Leisure Reading Suggestions: Science Fiction

Features of this genre: Science fiction is a facet of fiction is typically set in fantastic worlds and futuristic settings. These stories often include elements of science, technology, space travel, time travel, parallel universes, and alien life forms. They may explore the potential consequences of scientific innovations as well as politics, identity, desire, morality and social order. While it is typically based in science, the laws and theories governing these stories may be only partly true. These stories are split up into subgenre including: cross-genre, first contact, hard science fic- tion, near future, slipstream, space opera, and time travel.

Classic Contemporary Edgar Rice Burroughs PS3503 .U687 & ebook Arthur C. Clarke PR6005 .L36 A Princess of Mars & The Gods of Mars 2001; a Space Odyssey, 2010: Odyssey 2, Frank Herbert PS3558 .E63 Rendezvous with Rama

Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Children of Dune, Douglas Adams PR6051 .D3352 Dune Messiah The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Life, the H.G. Wells PR5774 .W3 (JUV)PZ7 .W4647 Universe, and Everything The Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Gregory Benford PS3552 .E542 Invisible Man, The Invasion from Mars Heart of the Comet, Threads of Time Isaac Asimov PS3551 .S5 Orson Scott Card PS3553 .A655 The Bicentennial Man, The Ugly Little Boy, Prelude to Foundation Ender's Game Jules Verne PQ2469 .F76 (JUV) PZ7 .O515 & & ebook Philip K. Dick PS3554 .I3 & ebook From the Earth to the Moon, Amazing Journeys, Martian Time-Slip, Blade Runner, Do Androids Journey to the Center of the Earth Dream of Electric Sleep, Beyond the Wub Ray Bradbury PS3503 .R167 Robert Heinlein PS3515 .E288 The Toynbee Convector, The Veldt, The Other Stranger in a Strange Land, Glory Road, Friday, Foot, I Sing the Body Electric Have Spacesuit Will Travel

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 The Hugo Awards, presented annually since 1955, are science fiction’s most prestigious award. The finalists for 2014 can be found at http://www.loncon3.org/2014hugos.php.

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