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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
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"First Nations, M̌tis and Inuit artists, activists, educators and writers, youth and elders come together to envision Indigenous futures in Canada and around the world. Discussing everything from language renewal to sci-fi, this collection is a powerful and important expression of imagination rooted in social critique, cultural experience, traditional knowledge, activism and the multifaceted experiences of Indigenous people on Turtle Island. In Me...
22) Firebreak
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"New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side....
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Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (550 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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What if science fiction stopped being fiction? Developments in neuroscience are turning sci-fi scenarios into reality, and causing us to revisit some of the philosophical questions we have been asking ourselves for centuries. Science fiction often takes its inspiration from the latest science ... and our oldest questions. After all, the two are inextricably linked. At a time when advances in artificial intelligence are genuinely leading us closer...
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Pub. Date
[2020].
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"The year is 2086 and the planet is deteriorating fast. Extreme weather events and unseasonable climate have become the norm. Millions die of famine and drought each year and yet the population continues to grow, reaching well over 10 billion people. After millions of years of evolution, humanity faces collapse. But all is not lost. There is another planet, far from our solar system, which may be capable of supporting human life - Arcadia. Dr. Amber...
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"In this debut set in near future NYC--where lives last 300 years and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming--Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever. Lea Kirino is a "Lifer," which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever--if she does everything right. And Lea is an overachiever. She's a successful trader on the New York exchange--where instead of stocks, human organs...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xv, 410 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"For many Americans, imagining a bright future has always been an act of resistance. A People's Future of the United States presents twenty never-before-published stories by a diverse group of writers, featuring voices both new and well-established. These stories imagine their characters fighting everything from government surveillance, to corporate cities, to climate change disasters, to nuclear wars. But fear not: A People's Future also invites...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
A roller-coaster tour through our obsession with the future - and what's at stake when we neglect our present. Tech bloggers livecast the launch of the latest Kindle, crowds form serpentine lines outside of Apple stores on the eve of new iPhone releases, stock markets surge and recede on rumours of what Intel and Microsoft have in the pipeline, and, on college campuses across the country, universities offer master's degrees in Future Studies. Meet...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
The 16 stories selected by first-time editor Payseur and guest editor C.L. Clark in this adept first volume in a planned annual series are diverse in genre, form, and character identity, but many explore similar themes of journeys, transformation, and chosen family. Some stories revolve around a character’s queer identity and related issues they face—a person decides whether to get top surgery while hiking across a nuclear wasteland, someone whose...
29) Doing time
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Series
Time police novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xi, 468 pages ; 24 cm
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...
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