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61) Join the future
Author
Publisher
AfterShock Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Future. Ultra-modern megacities reward millions of their citizens with a completely funded life, with every need met, from food to housing and healthcare, in order to compete in an economic power struggle in which population is key. But a few rural residents still cling to their independence in what last American small towns are left. When a nearby megacity pressures the people of a small town to join up or else, a young teenage girl named...
Publisher
MITeen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"What does the future hold? Ten speculative short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world could be through the lens of technologies emerging today. When the modification industry transforms how humans look, sound, and interact, a nonbinary teen braves the 'reinvention room' to accept a gift from the dead. In an accidental city in space, a young apprentice holds neighborhoods together with braided carbon filaments until distraction...
63) Doing time
Author
Series
Time Police ; 1
Publisher
Headline
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"At some time in the future, the secret of time-travel became available to all. Chaos ensued as people sought to take advantage. Because there will always be nutters who want to change history... And so the Time Police were formed. Internationally sanctioned thugs whose task it was to keep the timeline straight by any and all means possible. And they succeeded. The Time Wars are over. The Time Police won. But who will win the peace? Doing Time follows...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene, and an urgent search for fossils--industrial,...
Author
Publisher
Nova
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Cixin Liu nos lleva a través del tiempo y el espacio: desde una comunidad rural de montaña en 'The Village Teacher', donde los estudiantes de primaria deben usar la física para evitar una invasión alienígena; a las minas de carbón del norte de China en 'Fuego en la Tierra', donde la nueva tecnología salvará vidas o desencadenará un fuego que arderá durante siglos; a un tiempo muy parecido al nuestro, en la historia 'Mirror', cuando las...
68) The swimmers
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"After the ravages of the Green Winter, Earth is a place of deep jungles and monstrous animals. The last of the human race is divided into surface dwellers and the people who live in the Upper Settlement, a ring perched at the edge of the Earth's atmosphere.Bearing witness to this divided planet is Pearl, a young techie with a thread of shuvani blood, who lives in the isolated forests of Gobari, navigating her mad mother and the strange blue light...
69) Dragon City
Author
Series
Dragon realm ; 3
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Billy Chan and his friends have been transported 5,000 years into the future where the evil Dragon of Death has become ruler of Dragon City. Humans now live to serve the dragon population, and it's no different for Billy, Charlotte, Dylan, and Ling-Fei. After losing contact with their own dragons, they're determined to track them down in this new city, even if it means putting their own lives at risk. But one dragon has turned to the dark side and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Martha Einkorn fled her father's isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find herself working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything. Now, she's surrounded by mega-rich companies designing private weather, predictive analytics, and covert weaponry, while spouting technological prophecy. Martha may have left the cult, but if the apocalyptic warnings in her fathers fox and rabbit sermononce a parable to...
71) Root and branch
Author
Publisher
PF Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"ROOT AND BRANCH is a realistic thriller set in a near-future America set where an Islamist-inspired intifada triggers emergency security measures that go terribly wrong. Roger Zorn, owner of a French security company, is delighted at having won a major contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The contract is part of a program of emergency measures launched when Washington's military response to sneak attacks by Iran Pakistan...
72) Now & when
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
To the shock of high school student Skyler Finch, her romantic future, as revealed by a mysterious website, lies with the arrogant and annoying Truman Alexander.--
There's a lot of things about Truman Alexander that Skyler Finch finds incredibly annoying. She does her best to avoid him and focus on the important stuff: friends, school, and her boyfriend, Eli. His promposal was perfect and the future is looking bright. Or is it? When Skylar's phone...
73) Imagined worlds
Author
Series
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Chapters have such headings as: Stories, Science, Technology, Evolution, and Ethics.
74) Paris 2119
Author
Publisher
Magnetic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the year 2119, instantaneous transportation technology has altered almost every facet of human civilization, improving countless industries and practices while also leaving behind a growing population who can't afford to keep up. But some people still prefer the traditional ways of getting from point A to point B, including Tristan Keys, a writer who refuses to embrace the technological advances everyone finds so mandatory. When tiny cracks start...
76) The metabolist imagination: visions of the city in postwar Japanese architecture and science fiction
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This manuscript examines the relationship between architecture, urban design, and science fiction in postwar Japan, focusing on Metabolism, an avant-garde architectural movement formed in 1960 and influenced by the science fiction of Komatsu Sakyô, who collaborated with Metabolist architects during the 1970 World Expo in Osaka. By envisioning both utopian and apocalyptic (sci-fi) futures, Metabolist architects imagined large-scale megastructures...
77) The future
Author
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The Future is a beautifully designed reader all about how futurists imagine we might live, with exciting new technology changing travel, fun, houses, and cities"--
78) Hello, future me
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Soon-to-be twelve-year-old June is a planner and a problem-solver, and right now she and her friend Calvin are planning a big welcome home celebration for her mother, only her plan falls apart when she finds out that her parents are getting a divorce; June is convinced that she can find some way to get her parents back together--until she starts getting messages on her "new" laptop (refurbished by a mysterious store called The Shop of Last Resort),...
79) Escaping Eleven
Author
Series
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Four generations ago, the Earth was rendered uninhabitable and those who remained were forced underground. In Compound Eleven, the hierarachy of floors is everything and on Eve Hamilton's floor, they fight. When she meets a boy from the top floor, Eve is no longer content to just survive, she is ready to fight for freedom.
80) Cloudlanders
Author
Publisher
Kelpies
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An island of magic and mayhem floating above the flooded Earth, Bastion has long been the last country left in the world. Then one day best friends Kurt (an eight-foot mushroom with a fear of heights) and Flicker (a tiny, tough-talking gemstone faerie) stand on the edge of the land and see the impossible: a plane from nowhere is heading straight for them. Kurt and Flicker join forces with a brave gang of misfits -- including wood-nymph twins (one...