After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
Science fiction
- Author:DeStefano, LaurenSummary:
- Author:Williams, DavidSummary:
A riveting and unexpected novel that questions whether a peaceful and nonviolent community can survive when civilization falls apart. When a catastrophic solar storm brings about the collapse of modern civilization, an Amish community...
- Author:HARRISON, HarrySummary:
Robots control everything in human affairs: their laws, religion, politics and libraries. They were a benevolent power, but as time passed, they wanted more. Revolt by the humans was inevitable, leading to the War with the Robots to...
- Author:Haddix, Margaret PetersonSummary:
Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is...
- Author:Palmer, Ada.Summary:
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer-a spiritual counselor in a world that has...
- Author:CATRAN, KenSummary:
Creatures of nightmares have come from the sky and the ocean. Jon has to become a warrior to protect his family and human life itself against the fury of the alien attack. Then he meets Bronwyn who questions the new order. Jon has to...
- Author:ELTON, BenSummary:
A humorous account of how we would like to save the world by the marketing of a sexy consumer "Claustrosphere" which is a self-contained, tough eco-shelter for the domestic user. A global adventure of stupendous pace and...
- Author:CUMMINGS, RaySummary:
Out of nowhere came these grim, cold, black-clad men, to kidnap three Earth people and carry them to a weird and terrible world where a man could be a giant at will.
- Author:Lewis, BethSummary:
True Grit meets The Road in this postapocalyptic psychological thriller--narrated by a young girl who has just learned that her adopted father may be a serial killer, and that she may be his next victim. Everything Elka knows of the...
- Author:Crewe, MeganSummary:
Sixteen-year-old old Kaelyn challenges her fears, finds a second chance at love, and fights to keep her family and friends safe as a deadly new virus devastates her island community.
- Author:Wells, H. G.Summary:
Humanity's worst fears come true in this grand science fiction adventure. Through telescopes fixed on faraway planets, scientists begin noticing strange events on the surface of Mars. Soon after, a mysterious object lands in the middle...
- Author:CLARKE, Arthur CSummary:
What would happen if someone invented a device that rendered guns and bombs virtually harmless? What would be the effect on crime, on terrorism, on international relations? Would it mean the end to war?
- Author:NIVEN, LarrySummary:
Two stories from `A science fiction argosy'. 1. The third level by Larry Niven 2. Becalmed in hell by J. Finney.
- Author:Pratt, TamaraSummary:
Eden Mellor needs to prove she didn't kill her brother, Liam. Enter, the Story Makers. Sixteen-year-old Eden Mellor is living in a world where the population has become a victim of information overload and there’s no...
- Author:Clayton, EmmaSummary:
In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and...
- Author:ADAMS, DouglasSummary:
If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe? Which is exactly what the crew of the Heart of Gold plan to do. There's just the...
- Author:ASIMOV, IsaacSummary:
A flash of an explosion at a nuclear power station; can it alter the course of history? From `A science fiction argosy'.
- Author:Buell, JohnSummary:
When heroin-addicted call girl Elizabeth Lucy dies in a fall from a swanky penthouse terrace, homicide detective Henderson is assigned to the case. Was it murder? Suicide? Through his investigation, Henderson uncovers a frightening...
- Author:ASIMOV, IsaacSummary:
What does a robot have to do to prove its humanity? When NDR 113 came off the assembly lines he was designed as a household servant, but it soon became apparent to his owners that he was something unique.
- Author:Delany, Samuel R.Summary: