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If you're in the mood for some mind-bending sci-fi stories, check out these new additions to Peter White Public Library's Adult Sci-fi & Fantasy Collection.
Book descriptions are adapted from publisher and library catalog materials.
"Massif" by Garth Nix (SCI-FI NIX). For more than two hundred years, humans have been hitching rides on sentient, starfaring mountain ranges, colonizing planets and participating in an on-and-off again war between Earth and Mars. Ride a Massif to a new system, fight the enemy, repeat. Currently embroiled in an eighteen-year conflict with Mars and Beyond Prosperity Sphere, United Earth Government Navy Ship Leader Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the corvette Sassafras begin to question the motives of the Massifs. Why do they carry humans to the stars? Why do they help us export our Wars? Parnell and his crew must try and find the answers, to save not only themselves but the future of humanity.
"The Language of Liars" by S.L. Huang (SCI-FI HUANG). The Orro's homeworld is dying. Its only hope for continued survival is to study the Star Eaters, the only species capable of mining the element that powers interstellar travel. After Linguist-in-training Ro successfully Jumps into the mind of a Star Eater, living and working among them, he finds himself struggling with the ethics of his mission. Clocking in at one hundred fifty-five pages, this small book packs a big punch. Themes include linguistics, lost civilizations, culture, espionage, friendship, consequences and mind transfer.
"The Subtle Art of Folding Space" by John Chu (SCI-FI CHU). An exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum. Ellie is a builder, tasked with maintaining the skunkworks- the machinery that keeps the physics of each universe working the way it’s supposed to. When an illicit device is found in the skunkworks that is destabilizing the universe, but keeping her Mother alive, Ellie must decide choose between her family and the universe itself. This isn’t your usual jaunt through quantum physics!
"The Felicity Complex" by August Clarke (SCI-FI CLARKE). What happens when a theme park tycoon teams up with a (formerly) CIA-contracted fringe bioengineer to create the perfect chambermaid? Six women bioengineered to serve in a luxury fallout shelter question their purpose when they meet their "masters" and defy their programming. A sendup of traditional womanhood, this book questions the ambitions behind the entitled few who plan for the end times and who truly survives them. A blend of Cold War Era sci-fi, alternative universe satire, and good old-fashioned body horror, The Felicity Complex is not for the squeamish.
Allie Flynn Chapman is the Local History Research Room Assistant at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette.