Age: Science Fiction

Science Fiction genre

Mickey Moonbeam

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 29, 2007

Young Mickey, who lives on a faraway moon, receives a distress call from his pen pal, Quiggle, whose space scooter has crashed on a nearby asteroid, and they both get a big surprise when they finally meet face to face.

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The Pack

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 22, 2007

Bradley, Victor, and Floris live with wild dogs on the dark, forgotten edge of a devastated city. Haunted by memories and abandoned by society, they have learned to survive on their own. But when Floris is kidnapped the others must venture into the unknown to save their friend. It is a dangerous journey–violent gangs walk [...]

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Larklight : A Rousing Tale Of Dauntless Pluck In The Farthest Reaches Of Space

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

<!–[if !supportEmptyParas]–> <!–[endif]–>In an alternate Victorian England, young Arthur and his sister Myrtle, residents of Larklight, a floating house in one of Her Majesty’s outer space territories, uncover a spider plot to destroy the solar system.

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The Diary Of Pelly D

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.

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The Dreamwalker’s Child

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: June 19, 2007

After being hit by a car Sam Palmer finds himself in Aurobon, a land of giant insects where some of the inhabitants are working to keep Earth’s ecology in balance while others are trying to wipe out humankind with a lethal virus spread by mosquitoes.

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Space Dogs

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Commanders Belka and Strelka, of the planet Gersbach, board their dog-shaped vehicle and head for earth, where they attempt to capture two power-seeking renegades and hope to save their own planet from destruction.

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Invitation To The Game

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

Unemployed after high school in the highly robotic society of 2154, Lisse and seven friends resign themselves to a boring existence in their ‘Designated Area’ until the government invites them to play The Game.

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The Crystal Drop

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

In the summer of 2011, the death of their mother sends Megan and her younger brother Ian on a dangerous journey across a Canada ravaged by drought and the collapse of civilization.

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Jumpman: Rule #1: Don’t Touch Anything

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

When a defective time-jumping device strands Theodore, a teen from the distant future, in the twenty-first century, he is helped by two high schoolers–Jules, who is having time problems of his own, and Gen, an old friend Jules was about to ask out.

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The Promise

By Kathy G. Short | Published: March 14, 2007

A promise made by her parents before she was born sends ten-year-old Princess Rania to the desert continent of Roshan to learn mastery of the wind and rain from the old woman known as the Sandwriter. Sequel to ‘Sandwriter.’

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