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Have You Heard About... Ender’s Game

Submitted by Fran J on Thu, 02/21/2013 - 2:47am

… the future of Earth, when children are trained as vicious soldiers?

Have You Heard About... Leviathan

Submitted by Fran J on Thu, 06/21/2012 - 1:15am

… the living airships of World War I? The audiobook Leviathan* is a fantastic example of steampunk fiction done right. Scott Westerfeld adds mechanical robots and whale airships to World War I which makes it a hundred times more exciting.

Have You Heard About... Manga Man

Submitted by Fran J on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 2:53am

…the funny-looking high school student?

Have You Heard About... Old Man’s War

Submitted by Fran J on Thu, 12/29/2011 - 2:30am

… the military retirement plan? At age seventy-five, you can join the army and go to war in outer space. That’s the basic premise of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War*. Despite the vast reaches of space, habitable planets are few and far between, so competition for them is fierce, and mankind must fight to defend Earth and find our own space to colonize.

Have You Heard About... Partners in Necessity

Submitted by Fran J on Thu, 11/03/2011 - 1:32am

… the Liaden universe and Clan Korval? Sharon Lee and Steve Miller’s Partners in Necessity* tells the stories of two couples who meet and fall in love.

Have You Heard About... Ghost in Trouble

Submitted by Fran J on Tue, 07/05/2011 - 1:36am

… the ghost who solves mysteries? A ghost’s work is never done in Ghost in Trouble* by Carolyn Hart.

Have You Heard About... Feed

Submitted by Fran J on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 1:29am

… the zombie outbreak of 2014? Mira Grant’s* Feed** shows us what the world is like twenty-five years after the initial outbreak. Humans have survived, but so have zombies. People live with the knowledge that when they die, they will become zombies. Any person who is bitten by a zombie or come into contact with its blood will become a zombie.

Have You Heard About... The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Submitted by Pam S on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 1:00am

… the hit DVD, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice? This movie is classified as Sci Fi, but it’s definitely for the whole family.

Have You Heard About... Blameless

Submitted by Fran J on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 1:00am

… the humorous steampunk Victorian romance with vampires and werewolves? Gail Carriger’s Blameless* picks up shortly after the end of Changeless, with both Lord and Lady Maccon dealing with the fallout of Alexia’s announcement. (I won’t leave any spoilers here, because this series is definitely better when read in order!) Our heroine’s situation is made