Grade 10 Science Summer Reading List

Using this sheet, select a science book to read over the summer.

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Non-Fiction Title & Author Cover Synopsis:

1. How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction By Beth Shapiro

Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction.

2. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife By Mary Roach

"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that―the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist?” In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers:, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.

3. Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History By Donald Canfield

The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield—one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and the early oceans—covers this vast history, emphasizing its relationship to the evolution of life and the evolving chemistry of the Earth.

4. Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters By Matt Ridley

Each gene has a story to tell, and Ridley skillfully selects one story for each human chromosome pair as a thread in a tapestry of interwoven themes of human nature: life and fate; death and immortality; health, healing, and disease; instinct, memory, learning, intelligence, personality, and behavior; sex; cooperation and competition; determinism and free will; heredity, environment, and culture.

5. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future By Ashlee Vance

Vance uses Musk's story to explore one of the pressing questions of our time: can the nation of inventors and creators which led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk--one of the most unusual and striking figures in American business history--is a contemporary amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs

6. Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks By Ben Goldacre

Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption? Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for causing heart attacks ever got approved in the first place? How can average readers, who aren't medical doctors or Ph.Ds. in biochemistry, tell what they should be paying attention to and what's, well, just more crap? Ben Goldacre has made a point of exposing quack doctors and nutritionists, bogus credentialing programs, and biased scientific studies.

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7. Making of the Atomic Bomb By Richard Rhodes

Twenty-five years after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the definitive history of nuclear weapons and the Manhattan Project. Richard Rhodes’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book details the science, the people, and the socio-political realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb. Reading like a character-driven suspense novel, the book introduces the players in this saga of physics, politics, and human psychology

8. Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy By Kip Thorne

Which of these bizarre phenomena, if any, can really exist in our universe? Black holes, down which anything can fall but from which nothing can return; wormholes, short space warps connecting regions of the cosmos; singularities, where space and time are so violently warped that time ceases to exist and space becomes a kind of foam; gravitational waves, which carry symphonic accounts of collisions of black holes billions of years ago; and time machines, for traveling backward and forward in time.

9. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed By Jared Diamond

Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives. Collapse moves from the Polynesian cultures on Easter Island to the flourishing American civilizations of the Anasazi and the Maya and finally to the doomed Viking colony on Greenland. Similar problems face us today and have already brought disaster to Rwanda and Haiti, even as China and Australia are trying to cope in innovative ways

10.Comfortably Unaware: What We Choose to Eat is Killing Us and Our Planet By Dr. Richard Oppenlander

In Comfortably Unaware, Dr. Richard Oppenlander tackles the crucial issue of global depletion as it relates to food choice. We should all be committed, he tells us, to understanding the reality and consequences of our diet, the footprint it makes on our environment, and seek food products that are in the best interest of all living things. His forthright information and stark mental images are often disturbing-and that's how it should be.

11. The World Without Us By Alan Weisman

If human beings disappeared instantaneously from the Earth, what would happen? What creatures would emerge from the dark and swarm? How would our treasured structures--our tunnels, our bridges, our homes, our monuments--survive the unmitigated impact of a planet without our intervention? In his revelatory, bestselling account, Alan Weisman draws on every field of science to present an environmental assessment like no other.

12. Everyone is African: How Science Explodes the Myth of Race By Daniel J. Fairbanks

What does science say about race? In this book a distinguished research geneticist presents abundant evidence showing that traditional notions about distinct racial differences have little scientific foundation. In short, racism is not just morally wrong; it has no basis in fact. Both geneticists and anthropologists now generally agree that the human species originated in sub-Saharan Africa and darkly pigmented skin was the ancestral state of humanity. Moreover, worldwide human diversity is so complex that discrete races cannot be genetically defined. And for individuals, ancestry is more scientifically meaningful than race. This is an enlightening book that goes a long way toward dispelling the irrational notions at the heart of racism.

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13. Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet By Leonard David

The next frontier in space exploration is Mars, the red planet—and human habitation of Mars isn’t much farther off. Now the National Geographic Channel goes years fast-forward with “Mars,” a six-part series documenting and dramatizing the next 25 years as humans land on and learn to live on Mars. Filled with vivid photographs taken on Earth, in space, and on Mars; arresting maps; and commentary from the world’s top planetary scientists, this fascinating book will take you millions of miles away—and decades into the future—to our next home in the solar system.

14. Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet By Mark Lynas

Possibly the most graphic treatment of global warming that has yet been published, Six Degrees is what readers of Al Gore's best-selling An Inconvenient Truth or Ross Gelbspan's Boiling Point will turn to next. Written by the acclaimed author of High Tide, this highly relevant and compelling book uses accessible journalistic prose to distill what environmental scientists portend about the consequences of human pollution for the next hundred years.

16. Hunting the 1918 Flu By Kirsty Duncan

In 1918 the Spanish flu epidemic swept the world and killed an estimated 20 to 40 million people in just one year, more than the number that died during the four years of the First World War. To this day medical science has been at a loss to explain the Spanish flu's origin. Most virologists are convinced that sooner or later a similarly deadly flu virus will return with a vengeance; thus anything we can learn from the 1918 flu may save lives in a new epidemic. The author, herself a medical geographer, is very frank about her bruising emotional, financial, and professional experiences on the 'dark side of science.'

17. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming By Mike Brown

The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and Pluto at the outer edge. Then, in 2005, astronomer Mike Brown made the discovery of a lifetime: a tenth planet, Eris, slightly bigger than Pluto. But instead of adding one more planet to our solar system, Brown’s find ignited a firestorm of controversy that culminated in the demotion of Pluto from real planet to the newly coined category of “dwarf” planet. Suddenly Brown was receiving hate mail from schoolchildren and being bombarded by TV reporters

18. Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men By Mara Hvistendahl

In 2007, the booming port city of Lianyungang achieved the dubious distinction of having the most extreme gender ratio for children under five in China: 163 boys for every 100 girls. The numbers may not matter much to the preschool set. But in twenty years the skewed sex ratio will pose a colossal challenge. When Lianyungang's children reach adulthood, their generation will have twenty-four million more

men than women. What does this mean for our future? The sex ratio imbalance has already led to a spike in sex trafficking and bride buying across Asia, and it may be linked to a recent rise in crime there as well. More far-reaching problems could be on the horizon: From ancient Rome to the American Wild West, historical excesses of men have yielded periods of violence and instability. Traveling to nine countries, Mara Hvistendahl has produced a stunning, impeccably researched book that examines not only the consequences of the misbegotten policies underlying sex selection but also the West's role in creating them.

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19 Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race By Margot Lee Shetterly

A group of exceptionally talented African American women known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South’s segregated public schools, they were called into service during the labor shortages of World War II, when America’s aeronautics industry was in dire need of anyone who had the right stuff. Hidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country’s future.

20. Steve Jobs By Walter Isaacson

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.

21. Code Girls: The Untold

Story of the American

Women Code Breakers of

World War II By Liza Mundy

Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.

22. Microserfs By Douglas Copeland

They are Microserfs—six code-crunching computer whizzes

who spend upward of sixteen hours a day "coding" and eating

"flat" foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed

underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail

to learn whether the great Bill is going to "flame" one of them.

But now there's a chance to become innovators instead of cogs

in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs

are striking out on their own—living together in a shared digital

flophouse as they desperately try to cultivate well-rounded lives

and find love amid the dislocated, subhuman whir and buzz of

their computer-driven world

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23. The Science of Evil By. Simon Baron-Cohan

A groundbreaking and challenging examination of the

social, cognitive, neurological, and biological roots of

psychopathy, cruelty, and evil

Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis:

All of these syndromes have one thing in common--lack of

empathy. In some cases, this absence can be dangerous, but in

others it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world.In

The Science of Evil Simon Baron-Cohen, an award-winning

British researcher who has investigated psychology and autism

for decades, develops a new brain-based theory of human

cruelty. A true psychologist, however, he examines social and

environmental factors that can erode empathy, including

neglect and abuse.

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Fiction Title and Author Cover Synopsis:

1. 2312 By Kim Stanley Robinson

The year is 2312. Scientific and technological advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. Earth is no longer humanity's only home; new habitats have been created throughout the solar system on moons, planets, and in between. But in this year, 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront its past, its present, and its future. The first event takes place on Mercury, For Swan Er Hong, it is an event that will change her life. Swan was once a woman who designed worlds. Now she will be led into a plot to destroy them.

2. The Giver By Lois Lowry

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner is a haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Lois Lowry has written three companion novels to The Giver, including Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son

3. The Windup Girl By Paulo Bacigalupi

What happens when calories become currency? What happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? Emiko is the Windup Girl, not human; but an engineered being, grown and programmed to satisfy the decadent whims of a Kyoto businessman, but now abandoned to the streets of Bangkok. Regarded as soulless beings by some, devils by others, New People are slaves, soldiers, and toys of the rich in this chilling near future in which calorie companies rule the world, the oil age has passed, and the side effects of bio-engineered plagues run rampant across the globe.

4. Stranger in a Strange Land By Robert Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land, winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has no knowledge of Earth's cultures or religions. But he brings turmoil with him, as he is the legal heir to an enormous financial empire, not to mention de facto owner of the planet Mars. Michael explores human morality and the meanings of love. He founds his own church, preaching free love and disseminating the psychic talents taught him by the Martians.

5. The Time Machine By H.G. Wells

English novelist, historian and science writer Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) abandoned teaching and launched his literary career with a series of highly successful science-fiction novels. The Time Machine, published in 1895, the novel follows the adventures of a Time Traveller who journeys into the future to find that humanity has evolved into two races: the peaceful Eloi — vegetarians who tire easily — and the carnivorous, predatory Morlocks. Sure to delight lovers of the fantastic and bizarre, The Time Machine belongs on the shelf of every science-fiction fan

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6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy By Douglas Adams

"IRRESISTIBLE!"—Says the Boston Globe. Why? Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who has been posing as an out-of-work actor. Together this pair begin a journey aided by a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

7. The Martian By Andy Weir

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills—and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit—he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next.

8. The Sword of Shannara By Terry Brooks

The fist in a series of books blending fantasy and science fiction decades after the collapse of humanity begins with Shea Ohmsford, living in peaceful Shady Vale, who knew little of the troubles that plagued the rest of the world. Then the giant, forbidding Allanon revealed that the supposedly dead Warlock Lord was plotting to destroy the world. The sole weapon against this power of darkness was the Sword of Shannara, which could only be used by a true heir—and Shea is the last of the bloodline upon whom all hope rests. And thus begins the enthralling Shannara epic, a spellbinding tale of adventure, magic and myth in three volumes, The Shannara Chronicles.

9. The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells

The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth, and has influenced many others, as well as spawning several films, radio dramas, comic book adaptations, and a television series based on the story. The 1938 radio broadcast caused public outcry against the episode, as many listeners believed that an actual Martian invasion was in progress, a notable example of mass hysteria

10. The Death of Grass By John Christopher

The Chung-Li virus has devastated Asia, wiping out the rice crop and leaving riots and mass starvation in its wake. Wheat, barley, oats, rye-- no grass crop is safe, and global famine threatens. In Britain, getting wind of what’s in store, John Custance and his family decide they must abandon their London home to head for the sanctuary of his brother’s farm. And so they begin the long trek across a country fast descending into barbarism, where the law of the gun prevails, and the civilized values they once took for granted become the price they must pay if they are to survive.

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11. One Second After By William R. Forstchen

New York Times best-selling author William R. Forstchen now brings us a story which can be all too terrifyingly real…a story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war that will send America back to the Dark Ages…A war based upon a weapon, an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP). A weapon that may already be in the hands of our enemies.

Months before publication, One Second After has already been cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read, a book already being discussed in the corridors of the Pentagon as a truly realistic look at a weapon and its awesome power to destroy the entire United States, literally within one second. It is a weapon that the Wall Street Journal warns could shatter America, a dire warning of what might be our future…and our end

12. The Maze Runner By James Dashner

Book one in the blockbuster Maze Runner series that spawned a movie franchise and ushered in a worldwide phenomenon! And don’t miss The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated series conclusion that finally reveals the story of how the maze was built! When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone. Outside the towering stone walls that surround them is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive. Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying: Remember. Survive. Run. The Maze Runner and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials are now movies featuring the star of MTV's Teen Wolf, Dylan O’Brien; Kaya Scodelario; Aml Ameen; Will Poulter; and Thomas Brodie-Sangster. The third movie, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, will hit screens in 2018.

13 The Girl with All the Gifts By M.R. Carey

The USA Today bestseller Melanie is a very special girl. Dr. Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. The Girl With All the Gifts is a groundbreaking thriller, emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end

14. The 100 By Kass Morgan

No one has set foot on Earth in centuries -- until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents -- considered expendable by society -- are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life...or it could be a suicide mission. CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. WELLS, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves -- but will she ever forgive him? Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe. And GLASS managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be

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mankind's last hope

15. BIOME By Ryan Galloway

Inside the gleaming domes of Mars Colony One, seventeen-year-old Lizzy Engram and her fellow cadets work to make the Red Planet habitable. And every Sunday night, the doctors erase their memories. One morning, Lizzy wakes with all of the missing memories inside her head. And not just her own, but the memories of every cadet on the planet—from the boy who falls in love with her every week, to the girl who wants to ruin her life, to the cadets who have simply disappeared. Lizzy has six days to figure out what the doctors are hiding—and why—or she’ll lose more than her memories.

Fans of Doctor Who, The 100, Divergent, Cinder, and The Maze Runner will find themselves carried away in this nonstop psychological thriller

16.Slaughterhouse Five: A Novel By Kurt Vonnegut

Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most

17. Artemis By Andy Weir

Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich. Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than flavored algae. Rich enough to pay off a debt she’s owed for a long time. So when a chance at a huge score finally comes her way, Jazz can’t say no. Sure, it requires her to graduate from small-time smuggler to full-on criminal mastermind. And it calls for a particular combination of cunning, technical skills, and large explosions—not to mention sheer brazen swagger. But Jazz has never run into a challenge her intellect can’t handle, and she figures she’s got the ‘swagger’ part down. The trouble is, engineering the perfect crime is just the start of Jazz’s problems. Because her little heist is about to land her in the middle of a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself.

18. Everything, Everything By Nicola Yoon

What if you couldn’t touch anything in the outside world? Never breathe in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or kiss the boy next door? In Everything, Everything, Maddy is a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly is the boy who moves in next door . . . and becomes the greatest risk she’s ever taken. My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.

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But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.

19. This Mortal Coil By Emily Suvada

In this gripping debut novel, seventeen-year-old Cat must use her gene-hacking skills to decode her late father’s message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague. Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash through firewalls, but that’s not what makes her special. In Cat’s world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius. That’s no surprise, since Cat’s father is Dr. Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist who may be the last hope for defeating a plague that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. But during the outbreak, Lachlan was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own. When a Cartaxus soldier, Cole, arrives with news that her father has been killed, Cat’s instincts tell her it’s just another Cartaxus lie. But Cole also brings a message: before Lachlan died, he managed to create a vaccine, and Cole needs Cat’s help to release it and save the human race. Now Cat must decide who she can trust: The soldier with secrets of his own? The father who made her promise to hide from Cartaxus at all costs? In a world where nature itself can be rewritten, how much can she even trust herself?

20. Breakthrough By Micheal Grumley

Deep in the Caribbean Sea, a nuclear submarine is forced to

suddenly abort its mission under mysterious circumstances.

Strange facts begin to emerge that lead naval investigator,

John Clay, to a small group of marine biologists who are

quietly on the verge of making history.

With the help of a powerful computer system, Alison Shaw

and her team are preparing to translate the first two-way

conversation with the planet's second smartest species. But

the team discovers much more from their dolphins than they

ever expected when a secret object is revealed on the ocean

floor. One that was never supposed to be found.

Alison was sure she would never trust the military again.

However, when an unknown group immediately becomes

interested in her work, Alison realizes John Clay may be the

only person she can trust. Together they must piece together a

dangerous puzzle, and the most frightening piece, is the

trembling in Antarctica.

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21. Spin By. Robert Charles Wilson

One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler

Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out.

They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared,

replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best

friends,Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became

known as the Big Blackout. It would shape their lives.

The effect is worldwide. The sun is now a featureless disk–a

heat source, rather than an astronomical object. The moon is

gone, but tides remain. As Tyler,Jason, and Diane grow up, a

space probe reveals a bizarre truth: The barrier is artificial,

generated by huge alien artifacts. Time is passing faster

outside the barrier than inside–more than a hundred million

years per year on Earth. At this rate, the death throes of the

sun are only about forty years in our future. 22. Ready Player One By. Ernest Clime

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time

teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into

the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his

life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital

confines—puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession

with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive

power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

But when Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself

beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The

race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—

and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to

escape. 23. The 5th Wave By. Rick Yancy

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd,

only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky

survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no

one.

Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of

highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look

human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see.

Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to

stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker.

Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only

hope for rescuing her brother--or even saving herself. But

Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between

defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or

to get up.

"Wildly entertaining . . . I couldn't turn the pages fast

enough."—Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review

"A modern sci-fi masterpiece . . . should do for aliens what

Twilight did for vampires."—USAToday.com

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24. The Man in the High Castle. By. Phillip H. Dish

It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few

Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San

Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All

because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a

war—and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.

This harrowing, Hugo Award–winning novel is the work that

established Philip K. Dick as an innovator in science fiction

while breaking the barrier between science fiction and the

serious novel of ideas. In it Dick offers a haunting vision of

history as a nightmare from which it may just be possible to

wake.

Winner of the Hugo Award

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