Catalog Search Results
62) Black Days
Author
Language
English
Description
The Third World War might be over, but its effects are about to be felt in a way no one could have ever imagined.
The new generation has been altered by the same bioweapons that wiped out a vast number of their predecessors, making puberty come with much more than just acne and awkwardness. Alexei Murta is one of the first to experience these changes, and it very quickly turns into a constant struggle to not only survive, but do so while keeping...
63) Looker
Author
Language
English
Description
NexGenoid was conducting a product field test. The project was, meant to provide human like machines able to blend into the general population. Their role would be for whatever function their owners deemed to be appropriate. A perfect exterior coupled with superior artificial intelligence. Several breakthroughs advanced the early robot-like androids. Sophisticated software verged on artificial intelligence. But, the real breakthrough came with the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Elaine Brody a psych nurse working with her brother in an organization called Scarlet Chaos. The small group is labeled domestic terrorists by the United States for protesting forced vaccinations that cause sterility. The group becomes more subversive until Elaine survives a biological agent used as an act of war from China. The bio attack directed at health care workers allowed the US government to pass a new law. The law identifies citizens according...
Author
Language
English
Description
In science, not God we trust is the future America in which Jordan McCarty, a professor of seventeenth-century English literature, has just lost his job and is losing his eighteen-year-old son, Brenton, to a "God gang" as belief in the Bible is now against the law. Blessed with a photographic memory but in need of a job, Jordan joins the world of biotechnology kingpin and former colleague Dr. Richard Dickson, who offers him a position as a technology...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The trouble with wanting to do the right thing is that frequently the right thing today is the wrong thing for tomorrow, or the wrong thing for the people who are standing between you and your perfect, platonic future. The wild was the wrong place for our elephant, just like the recycler was the wrong place for Billie, and the cities were the wrong place for me." A tale of bioengineering, a carnival, and the cost of finding one's right place.
At...
67) Rainbow Brigade
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this urban fantasy, a sword-wielding female blacksmith goes up against mythical and supernatural creatures in epic, action-filled battles.
When a rash of suicides strikes Bellingham, Washington, Sarah Beauhall finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy that involves long-dead gods, love-scorned ancients, dragons, witch feuds, and the rediscovery of a mysterious abandoned world.
Can Sarah put together the puzzle pieces before her world comes...
68) Superior
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirteen year old Billy Chambers is terrified of the nightmare he's living in. What he is seeing can not be real, so is he seriously ill? Then his parents reveal he has emerging abilities shared by them and a few other humans. But is this a curse or a blessing? Powers hidden by his kind for many centuries are known to a secret network of people who have plans of their own. Someone close to the Chambers family puts them all in danger.
Author
Language
English
Description
All her life, Eveningstar of the Pure has honed her survival skills against the strand, a nanotech organism, which infests most of the planet. And she has always shunned the Tainted, those who replace their body parts with tamed strand to enhance their bodies and minds. But then a gang of child soldiers kidnaps her brother, taking him to the distant Gridlands, past a gauntlet of shape-shifting monsters. In an eternal war between technology and nature-between...
70) Napoleon
Author
Language
English
Description
She was in the habitat-actually in it, not seated at her workstation on the other side of the glass. She was standing before Napoleon in her white lab coat, which, inexplicably, she unzipped and shirked from her shoulders, allowing it to slide to the marshy floor. She didn't know how she had gotten there or how time had rewound so that the habitat and its great glass window were still intact … she only knew she was there to take the experiment to...
71) Color Blinded
Author
Language
English
Description
It's 2020. Racism and exclusionist politics are exploding around the globe, while COVID-19 spreads rapidly, causing death, severe illness and lock downs.
An exceptional immunologist develops a vaccine with a shockingly simple delivery system, but causes color blindness. The world must confront a complex question: is being color blinded the right solution to racism and COVID?
Author
Language
English
Description
The time is the future. Robots are doing the work previously performed by humans. The replacement of workers by robots is both predictable and inevitable. The owner of the largest robotics company in the world decides to create the perfect woman. He hires the best engineer to construct her body, and the best programmer to construct her brain. He buys an island and changes its name to Eden Island. He names the plan Project Eve, and she is planned to...
Author
Language
English
Description
Sun Li's dream of becoming a marine biologist falls by the wayside when she has to give it up to care for her sister and ailing mother. When their needs grow beyond what she can provide, Sun Li agrees to transfer her intelligence into a cyborg body in return for their lifetime care.
Now she works in one of the west coast's best known aquariums caring for the bad-tempered giant Pacific octopus named Rod. What happens when a powerful earthquake strikes...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nonomine might give Maddy everything she wants, but at what price?
Maddy knows she can't give her scientist husband the one thing he really wants an heir with his genes and genius. Or can she? Nonomine offers them the chance they've both been waiting for, even if it means living at nine times the normal human rate. But when things start to go wrong, the price they must pay is more than either of them ever dreamed.
Please note: This is a complete...
Author
Language
English
Description
Welcome to GenoMod Labs: Four friends who do science for a living, the bunnygirl who lives in their lab, and more weird creatures than you can shake a stick at. Mod science is a relatively new frontier in genetics, one Danny Darling and his friends were already making their mark in before the ink on their joint dissertation was dry. Their company, GenoMod Labs, was just getting started when a young performer walked through their door with her unscrupulous...
Author
Language
English
Description
The debut novel from a exciting new voice in SF-about what happens after ninety percent of humanity leaves Earth
There is an artificial ring around the Earth and it is empty after the Singularity. Either all the millions of inhabitants are dead, or they have been transformed into energy beings beyond human perception. Earth's population was reduced by ninety percent. Human civilization on Earth is now recovering from this trauma and even has a vigorous...
Author
Language
English
Description
An alien race known as the Xzebuliens that exists in an alternate universe has developed the technology to create a rift in our own that appears on the blind side of the moon. They send asteroids through the rift and deflect them to land on all the major continents of Earth, containing a virus engineered to wipe out the human race, so they can leave their dying world behind after we are gone. However, there will be limitations to the virus, like how...
Author
Language
English
Description
An extinction was about to take place. Based on all calculations and predictive analyses of all involved, the extermination was almost guaranteed to go on as scheduled.
The extinction was to occur on a rocky planet covered in waters of blue, one that was placed third from a medium-sized hydrogen-helium ball located somewhere near the middle of its galaxy. The exact time and date of this extinction were unknown factors to almost all life forms that...
79) Inverted
Author
Language
English
Description
Ethan Wright is a normal, sixteen-year-old student at Bellport High School. He doesn't have to worry about the day-to-day struggles that the evolutionals in his world have to face just for existing. Or does he?
When Ethan accidentally crosses paths with an evolutional, he's attacked for reasons he doesn't understand, and now he's forced to face the consequences. He's not only having to learn just how misunderstood evolutionals are but also how...
80) Mind Over Ship
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth's orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke's head, rescued from the fiery crash that killed her mother, struggles to regrow a new body in time to restore her dead mother's financial empire. And Pre-Singularity AIs conspire to join the human race just as human clones,...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Salina Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request