Great Science Fiction

Science Fiction is a genre with an incredible amount of variety and depth that goes way beyond the Star Trek and Tekk War series. Check out the following interesting and thought-prokoving science fiction novels.

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sowe: Lauren Olamina, a black teenager, grew up in a 21st-century America that was tearing itself apart. Global warming, massive unemployment, gang warfare and corporate greed combined to break down society in general and her impoverished southern California neighborhood in. When her relatively safe neighborhood enclave is inevitably destroyed, along with her family and dreams for the future, Lauren grabs a backpack full of supplies and begins a journey north.

Robert Charles Wilson,  Spin: One summer night the stars abruptly blink out. Three young people are lying on the grass behind a house. They react, like the rest of the country, with a variety of emotions, and everyone wonders if the sun will come up.

Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow: The Catholic Church sends a group of scientists and one priest to make first contact with an extraterrestrial civilization. One man returns with a horrifying story of how their best intentions radically changed that civilization.