormal accidents in Brooklyn's Von King Park that has already taken the lives of several locals--and is bound to take more.Call Number: PS3615.L415 M53 2016ISBN: 9780425275993Publication Date: 2016-01-05
- The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older "The Mimicking of Known Successes" presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle. On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony's erudite university--and Mossa's former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth's pre-collapse ecosystems. Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti's assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stake--and, perhaps, their futures, together.Call Number: PS3615.L39 M56 2023ISBN: 9781250860507Publication Date: 2023
- M Is for Monster by Talia Dutton When Doctor Frances Ai's younger sister Maura died in a tragic accident six months ago, Frances swore she would bring her back to life. However, the creature that rises from the slab is clearly not Maura. M Is for Monster is dedicated to showcasing gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual creators and stories.Call Number: PN6727.D895 M57 2022ISBN: 9781419762208Publication Date: 2022
- My Soul to Take by Tananarive Due Bestselling and award-winning author Tananarive Due's heart-stopping novel that continues the story of descendants of an immortal line of people who are the only ones capable of saving the world. Fana, an immortal with tremendous telepathic abilities, is locked in a battle of wills. Her fiancé is Michel. But Johnny Wright, a mortal who is in love with her, believes that if she doesn't stay away from Michel, they will become the Witnesses to the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation. Fana and the Life Brothers are rushing to distribute their healing "Living Blood" throughout the world, hoping to eliminate most diseases before Fana is bound to marry Michel. Still, they cannot heal people faster than Michel can kill them. Due weaves a tangled web in this novel, including beloved characters from her bestselling Joplin's Ghost, in a war of good against evil, making My Soul to Take a chilling and thrilling experience.Call Number: PS3554.U3143 M95 2011ISBN: 9781439176146Publication Date: 2011
- Never Whistle at Night by Shane Hawk (Editor); Theodore C. Van Alst (Editor)Call Number: PS647.I5 N48 2023ISBN: 9780593468463Publication Date: 2023
- The New Weird by Ann VanderMeer (Editor); Jeff VanderMeer (Editor) Descend into shadowy cities, grotesque rituals, chaotic festivals, and deadly cults. Plunge into terrifying domains, where bodies are remade into surreal monstrosities, where the desperate rage against brutal tyrants. Where everything is lethal and no one is innocent, where Peake began and Lovecraft left off - this is where you will find the New Weird. Edgy, urban fiction with a visceral immediacy, the New Weird has descended from classic fantasy and dime-store pulp novels, from horror and detective comics, from thrillers and noir. All grown-up, it emerges from the chrysalis of nostalgia as newly literate, shocking, and utterly innovative. Here is the very best of the New Weird from some of its greatest practitioners. This canonic anthology collects the original online debates first defining the New Weird and critical writings from international editors, culminating in a ground-breaking round-robin piece, 'Festival Lives,' which features some of the hottest new names in New Weird fiction.Call Number: PN6120.95.H727 N49 2008ISBN: 9781892391551Publication Date: 2008
- The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge Marina Willett has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the 'old gent' lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. Were they friends - or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina, a psychiatrist, doesn't believe them. A tour de force of storytelling inspired by Lovecraft and his gang.Call Number: PS3562.A269 N54 2017ISBN: 9781101981085Publication Date: 2017-03-07
- Night of the Living Dead by George Romero, John Russo A group of strangers become stuck in a house together as zombies rise in search of living human flesh.Call Number: PN1997 .N5215 2018ISBN: 9781681434025Publication Date: 1968
- Octavia's Brood by Walidah Imarisha (Editor); adrienne maree brown (Editor); Sheree Renee Thomas (Foreword by)Call Number: PN6120.95.S33 O37 2015ISBN: 1849352097Publication Date: 2015-04-07
- Paper Girls Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan; Cliff Chiang (Artist); Jared K. Fletcher (Artist) In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.Call Number: PN6728.P36 V38 2016 (1)ISBN: 9781632156747Publication Date: 2016-04-05
- Raising the Dead by Adam Charles HartCall Number: PN1998.3.R644 H37 2024ISBN: 0197686494Publication Date: 2024-03-13
- Remina by Junji Ito Another of Junji Ito's classics, the sci-fi masterwork Remina tells the chilling tale of a hell star. An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Oguro, christens the body "Remina" after his own daughter. His finding is met with great fanfare, and Remina herself rises to fame. However, the object picks up speed as it moves along in its curious course, eliminating planets and stars one after another, until finally Earth itself faces extinction... Is the girl Remina the true cause of the catastrophe? A masterwork of horror from Junji Ito, unfolding on a universal scale.Call Number: PN6790.J33 I8555413 2020ISBN: 9781974717477Publication Date: 2020-12-15
- Sawkill Girls by Claire LegrandCall Number: PZ7.L521297 Saw 2018ISBN: 9780062696601Publication Date: 2018-10-02
- Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty In this Hugo nominated science fiction thriller by Mur Lafferty, a crew of clones awakens aboard a space ship to find they're being hunted-and any one of them could be the killer. Maria Arena awakens in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. She has no memory of how she died. This is new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died. Maria's vat is one of seven, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it can awaken. And Maria isn't the only one to die recently. . . Unlock the bold new science fiction thriller that Corey Doctorow calls Mur's "breakout book".Call Number: PS3612.A3743 S59 2017ISBN: 9780316389686Publication Date: 2017-01-31
- Sorrowland by Rivers SolomonCall Number: PS3619.O43724 S67 2021ISBN: 0374266778Publication Date: 2021
- Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley n an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a macabre universe.Call Number: MHC Leisure FilmsISBN: 9786317404656Publication Date: 2018
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 2nd Norton Critical Edition by Robert Louis Stevenson; Deborah Lutz (Editor)Call Number: PR5485.A2 L56 2021ISBN: 9780393679212Publication Date: 2021
- Ten Planets by Yuri Herrera; Lisa Dillman (Translator) A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by "one of Mexico's finest novelists" (Vulture). The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions and Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics, these very short stories are an inspired extension of this significant writer's work. In Ten Planets, objects can be sentient and might rebel against the unhappy human family to which they are attached. A detective of sorts finds clues to buried secrets by studying the noses of his clients, which he insists are covert maps. A meager bacterium in a human intestine gains consciousness when a psychotropic drug is ingested. Monsters and aliens abound, but in the fiction of Yuri Herrera, knowing who is the monster and who the alien is a tricky proposition. In Ten Planets, Herrera's consistent themes--the mutability of borders, the wounds and legacy of colonial violence, and a deep love of storytelling in all its forms--are explored with evident brilliance and delight.Call Number: PQ7298.418.E7986 D5413 2023ISBN: 9781644452233Publication Date: 2023-03-21
- Them or Us by Patrick LucanioCall Number: PN1995.9.S26 L8 1987ISBN: 0253204356Publication Date: 1987-10-01
- The Thing by Jez Conolly Consigned to the deep freeze of critical and commercial reception upon its release in 1982, The Thing has bounced back spectacularly to become one of the most highly regarded productions from the 1980s 'Body Horror' cycle of films, experiencing a wholesale and detailed reappraisal that has secured its place in the pantheon of modern cinematic horror.Call Number: PN1997.T428537 C66 2013ISBN: 9781906733773Publication Date: 2014-01-07
- The Tiger Flu by Larissa LaiCall Number: PR9199.3.L2815 T54 2018ISBN: 9781551527314Publication Date: 2018-10-23
- Ubik by Philip Dick Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.Call Number: PS3554.I3 U24 1991ISBN: 9780679736646Publication Date: 1991
- Videodrome by David Cronenberg Cable TV programmer Max Renn seeks out the ultimate in bizarre shows for his channel. He meets a mysterious supplier named Harlan who gives him access to an underground sex and violence network called "Videodrome."Call Number: PN1997 .V522 1998ISBN: 0783228457Publication Date: 1998
- Voices from the Radium Age by Joshua Glenn (Editor, Introduction by)Call Number: PN6071.S33 V58 2022ISBN: 9780262543378Publication Date: 2022-03-08
- Warcross by Marie Lu From #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu--when a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its dangerous depths. For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game--it's a way of life. The obsession started ten years ago and its fan base now spans the globe, some eager to escape from reality and others hoping to make a profit. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down Warcross players who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty-hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy. To make some quick cash, Emika takes a risk and hacks into the opening game of the international Warcross Championships--only to accidentally glitch herself into the action and become an overnight sensation. Convinced she's going to be arrested, Emika is shocked when instead she gets a call from the game's creator, the elusive young billionaire Hideo Tanaka, with an irresistible offer. He needs a spy on the inside of this year's tournament in order to uncover a security problem . . . and he wants Emika for the job. With no time to lose, Emika's whisked off to Tokyo and thrust into a world of fame and fortune that she's only dreamed of. But soon her investigation uncovers a sinister plot, with major consequences for the entire Warcross empire. In this sci-fi thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu conjures an immersive, exhilarating world where choosing who to trust may be the biggest gamble of all.Call Number: PZ7.L96768 War 2017ISBN: 9780399547966Publication Date: 2017-09-12
- The War of the Worlds - the Original 1898 Classic (Reader's Library Classics) by H. G. Wells The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories to detail a conflict between humankind and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his younger brother who escapes to Tillingham in Essex as London and southern England is invaded by Martians.Call Number: PR5774 . W3 1993ISBN: 1954839413Publication Date: 2022-02-05
- The Weird by Ann VanderMeer (Editor); Jeff VanderMeer (Editor)Call Number: PN6071.H727 W46 2011ISBN: 9780765333605Publication Date: 2012-05-08
- Westworld: Season 1 A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past.Call Number: MHC Leisure FilmsISBN: 9786317011861Publication Date: 2017
- Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before by Diana Adesola Mafe When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Yet several decades passed before many other black women began playing significant roles in speculative (i.e., science fiction, fantasy, and horror) film and television--a troubling omission, given that these genres offer significant opportunities for reinventing social constructs such as race, gender, and class. Challenging cinema's history of stereotyping or erasing black women on-screen, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before showcases twenty-first-century examples that portray them as central figures of action and agency.Call Number: PN1995.9.B585 M25 2018ISBN: 9781477315224Publication Date: 2018-03-01
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