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.
Additional information about each title can be found in the catalog (click on the title). For older acquisition lists choose from Select another list. To request any of these titles please contact your local library branch.
The howling stones: a novel of the commonwealth By Foster, Alan Dean Publishing Date: c1997 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Continues the saga of the amazing world of the Humanx Commonwealth, the interstellar empire governed jointly by humans and insectoid Thranx aliens. |
By Gardner, James Alan Publishing Date: c2000 Classification: SF Call Number: SF In the fourth volume of the League of Peoples series, Alexander York is one of the High Council's most iron-fisted admirals. When his children, Samantha and Edward, were born, he paid top dollar to have their DNA altered to insure they grew up perfect physical and mental specimens. But when Edward ended up with a faulty brain, his father sentenced him to join the Expendables, a band of misfits and the deformed mandated to explore the most dangerous parts of the galaxy. Accompanying his sister on a mission to Troyen, an anguished planet and home to the Mandasar, Edward finds himself in the middle of a civil war and is ultimately exiled. As violence escalates, Edward struggles to navigate a treacherous path with the assistance of none other than Festina Ramos--the greatest Explorer of all. |
By Gardner, James Alan Publishing Date: ©1999 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Two species lived in peaceful coexistence on the planet Demoth until a deadly plague wiped out millions of the winged Ooloms while leaving humans untouched, helpless to do more than ease the suffering of their alien friends and neighbors. Faye Smallwood saw the horror firsthand, caring for the plague victims in her fahter's hospital. She was there when he discovered the cure that made him famous. She was also there when a freak accident killed him. Desperate to escape her past, Faye joins the Vigil, a band of fiercely independent monitors charged with rooting out government corruption. To help in this struggle, her mind is linked to the powerful datasphere that regulates the planet ... and suddenly, she receives a cryptic vision promising peace and healing. Instead, Faye becomes the target of unknown assassins in a sinister conspiracy that threatens to unleash a new and more deadly outbreak. For humans and Ooloms were not the first species to inhabit Demoth. Somewhere in the ruins of long-abandoned settlements, something was left behind: an alien technology of unimaginable potential to build--or destroy. Enemy agents will stop at nothing to find it. Some of Faye's own people will kill to uncover its secret. With no one else to trust, she turns to the one person who can help unravel the mystery: Festina Ramos--explorer, outcast, ever-vigilant champion of those whom society deems expendable. |
By Haldeman, Joe W. Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: SF Call Number: SF The mysterious alien Others have prohibited humans from space travel--destroying Earth's fleet of starships in a display of unimaginable power. Now Carmen Dula, the first human to encounter Martians and then the mysterious Others, and her colleagues struggle to find a way, using nineteenth-century technology, to reclaim the future that has been stolen from them. |
By Haldeman, Joe W. Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against. And when she ventures out into the bleak Mars landscape alone one night, a simple accident leads her to the edge of death until she is saved by an angel--an angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad, and a message for the newly arrived human inhabitants of Mars: We were here first.--From publisher description. |
By Hamilton, Peter F. Publishing Date: c2002 Classification: SF Call Number: SF When his platoon is sent to a distant planet to stop a rebellion, Lawrence, determined to escape the constraints of the military, decides to steal their legendary gemstone, the Fallen Dragon, to get the money he needs. |
By Heinlein, Robert A. Publishing Date: 1963 Classification: SF Call Number: SF While accompanying their uncle, a wily politician, on a trip from Mars to Earth, Podkayne and her brilliant but pesky younger brother are caught up in a plot to keep Uncle Tom from an important conference. |
By Heinlein, Robert A. Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Two young lovers are forced apart by pride, power, and the immensity of interstellar time and space, in an authorized version of an unfinished novel by Hugo Award-winning late science fiction master Robert Heinlein. |
By Hickam, Homer H. Publishing Date: 1999 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A cosmic romp in which Jack Medaris, a former astronaut who is a widower, saves the female crew of a NASA spaceship from an attack by chauvinist astronauts. The ladies take him to the moon, he finds romance and brings back a rare helium element which will help his business. |
The book of fours: a historie of the four Slayers, this being their first adventure By Holder, Nancy Publishing Date: ©2001 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Catastrophic events happening in Sunnydale seem to have a connection with Buffy's nightmares and Faith thinks she knows where they originated. |
By McAuley, Paul J. Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Confluence is a man-made world, half fertile river valley, half crater strewn desert. It is a world at the end of its time, a place of savagery, bureaucracy and war, inhabited by countless flying micromachines and then thousand bloodlines ruled by devotion to absent gods. It is also the home of Yama, who was found as an infant floating down the river and raised by the prelate of Aeolis. Yama is the last remaining scion of The Builders, and now, awed and fearful of his growing abilities to awaken the artifacts of an earlier age, he must search for his identity and history. |
By McAuley, Paul J. Publishing Date: c1991 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Dorthy Yoshida's extraordinary mental ability to touch the past and the future has made her the pawn of a wealthy immortal's vengeance--rocketing her to the black hole at the core of the galaxy. |
By McCaffrey, Anne Publishing Date: [2000] Classification: SF Call Number: SF Three bestselling volumes--Sassinak, The Death of Sleep, and Generation Warriors--together in a single giant novel. McCaffrey traces the careers of two remarkable women--Sassinak and Lunzie--who work together to save a confederation of worlds. |
By Mezrich, Ben Publishing Date: ©1999 Classification: SF Call Number: SF In this chilling new novel based on the phenomenal "X-Files" TV series, FBI Agents Mulder and Scully investigate yet another of the strange and inexplicable cases that the FBI wants to keep hidden--and find themselves entangled in a supernatural situation guaranteed to make readers' skin crawl. |
By Moon, Elizabeth Publishing Date: c1997 Classification: SF Call Number: SF All Esmay Suiza wanted was a secure berth where she could be part of something greater than herself and otherwise just live her life in peace, but she finds herself in the middle of a space battle. |
By Moon, Elizabeth Publishing Date: c1998 Classification: SF Call Number: SF To get away from a messy love life, space heiress Brun Meager heads for a trip among the stars, only to land in an even bigger mess when she is captured and raped. The perpetrators are the New Texas Godfearing militia. A sequel to Once a Hero. |
By Niven, Larry Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: SF Call Number: SF The first interstellar starship, John Glenn, fled a Solar System populated by rogue AIs and machine/human hybrids, threatened by too much nanotechnology, and rife with political dangers. The John Glenn's crew intended to terraform the nearly pristine planet Ymir, in hopes of creating a utopian society that would limit intelligent technology. But by some miscalculation they have landed in another solar system and must shape the gas giant planet Harlequin's moon, Selene, into a new, temporary home. Their only hope of ever reaching Ymir is to rebuild their store of antimatter by terraforming the moon. Gabriel, the head terraformer, must lead this nearly impossible task, with all the wrong materials: the wrong ships and tools, and too few resources. His primary tools are the uneducated and nearly-illiterate children of the original colonists, born and bred to build Harlequin's moon into an antimatter factory. Rachel Vanowen is one of these children. Basically a slave girl, she must do whatever the terraforming Council tells her. She knows that Council monitors her actions from a circling vessel above Selene's atmosphere, and is responsible for everything Rachel and her people know, as well as all the skills, food, and knowledge they have ever received. With no concept of the future and a life defined with duty, how will the children of Selene ever survive once the Council is through terraforming and have abandoned Selene for its ultimate goal of Ymir? |
By Niven, Larry Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Having recently escaped from hell, Allan Carpenter is haunted by the imprisonment of unfairly tortured souls and partners with suicide-victim poet Sylvia Plath for a mission to return to hell and rescue the damned. |
Forerunner: the second venture By Norton, Andre Publishing Date: [1985] Classification: SF Call Number: SF Simsa has within her the spirit of the Elder One and the knowledge of her ancient race. Experimented upon by curious humans she escapes to an alien planet where she is pursued by a man. Is he friend or foe? |
By Penelope, L. Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Orphaned and alone, Jasminda lives in a land where cold whispers of invasion and war linger on the wind. Jasminda herself is an outcast in her homeland of Elsira, where her gift of Earthsong is feared. When ruthless soldiers seek refuge in her isolated cabin, they bring with them a captive, an injured spy who threatens to steal her heart. Jack's mission behind enemy lines to prove that the Mantle between Elsira and Lagrimar is about to fall nearly cost him his life, but he is saved by the healing Song of a mysterious young woman. Now he must do whatever it takes to save Elsira and its people from the True Father and he needs Jasminda's Earthsong to do it. They escape their vicious captors and together embark on a perilous journey to save Elsira and to uncover the secrets of The Queen Who Sleeps. Thrust into a hostile society, Jasminda and Jack must rely on one another even as secrets jeopardize their bond. As an ancient evil gains power, Jasminda races to unlock a mystery that promises salvation. The fates of two nations hang in the balance as Jasminda and Jack must choose between love and duty to fulfill their destinies and end the war. |