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1) Foundation
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Foundation series volume 3
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult
FIC SF ASIMOV 1951
2 available
FIC SF ASIMOV 1951
2 available
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1 copy, 2 people are on the wait list.
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For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future -- to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire -- both scientists and scholars -- and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy...
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult
FIC SF BACIGA 2009
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FIC SF BACIGA 2009
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What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when this forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? This is a tale of Bangkok struggling for survival in a post-oil era of rising sea levels and out-of-control mutation.
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In the wake of a devastating plague, two communities emerge as bastions of survival. One is called the City, and its people scrabble for scraps in the wasteland. The other, New Charity, enjoys the bounty of its hydroelectric dam and refuses City denizens so much as a drop of precious water. When City-dweller Cressyda inherits her fathers ranch within New Charity, she becomes intent on opening the dam to allno matter the cost. But when Syd...
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Forever series (Joe W. Haldeman) volume 2
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult
FIC SF HALDEM 1997
1 available
FIC SF HALDEM 1997
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Popular Library - Book on CD
FIC
1 available
FIC
1 available
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"A time-traveling serial killer is impossible to trace-- until one of his victims survives. In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential. He stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back. Working with an...
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Orcutt Library - Adult
FIC SF
1 available
FIC SF
1 available
Santa Maria Public Library - Adult
FIC SF BOYLE 2016
1 available
FIC SF BOYLE 2016
1 available
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"...Told through three distinct narrators?Dawn Chapman, the mission?s pretty, young ecologist; Linda Ryu, her bitter, scheming best friend passed over for E2; and Ramsay Roothorp, E2?s sexually irrepressible Wildman?The Terranauts brings to life an electrifying, pressured world in which connected lives are uncontrollably pushed to the breaking point. With characteristic humor and acerbic wit, T.C. Boyle indelibly inhabits the perspectives of the various...
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC BUTLER 2005
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FIC BUTLER 2005
1 available
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Fledgling, Octavia Butler's last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.
8) ready player one
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9) eifelheim
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10) Dune
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Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 1
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19 copies, 54 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 33 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 24 people are on the wait list.
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"Science fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called "the spice." After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and...
12) Never let me go
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1 copy, 4 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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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC LEE 2014
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FIC LEE 2014
1 available
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"From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing interests in identity, culture, work, and love, and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work, Lee...
15) New York 2140
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"A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312, and Aurora. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. Through the eyes of the varied inhabitants of one building Kim Stanley...
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC SHTEYN 2010
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FIC SHTEYN 2010
1 available
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A dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years, and of the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink.
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult
FIC SF STEPHE 2015
1 available
FIC SF STEPHE 2015
1 available
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Five thousand years later after a catastrophic event rendered the Earth a ticking time bomb, the progeny of a handful of outer space explorers--seven distinct races now three billion strong--embark on yet another audacious journey: to return to Earth.
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Cuyama Valley Library - Adult
FIC SF WEIR 2011
1 available
FIC SF WEIR 2011
1 available
Guadalupe Library - Adult
FIC SF
1 available
FIC SF
1 available
Orcutt Library - Adult
FIC SF
1 available
FIC SF
1 available
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Santa Maria Public Library - Book Club
Book Club Set
1 available
Book Club Set
1 available
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"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
19) Alif the unseen
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In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients, dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups, from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble.
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Santa Maria Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC JAMES 1992
1 available
FIC JAMES 1992
1 available
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A modern science fiction classic from an acclaimed bestselling author: The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction.
"A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." —Chicago Tribune
Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future,...
"A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." —Chicago Tribune
Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future,...