Set in the Future

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Updated April 28, 2025
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Afrofuturism : a history of Black futures
Strait, Kevin Michael Angelo
Paper Book
This timely and gorgeously illustrated companion book to an exciting Smithsonian exhibition explores the power of Afrofuturism to reclaim the past and reimagine Black futures Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures explores the evolving and exhilarating concept of...
Fear of a black universe : an outsider's guide to the future of physics
Alexander, Stephon
Paper Book
In this guide to science and society, a cosmologist argues that physics must embrace the excluded, listen to the unheard, and be unafraid of being wrong.   Years ago, cosmologist Stephon Alexander received life-changing advice: to discover real physics, he...
Firestorm : how wildfire will shape our future
Struzik, Edward
Paper Book
"Frightening...Firestorm comes alive when Struzik discusses the work of offbeat scientists."  --New York Times Book Review "Comprehensive and compelling." --Booklist "A powerful message." --Kirkus ...
The handmaid's tale
Atwood, Margaret
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (The New York Times) * The sixth and final season of the award-winning Hulu series starring Elisabeth Moss is now streaming ...
J : a novel
Jacobson, Howard
Paper Book
Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize "J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson's triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as...
Klara and the sun
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Paper Book
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY TAIKA WAITITI AND STARRING JENNA ORTEGA AND AMY ADAMS * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go<...
Why geology matters : decoding the past, anticipating the future
Macdougall, J. D.
Paper Book
Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakes--geoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives. But more than that, as Doug Macdougall makes clear, the science also provides important clues to the future of the planet. In an entertaining and accessibly written narrative,...

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