THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
by Douglas Adams
Arthur Dent, a refugee from the late planet Earth and his pal from the planet Betelgeuse, Ford Prefect, thumb their way through comic misadventures throughout the Universe.

FEED
by M.T. Anderson
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.

I, ROBOT
by Isaac Asimov
"They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two." With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on perhaps its greatest adventure: the invention of the first positronic man. It was a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities–and unforeseen risks.

FAHRENHEIT 451
by Ray Bradbury
Nowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. Then he met a seventeen-year old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid, and a professor who told him of a future where people could think. And Guy Montag knew what he had to do.

THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES
by Ray Bradbury
Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the Red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires. Man conquered Mars and in that instant, Mars conquered him. The strange new world with its ancient, dying race and vast, red-gold deserts cast a spell on him, settled into his dreams and changed him forever.

PARABLE OF THE SOWER
by Octavia E. Butler
Forced to flee an America where anarchy and violence have completely taken over, empath Lauren Olamina–who can feel the pain of others and is crippled by it–becomes a prophet carrying the hope of a new world and a new faith christened "Earthseed."

ENDER SERIES
by Orson Scott Card
An outstanding tale of the child-hero Ender Wiggin, who must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
by Arthur C. Clarke
When an enigmatic monolith is found buried on the moon, scientists are amazed to discover that it's at least 3 million years old. Even more amazing, after it's unearthed the artifact releases a powerful signal aimed at Saturn. What sort of alarm has been triggered? To find out, a manned spacecraft, the Discovery, is sent to investigate. Its crew is highly trained and they are assisted by a self-aware computer, the ultra-capable HAL 9000. But HAL is capable of guilt, neurosis, even murder, and the crew must overthrow this digital psychotic if they hope to make their rendezvous.

CHILDREN OF THE STAR
by Sylvia Engdahl
Noren knew that his world was not as it should be. Only the Scholars could use Machines and access the City and they also had power over the distribution of knowledge. The Prophecy promised that someday knowledge and Machines would be available to everyone but Noren had no faith in the Prophecy's fulfillment. But the more he learned of the grim truth about his people's deprivations, the less possible it seemed that their world could ever be changed.

HOUSE OF THE SCORPION
by Nancy Farmer
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.

SHADOW CHILDREN SERIES
by Margaret Peterson Haddix
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his life in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.

IN THE SMALL
by Michael Hague
When a mysterious cataclysmic event, "the blue flash," causes the population of the earth to shrink in size to six inches tall, suddenly humanity has the tables turned on itself: The very civilization it has created becomes its greatest obstacle to survival. Amid the confusion and turmoil, two strong teenagers, 18-year-old Mouse and his younger sister Beat, emerge as the most promising leaders, eventually setting out on a quest to discover the secret that could redeem this strange new world.

RED PLANET: A COLONIAL BOY ON MARS
by Robert A. Heinlein
A young colonist on Mars befriends a strange round creature called Willis who gets him into trouble when he goes away to school, but whose presence and friendship finally enable the colonials to negotiate a treaty with the Martians.

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
by Robert A. Heinlein
The epic saga of an earthling, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man.

DUNE CHRONICLES
by Frank Herbert
The first book of the Dune chronicles is set on the desert planet Arrakis and begins with the story of Maud'dib, a hero who will guide his great family in establishing the perfect society.

EVIL GENUIS
by Catherine Jinks
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.

EPIC
by Conor Kostick
On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik persuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.

MESSENGER
by Lois Lowry
Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

THE GIRL WHO HEARD DRAGONS
by Anne McCaffrey
After the loss of their Hold, Aramina and her family search for a permanent home on Pern and find their journey endangered as others discover Aramina's secret, that she has the rare power of understanding the speech of dragons.

WE3
by Grant Morrison
The story of three innocent pets who have been converted into deadly cyborgs by a sinister military weapons program. With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying mechanical exoskeletons, the members of Animal Weapon 3 have the firepower of a battalion between them. But they are just the program's prototypes and, now that their testing is complete, they're slated to be permanently decommissioned–until they seize their one chance to make a desperate run for freedom.

THE ADORATION OF JENNA FOX
by Mary E. Pearson
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

LIFE AS WE KNEW IT
by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Through journal entries sixteen-year-old Miranda describes her family's struggle to survive after a meteor hits the moon, causing worldwide tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

A STERKARM KISS
by Susan Price
The Time Tube has opened again between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries, and a wedding is arranged between the Sterkarms and the Grannams, catching Andrea up in the disastrous consequences.

JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH
by Jules Verne
This is the story of Professor Lidenbrock, his nephew Axel and their quest for the secrets contained at the earth's core. Led by Hans, their Icelandic guide, they descend deeper into the planet than anyone has ever gone before.

DOUBLE HELIX
by Nancy Werlin
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.

MIDNIGHTERS SERIES
by Scott Westerfeld
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.

UGLIES SERIES
by Scott Westerfeld
The high-tech adventures of Tally Youngblood. As an ugly, then a pretty and finally a special, Tally works to take down a society created to function with perfect-looking people who never have a chance to think for themselves.