Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
April 2019 - June 2019
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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By Alten, Steve Publishing Date: 1997 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A deep-sea diver finds himself the sole survivor of an attack by a 20-ton Megalodon, the prehistoric mother of the Great White shark. Written off as a crackpot, he spends years studying the subject. But it takes a friend in need and a hotshot female sub driver to dare him back into the depths. |
By Anderson, Kevin J. Publishing Date: 1997 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "When a disease-ravaged body is found in the smoldering ruins of the federally funded DyMar genetic research lab, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully fear that a deadly man-made plague is on the loose. As the FBI agents investigating the "X-Files" - cases the bureau has deemed unsolvable - Mulder and Scully pursue the truth wherever it leads, even into the labyrinthine corridors of the FBI ... and beyond. Racing to contain the lethal virus before it can spread, Mulder and Scully make a chilling discovery. Before his death, Dr. David Kennessy, a hotshot cancer researcher at DyMar, had been experimenting with a promising but highly dangerous technology: microscopic bio-machines that can cure any disease, heal any wound. In theory this research could be a miracle cure, perhaps even a doorway to immortality. It was also the only way Dr. Kennessy could save his leukemia-stricken son. But when a second corpse turns up, savagely mutilated from within, it's anything but theoretical. Could machines created to cure have learned to kill? Scrambling for answers, Mulder and Scully are opposed at every step by faceless enemies with all the resources of the government - even perhaps of their own agency - at their command. Enemies who will stop at nothing to ensure that the secret of immortality falls in the right hands - their hands."--Jacket. |
By Bacigalupi, Paolo Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: SF Call Number: SF "A fantasy novel told in four parts about a land crippled by the use of magic, and a tyrant who is trying to rebuild an empire--unless the people find a way to resist"-- |
By Baxter, Stephen Publishing Date: 2010, c2009 Classification: SF Call Number: SF It's the year 2041. The oceans have risen rapidly, and soon the entire planet will be submerged. But hope has arisen with the discovery of another life-sustaining planet light-year away. Only a small number will be able to make the journey-- and the competition for survival can kill human compassion. |
By Baxter, Stephen Publishing Date: 1995 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A race of microscopic beings, who were genetically engineered to survive on the turbulent mantle of a neutron star and who vividly remember their superbeing creators, prepare for the biggest family reunion in history. |
By Baxter, Stephen Publishing Date: [2001] Classification: SF Call Number: SF This thrilling sequel to "Manifold" finds Reid Malenfant, fueled by curiosity, venturing to the far edge of the solar system. There, he discovers a strange alien artifact; a gateway allowing instantaneous travel through interstellar space. What lies beyond the other side of the gateway will push Malenfant beyond terror, sanity, and humanity itself. |
By Baxter, Stephen Publishing Date: c2000 Classification: SF Call Number: SF In 2010, more than a century of ecological damage, industrial technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation. As the world's governments turn inward, Reid Malenfant's solution to the problems plaguing the planet is the exploration and colonization of space. |
By Bear, Greg Publishing Date: 1985 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Ordered to destroy all products of unauthorized experimentation involving mammal genes, a researcher injects the altered cells into his own body. |
By Bishop, Michael Publishing Date: c1988 Classification: SF Call Number: SF The appearance of unicorns on a Colorado cattle ranch joins a dying man, the ranch owner, and a Ute man and his daughter in a test of courage and humanity - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Buckell, Tobias S. Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Twenty-seven years after washing up on the shores with no memory of his past, John deBrun discovers that he retains an understanding about a mythical artifact and becomes Nanagada's only chance for survival against the fearsome Azteca. |
By Buettner, Robert Publishing Date: 2004 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Mankinf's firse alien contact tears into Earth: tremendous projectiles launched from Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, vaporize entire cities. Millions are dead, millions more will die. Under siege, humanity gambles on one desperate counterstrile... In the glory days of world peace before the aliens came, Jason Wander never dreamed of going into the military. Then the Indianapolis Projectile kills his mother, and he's left an angry eighteen-year-old orphan, given to violent episodes. When one lands him in court, he's offered a choice: go to jail or join the army. He doesn't need to think twice. |
Llana of Gathol and John Carter of Mars By Burroughs, Edgar Rice Publishing Date: [1977] Classification: SF Call Number: SF |
By Card, Orson Scott Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: SF Call Number: SF The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army, but China has been devastated by the Formics' initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship. Earth's government has been reorganized for defense; it now comprises a Hegemon, a planetary official responsible for keeping all the formerly warring nations in line, and a Polemarch, responsible for organizing all the military forces of the planet into the new International Fleet. But ambition and politics, greed and self-interest remain. It is up to Will Bingwen, Mazer Rackam, Victor Delgado and Lem Juke be able to create a weapon that can effectively defend humanity, |
By Carver, Jeffrey A. Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: SF Call Number: SF After escaping a pirate stronghold, star rigger Renwald Legroeder and the seductive Tracey-Ace become embroiled in an ancient conflict within the "Centrist Worlds," in the sequel to The Infinity Link. 15,000 first printing. - (Baker & Taylor) |
By Cooper, Brenda Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Chelo Lee, her brother Joseph, and four other genetically enhanced children who have been abandoned on the colony world of Fremont struggle to make the dangerous, wild planet home and discover that a long-deserted space ship could hold the key to their survival. |
NEW RELEASE By Corey, James S. A. Publishing Date: 2019 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay. At the heart of the empire, Teresa Duarte prepares to take on the burden of her father's godlike ambition. The sociopathic scientist Paolo Cortazar and the Mephistophelian prisoner James Holden are only two of the dangers in a palace thick with intrique, but Teresa has a mind of her own and secrets even her father, the emperor, doesn't guess. And throughout the wide human empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante fights a brave rearguard action against Duarte's authoritarian regime. Memory of the old order falls away, and a future under Laconia's eternal rule--and with it, a battle that humanity can only lose--seems more and more certain. Because, against the terrors that lie between worlds, courage and ambition will not be enough..."-- |
By Daniel, Tony Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "Captain Arid Ricimer, an alien starship commander with integrity and a clever plan, attempts to defect to Earth with his officers and entire spaceship, a vessel that mounts a superweapon of almost unimaginable power. He's pursured by his former fleet, a force that has already devastated Earth and is poised to wipe out humanity from existence. Now Arid, along with his human allies, Captain Jim Coalbridge and alien analyst Lieutenant Commander Griff Leher must face down the forces of a tyrannical star empire"-- |
By Dietz, William C. Publishing Date: 2002 Classification: SF Call Number: SF After an alien invasion by the Saurons has devastated the Earth, Jack Manning and Alex Franklin join forces to undertake an underground war of resistance. |
By Drake, David Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Daniel Leary is Cinnabar's most successful space captain. His friend, Lady Adele Mundy, is its most efficient spy. But they've got their hands full this time as they face a world of slaves, where the most savage beasts in the jungle used to be human. |
By Drake, David Publishing Date: [2006] Classification: SF Call Number: SF The tyrannical Alliance continurs its war against the Republic of Cinnabar, and Daniel Leary, newly promoted to Commander, and his crew have a new mission: Stop Dunbar's World from falling to an invasion by the planet Pellegrino. Nataniel Arruns, son of the dictator of Pelligrino, has landed with an army, intending to set himself up as warlord and turn the planet's population into workers--serfs--of their new Pellegrinian masters. Dunbar's World has only its police force to oppose him. Those who rule Cinnabar's so-called ally would rather see Leary fail than succeed in stopping the invasion, and though he again commands the corvette Princess Cecile, on this mission she's no more than a private yacht: her missile tubes are empty. Somehow he must capture an enemy base defended by plasma cannon and shipkilling missiles and supported by a cruiser in orbit. But Leary has the help of Signals Officer Adele Mundy, who can make computer networks do the apparently impossible. Leary, Mundy and the crew of the Princess Cecile have gone up against impossible odds before...and their opponents are still wondering just what hit them. |
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