science fiction

In Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil machinations of the Clockwork Guild.

In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue, " Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

Contains Asimov's first original collection of science fiction stories, and previously uncollected writings about the craft of science fiction, and essays about science fiction itself.

Romy Silvers and her parents left Earth on the spaceship "Infinity" 6,817 days ago. In that time, Romy's parents died in a tragedy, and now she is utterly alone save for brief messages from her therapist transmitted from Earth. Then, NASA sends word that "The Eternity" will be joining "The Infinity" soon. Excited, Romy begins exchanging messages with J, the new ship's commander. But, as she uncovers more about J's mysterious mission, she will learn that sometimes, being alone is not the worst thing in the universe.

In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.

Contains a novelization of the film "Alita: Battle Angel." When an advanced artificial intelligence wakes in a dystopic world she doesn't recognize she is taken in by a compassionate doctor and prosthetist, Ido, who treats her as a daughter. She quickly realizes that her knowledge and power allow her to navigate the dangerous streets of Iron City, while also learning about her convoluted past. Alita is thrust into a conspiracy, and with the help of Ido and other select allies, Alita discovers her true purpose and fights against injustice.

Provides twenty-five speculative fiction short stories that address a future America, be it utopian or dystopian. Each of the twenty-five writers were given a directive: to present "narratives that would challenge oppressive American myths, release us from the chokehold of our history, and give us new futures to believe in.".

Renegades are prodigies with extraordinary abilities who've established peace in the city. But Nova hates the Renegades for what happened to her family ten years earlier, and now, at sixteen-years-old, Nova befriends a Renegade boy named Adrian with the intention of infiltrating the Renegades and exacting her revenge.

In a small college town in Southern California, a first-year student falls asleep and never wakes up, leaving her roommate Mei, then paramedics, then perplexed doctors at the hospital at a loss. Then, Mei notices others falling asleep, and she and an eccentric classmate are thrust together in the midst of the panic taking hold of their college and town--then, doctors inform them that those afflicted by this mysterious illness show higher levels of brain activity than ever before recorded. They all of them are dreaming of something, and what they are dreaming may hold the key to the cure.

A group of individuals from different walks of life band together to bring positive changes to a world that is threatened by pollution, famine, and recession.