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MONTHLY THEME: FOCUS ON SCIFI!
Focus on SciFi @ Tappan Library
Click on any of the titles below to reserve the book or come into the Adult Services Room for more help finding fun sci fi in our collections.
Fast Ships, Black Sails edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Do you love the sound of a peg leg stomping across a quarterdeck? Or maybe you prefer a parrot on your arm, a strong wind at your back? Adventure, treasure, intrigue, humor, romance, danger - and, yes, plunder! Oh, the Devil does love a pirate - and so do readers everywhere! Swashbuckling from the past into the future and space itself, the book presents an incredibly entertaining volume of original stories guaranteed to make you walk and talk like a pirate.
~Summary from catalog
Slow Train to Arcturus by Eric Flint and Dave Freer
When an exploratory team from the planet Miran rendezvousing with an enormous alien starship is attacked by the aliens, known as humans, one survivor, Kretz, finds sanctuary in another part of the ship with a group of humans who seem friendly and technologically deficient. Learning that the starship consists of detachable habitats filled with populations in search of their own planets, Kretz attempts to enlist a human ally to help him make his arduous way through various human social groups, some friendly, some not, to return to his own world. The book has a combination of hard sf, quirky humor, and fast-paced action.
~Library Journal
Quofum by Classic Sci Fi Author Alan Dean Foster
The lead-in to the end of the Pip and Flinx saga tracks a scientific expedition to Quofum, which doesn’t always exist. It moves, and its astonishing riot of life-forms—everything from predatory plants to many intelligent species—with it. While the science crew studies the natives, the maintenance tech, who’s actually a debt collector, leaves the planet, marooning everybody else. They keep collecting data, anyway, and discover why the planet sporadically disappears and the promise of a terrible threat to come. Foster clearly enjoys imagining Quofum’s profuse biota, so much that the book is tantamount to a stand-alone, though certainly significant in the greater epic.
~Booklist Review
Online Databases ...
The Tappan Library offers access to a variety of resources that offer science fiction articles and true scientific discoveries. To access any of these databases remotely, please visit our homepage at http://www.taš¢’×.org from your PC, Mac, or mobile Internet browser, and from the home page, click on Adult Services tab and then select Databases from the drop-down menu. If you need any assistance, please call the Library at 359-3877, and one of our trained librarians would be happy to walk you through the log-in and search process.
Proquest Platinum: Type the search term science fiction in quotations into the databases’ BASIC SEARCH search box to access the full-text of magazine articles from a premier sci fi publication called Analog and book and movie reviews from various sources.
Facts on File Today's Science: This database provides access to true encyclopedia articles on numerous scientific topics. Try a favorite genre theme like aliens or universe, and see what discoveries are happening today and the recent past.
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Web Sites to Explore the Science Fiction Genre
Click on the site title to be transported to that site.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact is the longest-running (almost)-continuously published science fiction magazðÍËgin the world. The site includes an extensive list of links to authors, publishers, magazines, awards, and interesting sites like these:
SciFi Time is your source for all things science fiction.
Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame based in Seattle is "preserving yesterday's tomorrow," according to their motto.
The Planetary Society is the world's largest space-interest group dedicated to inspiring the public to explore space.
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