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1) Frankenstein
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Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
808.838 Sh441
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808.838 Sh441
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Junior Fiction - North Wing Top Floor
J Shelley
1 available
J Shelley
1 available
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Audiobook - North Wing Basement
[SF] Shelley
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[SF] Shelley
2 available
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Book Group Set - South Wing Main Floor (Ask at Reference Desk)
BG Shelley
12 available
BG Shelley
12 available
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22 copies, 30 people are on the wait list.
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A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
2) Immobility
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Adult Fiction - South Wing Basement
[SF] Evenson
2 available
[SF] Evenson
2 available
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A post-apocalyptic thriller follows the experiences of a man who wakes up paralyzed with no memory of his life and who is urged by people who say they know him to reclaim a critical object and return to a frozen state before time runs out.
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Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is a pivotal work in which Poe calls attention to the act of writing and to the problem of representing the truth. It is an archetypal American story of escape from domesticity tracing a young man's rite of passage through a series of terrible brushes with death during a fateful sea voyage. Included are eight related tales which further illuminate Pym by their treatment...
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Adult Fiction - South Wing Basement
[SF] Verne
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[SF] Verne
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Teen Fiction - South Wing Basement
T Verne
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T Verne
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The intrepid Professor Liedenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth's very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the geologist--together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans--discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Verne's imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction...
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6 copies, 9 people are on the wait list.
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When an unidentified "monster" threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the "monster" is actually a futuristic...
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5 copies, 14 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
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1 copy, 14 people are on the wait list.
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Told through a central character, Alex, the disturbing novel creates an alarming futuristic vision of violence, high technology, and authoritarianism. A modern classic of youthful violence and social redemption set in a dismal dystopia whereby a juvenile delinquent undergoes state-sponsored psychological rehabilitation for his aberrant behavior. Includes the controversial final chapter deleted from the first American edition and Burgess's introduction...
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The latest test subject in a covert government experiment, abandoned six-year-old Amy is rescued by an FBI agent who hides them in the Oregon hills, from which Amy emerges a century later to save the human race from a terrifying virus.
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Presents a collection of horror stories, combining scientific knowledge with an imaginative perception of the human mind.
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A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters.
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Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award for 1990. Now, collected for the first time, are all seven of this extraordinary writer's extraordinary stories--plus a new story written especially for this volume.
11) Brave new world
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Adult Fiction - Display (Fiction)
[SF] Huxley
1 available
[SF] Huxley
1 available
Adult Fiction - South Wing Basement
[SF] Huxley
1 available
[SF] Huxley
1 available
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23 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
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Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom.
12) Snow crash
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5 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 8 people are on the wait list.
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In the future the only relief from the sea of logos is the computer-generated universe of virtual reality? But now a strange computer virus, called Snow Crash, is striking down hackers, leaving an unlikely young man as humankind's last hope.
13) Ready player one
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96 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.
14) Riddley Walker
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Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state--and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture--rebel, change agent, and artist.
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A masterful achievement that ranks with Brave New World and 1984, this mesmerizing tale of the terrible aftermath of nuclear war has captivated generations of readers since its first publication in 1959.
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1855: The Industrial Revolution is in full and inexorable swing, powered by steam-driven cybernetic Engines. Charles Babbage perfects his Analytical Engine and the computer age arrives a century ahead of its time. And three extraordinary characters race toward a rendezvous with history - and the future: Sybil Gerard - dishonored woman and daughter of a Luddite agitator; Edward "Leviathan" Mallory - explorer and paleontologist; Laurence Oliphant -...
17) Fahrenheit 451
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Adult Fiction - South Wing Basement
[SF] Bradbury
1 available
[SF] Bradbury
1 available
Adult Nonfiction - South Wing Main Floor
460.83 Bradbury
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460.83 Bradbury
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Audiobook - North Wing Basement
[SF] Bradbury
3 available
[SF] Bradbury
3 available
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28 copies, 46 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 91 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 91 people are on the wait list.
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Audiobook - North Wing Basement
PLAYAWAY [SF] Bradbury
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PLAYAWAY [SF] Bradbury
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Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television 'family'. But...
18) Never let me go
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8 copies, 80 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 25 people are on the wait list.
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants...
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New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and The Children Act Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging...
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Audiobook - North Wing Basement
[SF] Matheson
1 available
[SF] Matheson
1 available
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3 copies, 19 people are on the wait list.
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The basis for the film starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith, I Am Legend is a classic of horror and suspense.
In I Am Legend, a terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into bloodthirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is
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