Search Results: Returned 10 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 10
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-- Nineteen eighty-four1981., Plume/Harcourt Brace Book Call No: Dystopian Fic Orwell Genre: Classic, Science fiction Availability:2 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: An allegory exploring the dangers of life in a strictly totalitarian society governed by Big Brother and the Thought Police. As an employee at the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith is constantly confronted with lies invented by the government to perpetuate its own power. Smith joins a rebel group called the Brotherhood dedicated to destroying the Party and freeing everyone under its control.
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-- Twenty thousand leagues under the seac2000., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Call No: Sci Fi FIC Verne Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Scholastic classicsSummary Note: Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.
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By Rand, Ayn1999, c1946., Caxton Press Call No: Sci Fi FIC Rand Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a future world, only one man dares to think, strive, and love as an individual in the midst of a paralyzing collective humanity.
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-- Brave new world and Brave new world revisited2010., Harper Perennial Modern Classics Call No: Sci Fi FIC Huxley Edition: 1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics deluxe ed. Genre: Classic, Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Contains both the fictional "Brave New World" and the non-fictional "Brave New World Revisited," which compares the modern-day world with his earlier prophetic fantasy.
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2018., Arcturus Publishing Limited Call No: Horror FIC Shelley Genre: Science fiction, Classic Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
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2018., Olive Editions Call No: Horror FIC Shelley Edition: First Harper Perennial Olive edition, Limited edition. Genre: Classic, Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
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c1992, c1988., TOR Call No: Sci Fi FIC Wells Edition: 1st TOR ed. Genre: Science fiction, Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The tale of a scientist who discovers how to make his body become invisible, but, when he can't make himself visible again, becomes violently insane.
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2004., Modern Library Call No: Sci Fi FIC Verne Edition: 2004 Modern Library Mass Market ed. Genre: Classic, Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Modern Library classicsSummary Note: When five Union prisoners escape in a balloon from the siege of Richmond, they land on the shores of an uncharted island and learn to survive but soon strange things begin to happen all around them.
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c2001., HarperCollins Call No: Sci Fi FIC Wells Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Books of wonderSummary Note: As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.
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[2007]., Pre-adolescent, Square Fish Call No: Blue Fiction L'ENGLE Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O'Keefe become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. Includes "An appreciation" by Anna Quindlen and an interview with the author.