Sci-Fi

Blood for Blood

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Blood for Blood (Wolf by Wolf #2) by Ryan Graudin (2016)

blood for blood

YA Fiction | Historical (WWII) | Sci-Fi
4 StarsBlurb:

“There would be blood. Blood for blood. Blood to pay. An entire world of it.

For the resistance in the Third Reich, the war may be over, but the fight has just begun. Death camp survivor Yael, who has the power to skinshift, is on the run: the world has just seen her shoot and kill Hitler. But the truth of what happened is far more complicated, and its consequences are deadly. Yael and her unlikely comrades dive into enemy territory to try to turn the tide against Hitler’s army, and there is no alternative but to see their mission through to the end, whatever the cost.  Continue reading →

Ready Player One

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (2011)

ready player one

YA Fiction | Sci-Fi | Dystopia
2.5 StarsBlurb:

“It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.

Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.  Continue reading →

Golden Son

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Golden Son (Red Rising #2) by Pierce Brown (2015)

golden son

Fiction | Sci-Fi | Dystopia
4 StarsBlurb:

“As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds—and their only path to liberation is revolution. Continue reading →

Wayfarer

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Wayfarer (Passenger #2) by Alexandra Bracken (2017)

wayfarer

YA Fiction | Time-Travel
3 StarsBlurb:

“All Etta Spencer wanted was to make her violin debut when she was thrust into a treacherous world where the struggle for power could alter history. After losing the one thing that would have allowed her to protect the Timeline, and the one person worth fighting for, Etta awakens alone in an unknown place and time, exposed to the threat of the two groups who would rather see her dead than succeed. Continue reading →

Station Eleven

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (2014)

station eleven

Fiction | Sci-Fi | Post-Apocalyptic
3.5 StarsBlurb:

“An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.  Continue reading →

Artemis

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Artemis by Andy Weir (2017)

Artemis

Fiction | Sci-Fi
4 StarsBlurb:

“Jazz Bashara is a criminal.

Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you’re not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you’ve got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent.  Continue reading →

Assassin Marked

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Assassin Marked by Michael C. Sahd (2017)
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assassin marked

Short Story | Sci-Fi
4 StarsBlurb:

“Damian DuFonte, a professional assassin working for the Crime Syndicate, just can’t seem to get past his need for revenge. So when the only woman he’s ever loved asks him not to kill one of their bosses, her pleas fall on deaf ears. Although Victoria may be willing to forgive this transgression, the Syndicate certainly will not. Continue reading →

Illuminae

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Illuminae (The Illuminae Files_01) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (2015)

Illuminae

YA Fiction | Sci-Fi

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Blurb:

“This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do. This afternoon, her planet was invaded.  Continue reading →

The Circle

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The Circle by Dave Eggers (2013)

the circle

Fiction | Contemporary Sci-Fi | Thriller
4.5 stars
Blurb:

“When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency.  Continue reading →

Red Rising

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Red Rising (Red Rising #1) by Pierce Brown (2014)

red rising

Fiction | Sci-Fi | Dystopia
5 stars
Blurb:

“I live for the dream that my children will be born free,” she says. “That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.”
“I live for you,” I say sadly.
Eo kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.”

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Continue reading →