The Bookshelf: Science-Fiction

Mar 08 2022 34 ep. 633 mins 12
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"The ships hung in the sky, much the way that bricks don't." — Douglas Adams

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ReDawn (Skyward #2.2)

Mar 08 2022 417 mins  
by Brandon Sanderson—From #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the second of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Read Alanik’s story between Starsight and Cytonic.“Don’t trust their lies. Don’t trust their false peace.” That is the warning that Alanik of the planet

Sunreach (Skyward #2.1)

Mar 08 2022 321 mins  
by Brandon Sanderson—From #1 bestselling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes the first of three Skyward series novellas, each told from the perspective of a different member of the team back on Detritus. Read FM's story between Starsight and Cytonic.When a planet-destroying Delver suddenly appears in the sky of Detritus and vanishes just as suddenly, FM knows that

Cytonic (Skyward #3)

Feb 24 2022 795 mins  
by Brandon Sanderson—Spensa’s life as a Defiant Defense Force pilot has been far from ordinary. She proved herself one of the best starfighters in the human enclave of Detritus and she saved her people from extermination at the hands of the Krell—the enigmatic alien species that has been holding them captive for decades. What’s more, she traveled light-years from home as an

Neuromancer (Sprawl #1)

Aug 24 2021 632 mins  
by William Gibson—Hotwired to the leading edges of art and technology, Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace...H

Alive (The Generations Trilogy #1)

Apr 18 2021 370 mins  
Scott Sigler—I open my eyes to darkness. Total darkness. I hear my own breathing, but nothing else. I lift my head…it thumps against something solid and unmoving. There is a board right in front of my face. No, not a board…a lid.A teenage girl awakens to find herself trapped in a coffin. She has no idea who she is, where she is, or how she got there. Fighting her way free bri

The Redemption of Time (Remembrance of Earth's Past #4)

Dec 30 2020 612 mins  
by Baoshu—Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of Time continues Cixin Liu’s multi-award-winning science fiction saga. This original story by Baoshu―published with Liu’s support―envisions the aftermath of the conflict between humanity and the extraterrestrial Trisolarans.In the midst of an interstellar war, Yun T

Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past #3)

Dec 30 2020
by Liu Cixin—Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as eq

The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth's Past #2)

Dec 30 2020 1357 mins  
by Liu Cixin—In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future. The aliens' human collaborators have been defeated but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind r

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past #1)

Dec 29 2020 806 mins  
by Liu Cixin—Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world

The Dispatcher (The Dispatcher #1)

Sep 25 2020 138 mins  
by John Scalzi—One day, not long from now, it becomes almost impossible to murder anyone - 999 times out of a thousand, anyone who is intentionally killed comes back. How? We don't know. But it changes everything: war, crime, daily life.Tony Valdez is a Dispatcher - a licensed, bonded professional whose job is to humanely dispatch those whose circumstances put them in death's cro