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 Weber, David Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: SF Call Number: SF When her world is destroyed by planet pirates and her family is slaughtered, former commando leader Alicia DeVries turns pirate herself, steals a cutting-edge ship from the Empire, and launches a campaign to seek revenge on those responsible. |
By Whicker, Julia Publishing Date: 2018 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Wonderblood is Julia Whicker's literary debut, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals. A mad cow-like disease called "Bent Head" has killed off millions. Those who remain worship the ruins of NASA's space shuttles, and Cape Canaveral is their Mecca. Medicine and science have been rejected in favor of magic, prophecy, and blood sacrifice. When traveling marauders led by the bloodthirsty Mr. Capulatio invade her camp, a young girl named Aurora is taken captive as his bride and forced to join his band on their journey to Cape Canaveral. As war nears, she must decide if she is willing to become her captor's queen. But then other queens emerge, some grotesque and others aggrieved, and not all are pleased with the girl's ascent. Politics and survival are at the centre of this ravishing novel. |
By Williams, Walter Jon Publishing Date: 1990 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Two orphans steal back their father's spaceship. |
By Williamson, Jack Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: SF Call Number: SF Stumbling on ancient stones in the Sahara Desert, four adventurous excavators and poker buddies realize that they have discovered a gateway to other worlds, from technologically advanced planets to primitive civilizations. |
By Wilson, Robert Charles Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is a slacker in a beach community of expatriates, barely supporting his wife and daughter. Then one day he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the appearance of a two-hundred-foot stone pillar in the forested interior. This is no ordinary artifact. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base, freezing ice out of the air and emitting a burst of ionizing radiation. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. And the inscription chiseled into it commemorates a military victory...sixteen years in the future. Then, not much later, another, larger pillar arrives in the center of Bangkok - obliterating the city and killing thousands. Over the next several years, human society is transformed by these mysterious arrivals from, seemingly, its own near future. Who is the warlord "Kuin" whose victories they note? Scott wants only to rebuild his life. But some strange loop of causality keeps drawing him in, to the central mystery and a strange final battle with the future."--BOOK JACKET. |
By Wilson, Robert Charles Publishing Date: 1993 [i.e. 1992] Classification: SF Call Number: SF The Travelers, aliens orbiting the Earth, have offered humanity the chance to live forever, but is it such a good deal? |
By Zubrin, Robert Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: SF Call Number: SF "Five are chosen for the first mission to Mars; a top-gun Air Force pilot, a tomboy chief engineer, a brilliant scientist, a Texas geologist, and an adventurous historian. In spite of clashing egos and personal friction, the crew of the ship Beagle makes history by becoming the first humans to walk upon the Red Planet."--Jacket. |
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