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What is Science Fiction?
Science Fiction is based on scientific fact, set most often in the future, and deals with the impact of technology and science on humans, humanoids, or other creatures.
Literature and the Child, 2nd edition, by Bernice E. Cullinan
Animorphs, by K.A. Applegate
Ames, MILDRED ANNA TO THE INFINITE POWER
The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
FANTASTIC VOYAGE by Isaac Asimov
SHAPE CHANGER by Brittain
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
TOMORROWLAND: STORIES ABOUT THE FUTURE compiled by Michael Cart
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS by John Christopher
The harrowing escape of a young boy from a futuristically mechanized tyranny
is compellingly described. First book of the author's trilogy about the Tripods,
of which The City Of Gold And Lead, and The Pool of Fire form
the second and third books respectively.
Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton
Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton
2001 : a Space Odyssey by Arthur Charles Clarke
Farmer, Nancy; THE EAR, THE EYE AND THE ARM
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Among the Impostors by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Raider’s Sky by Haynes
Dune by Frank Herbert
RETURN TO EARTH by H. M. Hoover
ORVIS by H. M. Hoover
THIS TIME OF DARKNES by H. M. Hoover
SHEPARD MOON by H. M. Hoover
This is a tale of Earth's future. Teenager Merry, encounters a teen from an
earth satellite that has crashed near her homestead.
Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse
TALE OF TIME CITY by Diana Wynn Jones
Klause, Annette; ALIEN SECRETS
Star Split by Kathryn Lasky
NICK OF TIME by Lindbergh
The Giver by Lowis Lowry
Gathering Blue by Lowis Lowry
A WRINKLE IN TIME by Madeline L’Engle
A trio of whimsical characters, intent on helping Meg find her father, take
her, her brother, and a friend on an interplanetary voyage to a distant planet
where an omnipotent brain has robotized everyone. 1963 Newbery Award.
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
Lost in CyberSpace by Richard Peck
The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Roberts
The Duplicate/Sleator
House of Stairs/ Sleator
STRANGE ATTRACTORS/ Sleator
INTERSTELLAR PIG by William Sleator
Barney's boring seaside vacation suddenly becomes more interesting when the
cottage next door is occupied by three exotic neighbors who are addicted to
a doomsday game.
STINKER FROM SPACE by Pamela Service
An agent of the Sylon Confederacy who is fleeing from enemy ships, crash lands
on Earth, transfers his mind to the body of a skunk, and enlists the aid of
two children in getting back to his home planet.
UNDER ALIEN STARS by Pamela Service
Virtual War by Gloria Skurzynski
Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
Space Race by Sylvia Waugh
THE TIME MACHINE by H. G. Wells
A man who creates a machine capable of time-travel, visits the future, but does
not find the paradise he imagined.
2041: Selected Short Stories / Yolen
NBW updated 11.2001
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