Anyone, by Melissa Conway

Description
Like many refugees who fled their homes during the Cataclysm, Tainie Strauss is starting over. No friends, no money, new school--a tough combination for any sixteen-year-old, much less an awkward, unattractive girl whose mother believes in fairies. Tainie is pragmatic about her life until she starts imagining she can read people’s minds. The day her face temporarily changes shape seemingly of its own volition, she can only conclude she’s gone crazy. But her mother has a different theory: during a ceremony to stop the Cataclysm, Tainie was exposed to a secret catalyst that can turn an ordinary descendant of the Folk into a shapeshifter.

For the first time in her miserable life, Tainie can be someone else--anyone else. Soon her beautiful alter-ego Tory is attracting the attention of one of the best-looking boys in school. But Tainie barely has time to enjoy her newfound ability before covert agents bent on obtaining the knowledge of how to create an army of shapeshifters threaten her whole world.

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Escape From Earth (Oasis), by Ivis Bo Davis

Description
LEAVE EARTH OR DIE

The electromagnetic field around the Earth is fading away, and with it the protection it once provided against solar radiation. Soon the planet will burn, and everything and everyone on the planet will die. Deep Space Vessel Trisznov is the first human interstellar colony ship, and she is nearly ready to launch in search of a new habitable planet to colonize among the stars...

The United Nations has refused to arm the colony ships with powerful military weapons for their defense, under the guise of refusing to export war to the universe...

Radical religious zealots are intent on preventing unbelievers from exporting their wickedness to the heavens, even if they have to destroy the colony ships and the hopes of all mankind...

A greedy Russian Colonel has possession of a nuclear warhead to sell to the right buyer...

International bankers, determined to take political and economic control of the new colony, are behind the U.N.'s 'Unarmed Colonist" decision. Unknown to the United Nations, they are secretly building a fleet of heavily armed Space Cruisers to follow the colonists to their new planet, OASIS, to enforce their continued lust for power...

In the midst of immense international tension, a worldwide riot threatens to break out among the terrified majority who finally understand that they will be left behind to die...

Three unlikely teenagers leading a tiny group of political dissidents are all that stand in the way of the power brokers and those determined to prevent the colonization of the universe. Along the way they discover that they need the help of someone greater than themselves...

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How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, by Charles Yu

Lev Grossman Reviews How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe for Amazon: (Lev Grossman is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Magicians.)

The science-fictional universe in question in this marvel of a novel is Minor Universe 31 (MU31). It's something of a second-rate universe, having been left unfinished by whoever was constructing it--the laws of physics were abandoned only 93 percent installed, Yu tells us, and the human inhabitants "seem to have been left with a lingering sense of incompleteness." This is a universe you need to visit. If by some happy chance you don’t already live there.

The hero of this story, also named Charles Yu, ekes out a living there as a time travel repairman--"a certified network technician for T-class personal-use chronogramattical vehicles, and an approved independent affiliate contractor for Time Warner Time, which owns and operates this universe as a spatio-temporal structural and entertainment complex zoned for retail, commercial, and residential use." (Time Warner Time -- that's the kind of three-pointer Yu never misses.) Charles is a high-tech sad sack, whose only companions are a dog, who's mostly hypothetical, and a computer with a sexy feminine AI interface that Yu has a crush on.

The thing about time travel in MU31 is that it's not all wormholes and apocalypses and "look out that's a temporal anomaly off the starboard nacelle, Captain!" Human beings mostly use time machines to go back and eavesdrop on their own screwed-up lives, reliving key moments, bad decisions and missed opportunities, in the mistaken belief that they can change them. They can't. "I have job security," Yu explains, "because what the customer wants, when you get right down to it, is to relive his very worst moment, over and over again."

Not that Yu has it all figured out. His elderly mom is parked in a time loop, where she cooks a Sunday dinner over and over again. His father, a tragically frustrated inventor, is lost somewhere in the chronoverse. And Yu has a problem: one day he accidentally ran into his future self … and shot him. That's right: he shot himself. And one day, the laws of the universe dictate, that future self will be him.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is a triumph, as good as anything in Calvino or Stanislaw Lem. I wish I could travel back in time with a copy and fraudulently publish it under my own name. Like most people, I thought I learned everything I needed to know about time travel from H.G. Wells and Star Trek, but I thought wrong: In Yu's skillful hands a worn-out science fiction plot device becomes a powerfully expressive metaphor for how we experience the flickering, ineffable, ungraspable spatio-temporal phenomenon of life. Because after all, we're all time travelers, blundering forward into the future at the rate of one second per subjectively experienced second.

Except when we don't. Think about it: How many times have you yourself been trapped in a time loop, cycling obsessively through one inescapable moment, again and again and again, while the rest of the universe rolled forward and left you behind?

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Red Moon, by Chris Berman

2017: While America prepares for a return to the Moon in 2020, China lands a military expedition on the Moon’s South Pole and in defiance of UN treaties, seizes the subsurface lunar ice fields and claims the Moon’s resources as the property of the People’s Republic of China. African American President Cordelier Price, thrust into her role as commander in chief by an assassin’s bullet, must enlist the aid of discredited former NASA astronaut John McGovern to lead an international collation and stake a counter claim. McGovern however, finds he must share his command duties with beautiful Russian cosmonaut Natasha Polyakova, as they face traitors, saboteurs and the Chinese military that will stop at nothing to end their quest. As the coalition crew battles for their lives on the unforgiving surface of the Moon, China’s true sinister plans for global domination emerge, sending the world on a collision course toward nuclear war.


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Sardu, by Carma Dillon

Ruby is the only child with an active imagination in a future spaceship society ruled by superstitious genetic engineers who put her parents down for being incurable daydreamers. She escapes with the legendary 100-year-old woman and is thrown into an outrageous quest to save the last giant dragonfly.

Saardu is a planet in the Eagle Nebula, seven thousand light years from Earth. The series is suitable for imaginative readers of any age, and is inspired by the idea of 11 dimensions as suggested by String Theory.

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Astra: The Reckoning, by Lisa Ekstra

Description
A year ago, Magnius Zoleki struggled with a life of boredom and an unhappy marriage. These days, he'd take those problems in a heartbeat.

After fleeing New England, Magnius and Amii arrive on Barnard Station: a decaying trade outpost on the edge of oblivion. One misstep sends them hiding in places vagrants refuse to tread, all while they plot to rescue her father from the alien mothership. Her plan is nothing short of audacious—if they manage to stay under the radar long enough to execute it.

To add to their troubles, the crisis with Xur reaches critical proportions. The Allied Confederacy refuses their demand for unconditional surrender, plunging them into a brand of warfare Astra has never experienced. Magnius and Amii try to stay neutral but get caught between the two sides and swept into the struggle. It's the beginning of a war that might kill everyone he holds dear. The last place he wants to be is on the wrong side, and if that doesn't tear apart what remains of his sanity, Amii Martin will.

Astra: The Reckoning is the second novel in the Astra saga, a story that follows in the epic tradition of Cyteen and Dune.

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The Starfish People, by Leann Marshall

Description:
Leg muscles burning and arms punching through water and air, hands clawing for something, anything that can pull me up, pull me out, give me a chance! Help me help me help me . . .
Gasping, SERA wakes from the nightmare again.
Her therapist believes that her troubled young patient is reliving the drowning death from a past life in her dreams. When she convinces Sera to travel back in time to witness the death of that past entity in an effort to break the nightmare's cycle, Sera is faced with a difficult choice: does she stand by and let events unfold as they will, or does she break the rules of time travel and help to save the ones she loves, only to risk everything, including her own life? The choice she makes results in an anomaly so horrible and yet so beautiful, it transforms each of them.


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