Dragon’s Time
by Anne & Todd McCafferey. Call Number: PS3563.A255D755 2011.
Another chapter in
the iconic Dragonriders series. In this book the planet Pern is in desperate
straits. The deadly Thread is falling, a
life-form that feeds on anything organic and falls through space from an
erratic planetoid above. Able to breathe
fire, Dragons can burn Thread before it touches ground, but a plague has killed
many of the dragons and their riders are desperately attempting anything they
can think of to save their planet. One
possibility is to use the dragons’ abilities to teleport back in time, but
mixing the past and future can lead to…consequences.
Mixing the near
future with bits of surreal humor and suspense, Williams tells the story of
Sean Makin, a washed-up child actor desperate for work, who gets a call from
the famous Dagmar Shaw. Dagmar’s made
millions in alternative reality video games and now she wants to make a movie,
with Sean as the star. The only hitch is
people seem to die around her. And the
movie may be a little something more than Sean knows.
One
hundred and fifty years from now, the Akinya business empire is worried. The matriarch, Grandmother Eunice Akinya, has
died while exploring the solar system and she’s left something awkward behind
on the moon. Her grandson doesn’t want
to leave his biological research of elephants, but the family needs him to keep
a lid on whatever Eunice left, so he’s sent to contain the damage. Unfortunately the effects are a lot more
extensive than the family guessed and the results could tear civilization
apart.
Caliban’s War
by James S.A. Corey. Call Number: PS3603.O73428C35 2012.
Second
book in the Expanse Trilogy, sees war break out between Mars and Earth, as a
Martian outpost on Ganymede is slaughtered by one invincible super
soldier. James Holden, the idealistic
Captain of the space ship Rocinante,
finds his crew out of a job until a scientist from Ganymede asks them to return
to the war-torn moon and help him find his child. Holden has no way of knowing that the
bioengineered soldier responsible for starting the war was only the first
glimpse of an alien invasion beyond any expectations, even those of the evil
corporations seeking to control it. A
powerhouse novel.
