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The "feed" in Titus's brain is continuously spewing advertisements, music, game shows, and many other necessary bits of information. Hundreds of years ago, people actually had to use their eyes and fingers to get information by computer, but now, the computer chips are built right in, and bombard everyone with exactly what the corporate world wants them to know. Titus becomes friends with Violet, a girl who is opposed to the "feed." What will happen when their feeds are damaged and they decide to go against the feed? Summary from School Library Journal.

This contains the first three of Asimov's classic Foundation novels: Foundation, Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation.

Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson, parents of Stella, a genetically-enhanced child born as a result of mutations in the human genome caused by the SHEVA virus, lose the struggle to keep their daughter safe from a repressive government that wants to control the virus children by isolating them from the general population.

After years of stagnation, the Emperor must restart the march of human progress to save the Earth from the sun's explosion.

During his first year at the Battle School--where it is against the rules to celebrate religious holidays--Ender decides to give one of his classmates a holiday gift, and starts a fight between the students.

Gardner Dozois collects the best science fiction stories of the year, representing all genres of science fiction: hard SF, space opera, cyberpunk, and more.

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States-until he realizes why he has been cloned in the first place.

Flinx, an orphan who was purchased off the auction block by Mother Mastiff years earlier, sets out with his flying snake Pip to find out what has happened to Mother after she is kidnapped from her shop, not realizing he is the real target of the assailants.

This multiple award-winning novel is the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future: a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about technology and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations. This book made science fiction cyberpunk famous.

Davy escapes to another time zone when he decides he has had enough abuse from his alcoholic father. But this time-traveling gift comes at a price.

A near-future novel in which eighteen-year-old Lore van de Oest, stripped of her identity chip by the kidnappers who stole her from her wealthy family, struggles for control of her life after she is rescued by Spanner, a data pirate who offers Lore a world of possibilities.

In this science fiction classic hit, Duke Leo Atreides and his son, forced by the Emperor of the known universe to live in exile on a barren planet, lead the struggle against the Empire.

After learning that he has been sent from the future for a special purpose, eighteen-year-old Jack receives help from an unusual dog and a shape-shifting female fighter.

Jack finds himself embroiled in another dangerous adventure when, after a six-month absence, he returns to the Hudson River town where he grew up to find his girlfriend PJ only to discover that she is missing and everyone believes him to be responsible for her disappearance and the death of his family.

Polly's visit to her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.

After negotiations between the alien Tarsalans and Earth's rulers sour, the aliens form a mysterious green sphere around the Earth that prevents sunlight from getting through. Two scientists--one on the colonized moon, one on Earth--work to destroy the phytosphere before it is too late, while on Earth, plant life dies, temperatures plummet, famine spreads, and anarchy takes over.

In late-twenty-first-century San Francisco, where compassion is outlawed, the daughter of an artificial intelligence corporation leader tries to save her adopted son, an African boy suffering mental effects from a pandemic virus, from "brainwiping."

Max finds himself in possession of a time travel device which is eagerly sought by two desperate men, the scientist who invented it and the scientist's alter ego from a different timeline.

"In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about Infocalypse." Summary from the book website.

Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.

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