Science fiction
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:
"The Descendant of the Zonax", 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_burton_alexis_jordi.pdf
Overview
"Twenty-five-year-old twin sisters, Delta and Sanilia, descendants from the planet Ludar, find themselves separated after a teleportation accident. Their journey to find their way back to each other takes them through The Haven, an underground terraformed refuge for Ludarians on Earth, and Freidton, a small Ohio town with less than 1,500 residents. Along the way, Sanilia meets Rena, a soldier within The Haven, who is struggling with her sexuality; Delta meets Jordan, the son of the Sheriff...
Dates:
2024
The Divining, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_butler_sean.pdf
Overview
"It's 1991 and Melinda's having a hell of a year. Her husband's been murdered, and she's about to find out she's descended from space-aliens. Looking for a place to get her feet under her, she and her son Ben move to Danville, Texas and the house she inherited from her uncle, but the charming country veneer of the place hides many secrets. She doesn't know that an alien entity was marooned there when its ship crashed in the 1800s, and her family and other residents are descendants of alien...
Dates:
2022
The First of Them, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023fall_snow_jennifer.pdf
Overview
"The First of Them is a horror-themed science-fantasy fiction novel centered around a trans woman and her estranged twin brother. After strange happenings bring them back together, Collette and her brother Ethan must find out what connections lie between a psychologically deteriorating hospital patient and a missing USGS researcher as they deal with their own personal traumas, sibling rivalry, uncommon seismic events, and apparent paranormal unknowns. In the end, ties that bond them together...
Dates:
2023
The Fountain of Youth (A Novel), 2019
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Identifier: cw_2019spring_zolfonoon_wesline.pdf
Overview
"The year is 2078 and Mozaik Hayes has just begun his position at REbirth, a company devoted to individual beauty as well as the growth of family through the use of birthing pods. Mozaik is the first of second-tier citizen to ever work at such a prestigious company, and he is the first to ever uncover something so terribly earth-shattering with in it. Mozaik must now decide if he should reveal his discovery to the people he trusts the most or keep what he has seen to himself and pretend...
Dates:
2019
The Last Library in the Galaxy, 2024
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Identifier: pf_2024spring_wherren_annakatherine.pdf
Overview
"On an asteroid in a belt near the center of the Milky Way sits the last library in the galaxy. It's a place where one is just as likely to find a first edition copy of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice as an ancient alien timeship. Rowena isn't entirely sure how she found the position, but, reeling from her twin sister's death, she told herself, she was looking for an adventure. Just when she thinks she's setting in, it turns out the library's aging AI CardCAT starts acting strange. What...
Dates:
2024
The Orion incident, 2005
Item — Item 0113502742431: [Barcode: 0113502742431]
Overview
A science fiction novel that critiques and explores the fictional conventions and assumptions regarding humanity's 'First Contact' with intelligent, extraterrestrial life. -- abstract.
Dates:
2005
The Senator and the Sagittarians, 2023
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Identifier: cw_2023spring_gorjance_sophia.pdf
Overview
"The Senator and the Sagittarians follows Diana Hake, nee Graybeal, as she faces struggles both personal and public in her run for one of the seven Prime Senate seats for all of settled space. Set one thousand years in the future, the narrative is split between Di's present, where she deals with the ramifications of humanity's war with the alien Sagittarians, the fallout of her daughter's death, and the complexities of her campaign; and her past, which provides essential context for both the...
Dates:
2023
Tricentennial, 2022
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Identifier: pf_2022fall_yeazel_christopher.pdf
Overview
"Tricentennial is a sci-fi fantasy novel of approximately 50,000 words. Its protagonist, Marisol Rivera, is a cult survivor who leads a team of space-based commandos in a conflict she and many on Earth believe is being fought to ensure American dominance over the solar system's resources. Her greatest mentor, Michael Goff, is a publicly disgraced former military officer branded as a traitor by her government. As Marisol wrestles with distressing memories from her childhood, she is dispatched...
Dates:
2022
Undecided/Shimmer, 2021
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Identifier: sf_2021spring_washburn_nicholas.pdf
Overview
"UNDECIDED is an absurd comedy series, set in the world of college admissions, exploring whether outcasts, in an increasing categorized world, can find their own purpose. Through the lens of an admissions counselor, and outcast in his own right, the series contemplates whether the directionless can provide guidance, possibility, and hope to their community while also searching for the same. SHIMMER is a sci-fi drama series set within the toxicity of high school, examining burdgeoning [sic]...
Dates:
2021
Unmasked, 2023
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Identifier: pf_2023fall_knowlton_forrest.pdf
Overview
"Rose Evans is surviving on the street when an Amazon food delivery drone captures a shot of her face, unmasked, while she eats. Her location is confirmed by a surveillance drone and police are dispatched to apprehend her. Rose, a 16-year-old orphan, is sent to the group home where they send the girls no one else can handle. Taught to fight at an early age, she is recurited to the home's state champion mixed martial arts team. Rose soon finds herself in a foster home with unimagined wealth...
Dates:
2023
Written by Neil And The Osiris Nebula, 2024
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Identifier: sf_2024spring_bourke_jake.pdf
Overview
"WRITTEN BY NEIL is a half-hour sitcom, half live-action and half animated, that follows the creative process of imaginative yet scatterbrained grad student Neil Brooks as he embarks down the long, twisting road toward screenwriting stardom. Tasked with writing his first feature-length movie from start to finish, the pressure mounts as he finds himself unprepared and inexperienced, both as a writer and a person. Not to mention easily distracted. After all, a storyteller has no greater enemy...
Dates:
2024