Bailey Cove Science Fiction

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: Catching Fire

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, March 1, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge.

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: the Hunger Games

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, August 4, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

The acclaimed author of the "New York Times"-bestselling Underland Chronicles series delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in a stunning novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to the present.

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: Hogfather

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Humorous fantasy author Terry Pratchett returns to his beloved and bestselling Discworld, a flat land of untamed imagination where all manner of oddities and absurdities take place. In his own inimitable fashion, Pratchett turns his mighty talents to satirizing the Santa Claus myth in Hogfather, where he shows us the ridiculous extent to which some will go to destroy, or preserve, the season of giving. So hop on board for another delightful and hilarious jaunt through Discworld with Terry Pratchett.

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: October Country

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Haunting, harrowing, and downright horrifying, this classic collection from the modern master of the fantastic features:
THE SMALL ASSASSIN: a fine, healthy baby boy was the new mother's dream come true -- or her nightmare . . .
THE EMISSARY: the faithful dog was the sick boy's only connectioin with the world outside -- and beyond . . .
THE WONDERFUL DEATH OF DUDLEY STONE: a most remarkable case of murder -- the deceased was delighted!
And more!

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: Feed

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon — a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy girl who has decided to fight the feed and its omnipresent ability to categorize human thoughts and desires.

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: Nine Princes in Amber

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

The 1st novel in Zelazny's Amber Series. Corwin, Prince of Amer is exiled on Shadow Earth for centuries, and upon his return to Amber, the one true world, he makes a mad and desperate rush upon the vacant throne.

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: Little, Big

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkawater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in a house that is many houses on the magical border of an otherworld. It is a story of fantastic love and heartrending loss; of impossible things and unshakable destinies; and of the great Tale that envelops us all. It is a wonder.

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: The Stars My Destination

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, July 7, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

  In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hit men--and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive.

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: The Languages of Pao

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Bailey Cove Science Fiction: Abarat

Location: Bailey Cove Branch Library
Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm

*Note: this date has been changed FROM May 5th. We hope to see you here!*

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