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.
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. |
By Reed, Robert Publishing Date: ©2000 Classification: SF Call Number: SF A planet called Marrow has been discovered at the center of the Ship that's "roamed the universe for longer than any of the immortal crew can recall, its true purpose and origins unknown."--Jacket. |
By Reynolds, Alastair Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous--a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band. |
NEW RELEASE By Scalzi, John Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "The second, thrilling novel in the bestselling Interdependency series, from Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi. The Interdependency, humanity's interstellar empire, is on the verge of collapse. The Flow, the extra-dimensional conduit that makes travel between the stars possible, is disappearing, leaving entire star systems stranded. When it goes, human civilization may go with it--unless desperate measures can be taken. Emperox Grayland II, the leader of the Interdependency, is ready to take those measures to help ensure the survival of billions. But nothing is ever that easy. Arrayed before her are those who believe the collapse of the Flow is a myth--or at the very least, an opportunity that can allow them to ascend to power. While Grayland prepares for disaster, others are preparing for a civil war, a war that will take place in the halls of power, the markets of business, and the altars of worship as much as it will take place between spaceships and battlefields. The Emperox and her allies are smart and resourceful, but so are her enemies. Nothing about this power struggle will be simple or easy... and all of humanity will be caught in its widening gyre" -- |
By Sherman, Josepha Publishing Date: ©1998 Classification: SF Call Number: SF |
The death and life of Superman: a novel By Stern, Roger Publishing Date: ©1993 Classification: SF Call Number: SF The events leading up to Superman's fatal battle with Doomsday and the strange events after Superman's death. The book was primarily adapted from the story serialized in comic books. |
By Stith, John E. Publishing Date: 1993 Classification: SF Call Number: SF When Manhattan--and everyone on it--is kidnapped into space by some unknown alien force, the humans trapped on the island are faced with a baffling (and terrifying) enigma. A new artificial dawn reveals that the city is encased in a bubble. Is this some sort of cosmic zoo exhibit, part of a scientific experiment? Or perhaps fresh groceries? |
By Tchaikovsky, Adrian Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?" -- |
By Varley, John Publishing Date: 2003 Classification: SF Call Number: SF An unlikely group of seven suburban misfits band together to construct a spaceship built out of old tanker cars that they call Red Thunder, determined to beat the Chinese in a race to become the first humans to set foot on Mars. |
By Varley, John Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Lieutenant Patricia Kelly Elizabeth Strickland--otherwise known as Podkayne--is a third-generation Martian. Her grandfather, Manny, was one of the first men to set foot on Mars. So Poddy has some planet-sized shoes to fill. That's why she's joined the Music, Arts, and Drama Division of the Martian Navy. Though some may say her voice is a weapon in itself, Poddy passed the audition. And now she's going to Europa, one of Jupiter's many moons, to be an entertainer. But she's about to learn that there's plenty of danger to go around in the Martian Navy, even if you've just signed on to sing. |
By Weber, David Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: SF Call Number: SF The war with the Republic of Haven has resumed . . . disastrously for the Star Kingdom of Manticore. Admiral Lady Dame Honor Harrington, Steadholder and Duchess Harrington, the single victorious Allied commander of the opening phase of the new war, has been recalled from the Sidemore System to command Eighth Fleet, which must stand between the Star Kingdom and total defeat. |
By Weber, David Publishing Date: [2003] Classification: SF Call Number: SF Drawn into an alien conflict when his ship is taken over and pitted against a dangerous ancient enemy, Colin Macintyre takes on the task of defeating a group of immortals who have been secretly ruling Earth. |