New Frontiers

This month's display features science fiction, science fact, and the gray areas in between!

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Updated December 5, 2024
Westchester Library SystemMount Pleasant Public Library
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Wells, Martha
Audiobook
You look like a thing and I love you : how artificial intelligence works and why it's making the world a weirder place
Shane, Janelle
Ebook
Sleeping giants
Neuvel, Sylvain 1973-
Ebook
A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery--and a fight to control a gargantuan power. A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in...
The great unknown : seven journeys to the frontiers of science
Du Sautoy, Marcus
Ebook
"An engaging voyage into some of the great mysteries and wonders of our world." --Alan Lightman, author of Einstein's Dream and The Accidental Universe   "No one is better at making the recondite accessible and exciting." --Bill Bryson
In the lives of puppets
Klune, TJ
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER! New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts. Most Anticipated...
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Chiang, Ted
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories--two published for the very first time--all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others ...
The visioneers : how a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, nanotechnologies, and a limitless future
McCray, Patrick (W. Patrick)
Paper Book
The story of the visionary scientists who invented the future In 1969, Princeton physicist Gerard O'Neill began looking outward to space colonies as the new frontier for humanity's expansion. A decade later, Eric Drexler, an MIT-trained engineer, turned his attention to the...
The long way to a small, angry planet
Chambers, Becky
Paper Book
National Bestseller! The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, Hugo Award winner for Best Series! Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space--and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe--in this...

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