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The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
FIC DOW
Told in alternate points of view, Morris, an alien, loves music, and each of his chapters started off with a line from a popular song. Ellie, a human, loves books and wants to be a Librarian, and each of her chapters starts off with a line from a famous book. They quote lyrics and books throughout, and it was fun to recognize or guess at what they were quoting. The first book Morris read was The Hate U Give, and really the premise of the whole book was not really humans vs. aliens, but the state that our country is in now with all the racism and prejudice. Of course they fall for one another and have to save the world in the process.
Science Fiction / Romance
Read this is you liked: The Hate You Give, I Am Number Four, Defy the Stars, The 5th Wave, Darkest Star, Skyhunter
Strange Exit by Parker Peevyhouse
FIC-SCI-FI PEE
Lake is a teen on a failing spaceship. She was taken off of a dying Earth to go to a new, safer planet. All the kids in the ship were put into a sleep simulator until they got to the planet but something went wrong and their stuck in it. No one can get off the ship until all of the passengers are out of the sim, and no one can get out of the sim unless they believe it's a simulation. Lake is trying to get all the kids to wake up, because that’s the only way they can continue forward. It's not often you find a Science Fiction / Mystery, so this should resonate with lovers of both genres.
Science Fiction / Mystery
Read this if you liked: In the After, Tempest, Life as We Knew It, Ship Breaker, A Wrinkle in Time
FIC LU
Talin is part of the elite Striker force, protecting her country, Mara, from an invasion from the Federation. When a Federation solider is captured, Talin risks her reputation to stand up for him because she thinks there is something special about him. And there is - he is an engineered weapon for the Federation to unleash on Mara. Talin and Red - the Skyhunter - form a mental bond. They can hear each other's thoughts and feel each other's feelings. Although they are supposed to be enemies, they join forces to take down the Federation. Talin communicates through sign language, and although we can of course hear (or read) her thoughts, Lu shows how she is sometimes at a disadvantage because of her handicap. She's fierce - she's one of the best soldiers in Mara.
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: Illuminae, Aurora Rising, Soul of Stars, Endgame, Salvage, Avalon, Legend
Girl Gone Viral by Arvin Ahmadi
FIC-SCI-FI AHM
Girl Gone Viral is the story about a group of friends who attend a prestigious technology school. We're living somewhere in the near future where AR & VR are the norm, where kids hang out in the WAVE, a VR spot where they can be anywhere and do anything they want, and Opal has just launched one of the hottest VR shows on the WAVE. Her dad disappeared 7 years ago, a tech giant in his own right, and she's hoping her success on the WAVE will help her find the answers to his disappearance. There's a lot of cool tech, a romance, lies, deception, and the election of an evil president that no one in the tech field is happy about. There's the story of good vs evil, but which is which? Are we fast forwarding toward a society where we have no privacy, where we're online constantly, where we're being tracked and monitored? Is that what we want? Where do we draw the line? All excellent questions that do need to be addressed in our society.
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: The Hive, The Circle, Catfishing on the Net, Warcross
FIC BUT
Dana, a Black woman from the 1970's, is transported back in time to the early 1800's when slavery was still legal in the United States. She is 'called back' by an ancestor, Rufus, because he was in trouble. Dana and Rufus never figure out why this is happening, but Dana goes back and forth in time every time Rufus is in danger and she helps him. Rufus is the White son of a slave owner, with the mentality and prejudices of the time. Although Dana is somewhat safe from Rufus, she's still a Black woman living in the South and is treated as one. Kindred is the first Science Fiction book written by a Black woman.
Science Fiction, Historical Fiction
Read this if you liked: Beloved, Underground Railroad, The Water Dancer, Homegoing
Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
FIC KAU
Aurora was supposed to be on a mission to colonize a new planet, but something happened to her ship. 200 years later, Tyler, the Academy's star pupil, rescues her from cyrosleep from her spaceship. Everyone else is dead. Tyler takes her in and it is immediately evident that she was saved for a reason - the whole galaxy seems to be after her. Tyler's squad gets her to the colony she was supposed to fly to and they discover a being that wants to take over the entire galaxy.
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: A Curse so Dark and Lonely, Spin the Dawn, Illuminae
The Darkest Star by Jennifer Armentrout
FIC ARM
Evie meets Luc one night in a nightclub that is a notorious hangout for the Luxes, aliens who are incredibly beautiful. He is young, gorgeous, and arrogant, and Evie wants nothing to do with him. But when he shows up at her house and her mother pulls a gun in him, Evie starts to uncover the truth about who her parents are, who Luc is, and ultimately who she is. Luc is very protective and very much in love, and Evie wants nothing to do with him. And once she finds out the truth, she doesn't know where here loyalties lie.
Science Fiction, Dystopian
Read this if you liked: Twilight, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, The Lux Series, Strange the Dreamer
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
FIC CLI
In a dystopian future where the world is overpopulated and the economy is crumbling, people escape their problems by living in the virtual reality game world of the OASIS. In the OASIS you can be anything or anyone you want to be. When the creator of this world dies, he leaves behind a quest to find an Easter egg. Whoever finds the egg wins control of the OASIS and the creator's fortune. - Reviewed by Corinne Rasmussen
Genre: Sci Fi, Dystopian
Read this if you liked: Warcross, Ender's Game, The Martian, Armada, Genius, Arena
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Defy the Stars by Claudia Grey
FIC GRE
Noemi is a solider on a suicide mission to save her planet when she comes upon an abandoned enemy ship. When she boards, she finds Abel, an advanced robot who appears human. He has been trapped for 30 years and wants to return to his maker, but when Noemi boards the vessel, he is programmed to obey only her. She enlists him in her plot to overthrow the earth, and they start their journey through the the planets. Over time, she realizes that Abel is developing a soul, is becoming something more than a machine. Abel is discovering feeling within himself he never thought possible, and realizes he wants to be free of his creator.
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: Lunar Chronicles, Illuminae, Empress of a Thousand Skies, The Six, Fever Crumb, Silver Eyes, Frost, Willful
Warcross by Marie Lu
FIC LU
Emika Chen is a bounty hunter and Warcross player. She's a computer wiz and hacks into the opening ceremonies of the Warcross championships and inadvertently becomes one of its key players. Someone is trying to sabotage the game, and Hideo Tanaka, the young billionaire creator of Warcross, hires Emika to try to track him down. She has to spy while in the game in order to try to find out who Zero is and what he's up to. When the plot is uncovered, Emika finds out that Zero has been trying to stop Hideo's plans to control the game and to control people's emotions.
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: Ready Player One, Arena, Eye Of Minds, Defy the Stars, Empress of A Thousands Skies
FIC REI
Every two years, on her birthday, Min is killed but comes back to life. The man in the black suit has been terrorizing her since she was 8 years old, and she doesn't understand why. The same thing has been happening to Noah, and when they discover the same thing has been happening to the two of them, they set out to find out the truth. They discover their Principal, their parents, and their therapists have known about it and have given permission for it, and there is a government conspiracy covering it all up.
Science Fiction, Suspense
Read this if you liked: The Forgetting, Learning to Swear in America, The Program, Maze Runner, Starters
FIC JEN
Kali is a pro Virtual Reality Gamer and she's the first female team captain, poised to win the national championship. But her boyfriend/teammate dies of an overdose and the team is in jeopardy. Her team owner wants to dismiss the fact that he ever existed, and Kali tries to bring the truth to light. Meanwhile, she's falling for his replacement while going through video game addiction withdrawals. All this while training for the championship.
Science Fiction, Dystopian
Read this if you liked: Feed, Guy in Real Life, The Six, The Eye of Minds, Ready Player One, Steelheart
FIC BRO
It’s been ten years since the conclusion of the Zombie War. The disease originated in China and quickly spread through other countries. The sudden uproar from the undead caused great chaos and wildly inaccurate media coverage. As the war against the undead continued, many battles were fought. Some fights were between humans and the undead, but the majority were between the living. After the world adapted to its new way of life, people began to figure out how to beat the undead. ~ Reviewed by Brooke Stellman
Science Fiction, Thriller
Read this if you liked: The Road, Station Eleven, Zone One, Rot and Ruin, Day by Day Armageddon
The Diabolic, #1 by S. J. Kincaid
FIC KIN
Nemesis is a diabolic, bred to protect the human she is bonded to, Sidonia. But when Sidonia is summoned to the capital as a hostage, Nemisis goes in her place and impersonates her. There, she learns quickly about palace and political politics, assassinations, and how even families will kill and manipulate to gain power. She meets Tyrus, the heir to the throne, who wants progress for his people. They form an alliance, and even though she's a Diabolic and not supposed to have feelings, she starts to care for him. There is a massacre, and Nemesis begins to doubt his allegiance to her.
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: Scythe, The Forgetting, Carve the Mark, Red Rising, Throne of Glass
FIC KEN
Yuri, a 17 year old Russian physicist genius, is in the US helping stop a meteor from smashing into California. He's not always taken seriously, and he's a bit socially inept. He meets Dovie, the daughter of hippie parents and a definite free spirit. Yuri likes her and spends time with her doing normal teenage things. He finally finds a friend a realizes there is more to life than science.
Sci Fi, Realistic
Read this if you liked: The Memory Book, Enter Title Here, Eleanor & Park, Delirium
We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
FIC WAL
A meteor is on a collision course with the earth and scientists don't know if it will actually hit. They have 2 months until the possible hit. Told in multiple perspectives, a bunch of teens try to deal with the impending doom. Will everyone come together and hug or will there be fires and looting?
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: Life as You Knew It, The Age of Miracles, Across the Universe, Expiration Day, Unwind, We are the Ants
FIC WHA
After dying at the age of sixteen, Travis' head was removed and frozen for five years before being attached to another body, and now the old Travis and the new must find a way to coexist while figuring out changes in his relationships. - Novelist
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: Man Made Boy, Thanks for the Trouble, Going Bovine, The Taking
FIC LON
Privileged teenager Sid has a proxy, Knox, who receives punishment for Syd's wrong doings, when Syd kills one of his friends in a car crash, it is Knox who is sentenced to death. When the two boys realize they must work together to beat the system they flee looking for answers.
Adventure, Science Fiction, Dystopian
Read this if you liked: Coda, Feed, Legend, I Am Number Four, Legend
Plus One by Elizabeth Fama
FIC FAM
In an alternate United States where Day and Night populations are forced to lead separate--but not equal--lives, a desperate Night girl falls for a seemingly privileged Day boy and places them both in danger as she gets caught up in the beginnings of a resistance movement.
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: Divergent, Ship Breaker, Matched, Crewel, Prodigy, The Testing
Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
FIC WES
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: Uglies, Illuminae, The 5th Wave, Red Rising
FIC Well
Marisa might spend her days in Mirador, but she lives on the net-going to school, playing games, hanging out, or doing things of more questionable legality with her friends Sahara and Anja. And it's Anja who first gets her hands on Bluescreen-a virtual drug that plugs right into a person's djinni and delivers a massive, nonchemical, completely safe high. But Mari and her friends soon find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy that is much bigger than they ever suspected"--Amazon.com.
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: Feed, Legend, Eye of Minds, Unwind
After the Red Rain by Barry Lyga, Peter Facinelli, Robert DeFranco
FIC LYG
In the distant future, on the ruined planet Earth, Deedra lives a hard life working and barely getting by. But one day she comes across a beautiful boy named Rose who has a secretive past and special abilities, but who has a much different outlook than anyone Deedra knows. They are drawn to each other and fall in love. They discover there are people who are trying to destroy their already bleak existence, and fight together to save what they have
Science Fiction, Dystopian, Romance
Read it if you liked Prodigy, Hunger Games, Shipbreaker, The Giver
FIC WES
Told from separate viewpoints, a group of teens have superhuman abilities. They don't have total control, and try to help each other figure out what they can and should do. They try to work together to respond to a high stake crisis in their town.
Science Fiction, Action, Adventure
Read it if you like: X-Men, Maximum Ride, Steelheart, Hero, Rot & Ruin
FIC WEI
An edge-of-your seat thriller with laugh-out-loud dialogue mixed in. After a bad storm cuts his team’s Mars mission short, injured astronaut Mark Watley is stranded. Now he’s got to figure out how to survive without air, shelter, food, or water on the harsh Martian landscape until the next manned mission in four years. It’s Science Fiction with a capital S, but Weir does a fabulous job of making it accessible to non-science geeks (like me). -- Dan Brooks for LibraryReads.
Science Fiction, Suspense
Read this if you liked: Ender's Game, The 5th Wave, The Revenant
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
FIC MAN
An actor playing King Lear dies onstage just before a cataclysmic event changes the future of everyone on Earth. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. When they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed.
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: The Year of the Flood, The Dog Stars, The Gracekeepers, The Bone Clocks
More Than This by Patrick Ness
FIC NES
Seth kills himself and wakes up in what can only be hell. It's the neighborhood he grew up in, where a horrible tragedy occurred that he blames himself for. He's all alone, it appears that it's deserted. But he finds two other kids, and they save him from 'The Driver'. Is he the devil? Why is he trying to kill them? He finds out the truth about his 'death' and what's happened to the world. Seth learns to trust and figures out that everyone has issues, and everyone is trying to get through life the best they can.
Sci Fi, LGBTQ
Read this is you liked: The Ghosts of Heaven, The MARTians
The Here and Now by Ann Brashares
FIC BRA
Time traveler Prenna comes from a dark and dismal future filled with disease, lack of food, and no hope. She can't mingle with the 'time natives', but she feels drawn to Ethan. Together, they try to change the future as well as the present.
Science Fiction
Read this if you liked: Tempest, All Our Yesterdays, This World We Live In
FIC YAN
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Cassie, a survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her younger brother with only the help of a boy who may be one of them.
Dystopian, Sci Fi, Adventure
Read this if you liked: All Our Yesterdays, Scan, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Game, Across the Universe
FIC AND
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Dystopian, Sci Fi
Read this if you liked: Proxy, Icons, Blue Screen, iBoy
FIC SHU
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives. - Novelist
Science Fiction, Dystopian
Read this if you liked: The Adoration of Jenna Fox, The MARTians, Everlost, Feed, The 5th Wave
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