If you've been inspired by this summer's latest Star Trek movie, the Peter White Public Library has lots of new science fiction titles that can offer you hours of summertime reading pleasure.

"Into The Storm," the first book of the Destroyermen trilogy, is an imaginative debut novel written by Taylor Anderson. Soon after Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick heads his ship into a squall, it becomes clear the crewmen of the USS Walker have left behind the Pacific Theatre of WWII and entered an alternate reality. The seas around their ship teem with monstrous fish and herds of dinosaurs graze on the plains of Bali, and everything is at war.

"The Ashes of Worlds," by the New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson, is the seventh and final installment of the Saga of Seven Suns series; a series that has been named as one of the most spectacular science fiction epics of the past decade. This book contains all the romance, action, and aliens a science fiction fan could want.

"This is Not a Game," by Walter Jon Williams, mixes world wide gaming, high finance and murder in an intriguing Sci-Fi thriller. The story begins as Dagmar, a game designer, finds herself trapped in Jakarta with riots raging in the streets and buildings burning all around her hotel. When rescue proves unlikely through conventional means, Dagmar appeals to a vast network of millions of gamers to find solutions for her escape. They respond in spades and are there to help when two of Dagmar's college gaming friends are killed and it appears that she is next in line.

"Steal Across The Sky," by author Nancy Kress, tells the story of a handful of human volunteers who have been chosen by an Alien race called the Atoners to observe the results of a crime the Atoners committed against humans ten thousand years earlier. From their travels across the universe the witnesses bring back knowledge that will change the course of civilization forever.

"Marsbound," by author Joe Haldeman, tells the story of Carmen Dula and her family who emigrate to Mars. Carmen seems to be adapting well to life on the Red Planet, until one night when she ventures outside alone and an accident brings her to the point of death. Luckily, she is saved by an angel-"an angel with too many arms and legs and a head that looks like a potato gone bad". Carmen's angel has an urgent message for the colonists: "We were here first."

"All the Windwracked Stars," by Hugo-winning author Elizabeth Bear tells the story of Muire, who is the last of the Valkyrie, and her Valraven, a many-formed, winged steed, who chose Muire as his rider in the destruction following of the Last Battle of the Children of Light. Together these two have come to the city of Valdyrgard in the last days of civilization where Muire is surprised to find something she didn't expect to see again - traces of another Child of the Light.

"The Temporal Void," by Peter F. Hamilton, is the second book in Hamilton's Commonwealth saga which began with the book, The Dreaming Void. Long ago Inigo, an astrophysicist, began dreaming about a human named Edeard who once lived in a self-contained microuniverse at the center of the galaxy. Edeard was an extremely gifted psychic who was determined to bring about freedom and justice to a world where criminal violence and corruption ruled. Based on Inigo's dreams, a new religion has formed called the "Living Dream". Complications arise when a second dreamer appears who seems to trigger the expansion of the Void. Interstellar war seems evitable when a small group makes plans to travel on a pilgrimage into the Void.

- By Lisa Shirtz, Youth

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