Science Fiction
Books that have to do with futuristic technology and often space or time travel.
The Abyss Surrounds Us
By: Emily Skrustkie
YAPB Skrutskie
Cassandra Leung– a seventeen-year-old trainer of Reckoners, sea beasts bred to defend ships — is kidnapped by the pirate queen Santa Elena and ordered to train a Reckoner pup to defend Santa Elena’s ship.
Burning Midnight
By: Will McIntosh
YAPB McIntosh
No one know where the brilliant colored spheres came from. One day they were just there, hidden all over the earth like huge gemstones. Burn a pair and they make you a little better: an inch taller, skilled at math, better-looking. Sully is a sphere dealer at a flea market. It doesn’t pay much– Alex Holliday’s stores have muscled out most of the independent sellers– but it helps him and his mom make the rent. When Sully meets Hunter, a girl with a natural talent for finding spheres, the two start searching together. One day they find a Gold — a color no one has ever seen. There’s no question the Gold is priceless, but what does it actually do? None of them is aware of it yet but the fate of the world rests of this little golden orb.
Carve the Mark
By: Veronica Roth
YAF Roth
Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others’ control before the become unlikely survival partners.
Cinder
By: Marissa Meyer
YAF Meyer
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with a handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
Defy the Stars
By: Claudia Gray
YAF Gray
Teenage soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.
The Diabolic
By: S.J. Kincaid
YAF Kincaid
Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager and the galaxy’s most deadly weapon, who masquerades as Sidonia, a senator’s daughter, and becomes a hostage of the galactic court.
The Forgetting
By: Sharon Cameron
YAF Cameron
Canaan is a quite city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives–but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.
Genius: the Game
By: Leopoldo Gout
YAPB Gout
“Three underprivileged young prodigies from across the world with incredible skills in technology and engineering team to become the heroes the world never knew they could be” — Provided by publisher.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
By: Douglas Adams
YAF Adams
Chronicles the journeys, notions, and acquaintances of reluctant galactic traveler Arthur Dent.
Honor Among Thieves
By: Rachel Caine and Ann Aguirre
YAF Caine
Petty criminal Zara Cole is recruited into the Honors, an elite team of humans chosen by the Leviathan to explore the outer reaches of the universe.
Illuminae
By: Amie Kaufman
YAF Kaufman
‘The planet Kerenza is attacked and Kady and Ezra find themselves on a space fleet fleeing the enemy, while their ship’s artificial intelligence system and a deadly plague may be the end of them all” — Provided by publisher.
Landscape with Invisible Hand
By: M.T. Anderson
YAF Anderson
When jobs typically done by humans are replaced with alien technology, Adam’s parents have no money for food, clean water, or medicine, forcing Adam and his girlfriend Chloe to get creative.
Learning to Swear in America
By: Katie Kennedy
YAF Kennedy
Brought over from Russia to help NASA prevent an asteroid from colliding with the Earth, seventeen-year-old physics genius Yuri feels awkward and alone until he meets free-spirited Dovie.
Mars One
By: Jonathan Maberry
YAF Maberry
“A teenage boy leaves for Mars as a colonist with the Mars One space program and grapples with what he’s leaving behind to do so”– Provided by the publisher.
This Mortal Coil
By: Emily Suvada
YAF Suvada
“In a world where people are implanted with technology to re code their DNA, gene-hacking genius Cat must decrypt her late father’s message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague” — Provided by publisher.
Otherworld
By: Jason Segel
YAF Segel
‘”After the newest set of virtual reality gear hits the market, Simon can’t wait to test it out. But, when his friend Katherine suddenly disappears after being seen with men from the same gaming company, Simon must decide how far in the game he’s willing to go to save her” — Provided by publisher.
Perfect
By; Cecelia Ahern
YAF Ahern
Since Celestine, eighteen, was declared a public menace, she has bee on the run with Carrick, the one person she can trust, but she has a secret that may save all of those branded Flawed. (Sequel to Flawed)
Steelheart
by: Brandon Sanderson
YAPB Sanderson
At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human with superhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners – the only people who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny.
Railhead
By: Philip Reeve
YAPB Reeve
In a world of drones and androids Zen Starling is a human thief, but mostly he just likes to ride the Interstellar Express, the sentient trains that travel through the K gates from planet to planet, something only the Guardians understand – but now the mysterious Raven wants him to steal the Pyxis, an object that could either open up a new gate, challenging the Guardians, or put the entire gate system, and the universe itself in danger.
Reboot
By: Amy Tintera
YAF Tintera
“Seventeen-year-old Wren rises from the dead as a Reboot and is trained as an elite crime-fighting soldier until she is given and order she refuses to follow” — Provided by publisher.
Replica
By: Lauren Oliver
YAF Oliver
Two novels which can be read separately or in alternating chapters. In Lyra, two experimental subjects escape from the Haven Institute, where human replicas are created and observed. In Gemma, a lonely, often-ill teenager discovers her father’s connection to the Haven Institute and travels there, meeting the escaped replicas.
Unearthed
By: Amie Kaufman
YAF Kaufman
Scholar Jules Addison and scavenger Amelia Radcliffe join forces to unravel secrets of a long-extinct civilization, only to discover something that could spell the end of the human race.
Willful Machines
By: Tim Floreen
YAF Floreen
In a near-future America, a sentient computer program named Charlotte has turned terrorist, but Lee Fisher, the closeted son of an ultraconservative President, is more concerned with keeping his Secret Service detail from finding out about his developing romance with Nico, the new guy at school, but when the spider-like robots that roam the school halls begin acting even stranger than usual, Lee realizes he is Charlotte’s next target.