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2000, c1968., Roc Call No: SCIENCE FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Two frightened navigators, three frozen hibernauts, and a talkative copmuter named Hal ride on the spacecraft Discovery, hoping to unravel the mystery of a crystal monolith left on the moon by alien intelligence.
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Ã1963., Dell Pub Call No: Science fiction FIC VONNEGUT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the year 2000, a young man discovers ice-nine, which can set off a chain reaction more deadly than a nuclear bomb, and a new prophet whose teachings sweep the world.
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2019., Grand Central Publishing Call No: Sci Fi Fic Butler Genre: Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Parable Of The Sower Volume: book 1Summary Note: When an environmental and economic crisis leads to social chaos and violence in California, fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina, who feels others' pain as her own, loses her family and home, and flees into the unprotected American landscape. What begins as a flight for survival soon leads to something more.
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[2019]., Grand Central Publishing Call No: Sci Fi Fic Butler Genre: Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 2032, Lauren Olamina's journals reflect an increasingly violent society where she searches for her abducted daughter Larkin, and tries to resist her community while promoting the religious group she has recently founded.
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[2016]., Seven Stories Press Call No: Class Set FIC BUT Edition: [Seven Stories Press edition.]. Availability:45 of 45 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Parable of the Talents celebrates the classic Butlerian themes of alienation and transcendence, violence and spirituality, slavery and freedom, separation and community, to astonishing effect, in the shockingly familiar, broken world of 2032. Long awaited, Parable of the Talents is the continuation of the travails of Lauren Olamina, the heroine of 1994's Nebula-Prize finalist, bestselling Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Talents is told in the voice of Lauren Olamina's daughter--from whom she has been separated for most of the girl's life--with sections in the form of Lauren's journal. Against a background of a war-torn continent, and with a far-right religious crusader in the office of the U.S. presidency, this is a book about a society whose very fabric has been torn asunder, and where the basic physical and emotional needs of people seem almost impossible to meet"--
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2019., Grand Central Publishing Call No: SCIENCE FICTION FIC BUT Edition: Grand Central Publishing edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel's timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is more relevant than ever. In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction of her home and family, and realized her vision of a peaceful community in northern California based on her newly founded faith, Earthseed. The fledgling community provides refuge for outcasts facing persecution after the election of an ultra-conservative president who vows to "make America great again." In an increasingly divided and dangerous nation, Lauren's subversive colony--a minority religious faction led by a young black woman--becomes a target for President Jarret's reign of terror and oppression. Years later, Asha Vere reads the journals of a mother she never knew, Lauren Olamina. As she searches for answers about her own past, she also struggles to reconcile with the legacy of a mother caught between her duty to her chosen family and her calling to lead humankind into a better future.
