Science Fiction Novels 2009
Explore the best science fiction novels of 2009 with our curated list of top titles. Discover groundbreaking stories, futuristic adventures, and must-read books from acclaimed authors in the genre.
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Enclave
by Kit Reed
Ex-marine Sargent Whitmore has a plan to make millions while protecting children from the self-destructing modern world. He turns an old Mediterranean monastery into a combined impenetrable fortress and school, and enrolls 100 filthy-rich children, most of them already well-known for legal troubles, drug problems and paparazzi run-ins. Once there, everyone is cut off from the outside world, fed only canned news stories about wars and natural disasters. When things inevitably go horribly wrong, young hacker "Killer" Stade, physician assistant Cassie, drug and sex-crazed Sylvie and monastery-raised orphan Benny all attempt heroics, but remain deeply flawed.
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Escape from Hell
by Larry Niven
The long-awaited follow-up to Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's classic science-fiction reimagining of Dante's Inferno.
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Steal Across the Sky
by Nancy Kress
The aliens appeared one day, built a base on the moon, and put an ad on the internet. At first, everyone thought it was a joke. But it wasn't. This is the story of three volunteers who answered that ad, and what they found on Kular A and Kular B.
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The Accord
by Keith Brooke
In a virtual utopia where the soul lives on after death and one's perceptions are bound only by imagination, a tale of love, murder, and revenge… The Accord, a virtual utopia where the soul lives on after death and your perceptions are bound only by your imagination.This is the setting for a tale of love, murder and revenge that crosses the boundaries between the real world and this virtual reality. When Noah and Priscilla escape into the Accord to flee her murderous husband, he plots to destroy the whole Accord and them with it. How can they hope to escape their stalker when he can become anything or anyone he desires and where does the pursuit of revenge stop for immortals in an eternal world?
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The Caryatids
by Bruce Sterling
Despite the family history that has led to their estrangement from one another, three identical clone sisters hold the key to saving the world from global warming, runaway pollution, and political intrigue.
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The Temporal Void
by Peter F. Hamilton
The fate of humanity hinges on a handful of people when a mysterious void at the heart of the galaxy begins to expand and devour everything in its path.
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This is Not a Game
by Walter Jon Williams
THIS IS NOT A GAME is a novel built around the coolest phenomenon in the world. That phenomenon is known as the Alternate Reality Game, or ARG. It's big, and it's getting bigger. It's immersive and massively interactive, and it's spreading through the Internet at the speed of light. To the player, the Alternate Reality Game has no boundaries. You can be standing in a parking lot, or a shopping center. A pay phone near you will ring, and on the other end will be someone demanding information. You'd better have the information handy. ARGs combine video, text adventure, radio plays, audio, animation, improvisational theater, graphics, and story into an immersive experience. Now, one of science fiction's most acclaimed writers, Walter Jon Williams, brings this extraordinary phenomenon to life in a pulse-pounding thriller. This is not a game. This is a novel that will blow your mind.
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WWW
by Robert J. Sawyer
Receiving an implant to restore her sight, math genius Caitlin's life is changed in ways she could have never imagined when she suddenly begins to see a world beyond reality and an incredible realm that others cannot.
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The Immortality Factor
by Ben Bova
A cutting-edge battle of wills over one of today’s biggest medical controversies
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Diamond Star
by Catherine Asaro
Del is a rising rock singer. He is also the renegade son of the Ruby Dynasty, which makes his career choice less than respectable. But with his life entangled in the politics of three interstellar civilizations, talent might not be enough.
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Flood
by Stephen Baxter
Four hostages are finally released, but they face a world suddenly inundated as vast amounts of water is released from the earth's mantle. As the world's cities and countries disappear under the rising seas, humanity faces unimaginable global disaster.
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House of Suns
by Alastair Reynolds
When their clone brethren fail to appear for a scheduled meeting, Campion and Purslane, who have fallen in love in spite of edicts forbidding a clone union, learn that a dangerous enemy has been working to eliminate their entire line. By the author of The Prefect.
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Julian Comstock
by Robert Charles Wilson
From the Hugo-winning author of "Spin" comes an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America.
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And Another Thing...
by Eoin Colfer
Released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the bestselling works "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and "Artemis Fowl, And Another Thing . . ." continues the popular series started by the late Douglas Adams.