Charles Yu's funny, brainy short stories are perfectly in tune with our times, blending sci-fi and virtual reality with the motivations and complexities of the human heart.
In his brilliant novel, Mitchell plays with the past, present, and future, using intertwined narratives to take on philosophical concepts of fate, power, and what ultimately connects us all.
In Lissa Price's dark future, sinister senior citizens hold all the power and teens bargain their youth, and bodies, for cash. This young adult sci-fi thriller is a must-read for fans of The Hunger Games.
Author Mark Frost, co-creator of the TV phenom Twin Peaks, discusses the uniquely mind-bending experience that is book one of his new young adult sci-fi trilogy.
Fifty teen boys with no memory locked in a terrifying maze with metal monsters surrounding them ... and suddenly the clock is ticking down for them to make their escape. Welcome to James Dashner's sci-fi world in The Maze Runner, headed soon for the silver screen.
The Maze Runner sci-fi trilogy thrilled readers, and now James Dashner talks about his prequel, The Kill Order, complete with sun flares and an incredible virus threatening humanity.
In Cinder, her first book in The Lunar Chronicles, Meyer has reinterpreted a classic fairy tale, setting it in a futuristic city and making the 'princess' a cyborg. For fans of anime and sci-fi, this young-adult book will delight.
Truth be told, Ready Player One will leave you feeling a little nostalgic for the gloriousness of the 1980s. Here, Cline offers insight into geeking out and why '80s pop culture is still relevant today.
Welcome to Marie Lu's young adult debut, Legend, a story that takes us into the ruins of Los Angeles, its former beauty a distant memory.
Slate recently compared Joe Spork, the protagonist of Nick Harkaway's ripping spy novel Angelmaker, to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Arthur Dent and Neverwhere's Richard Mayhew. Accurate comparisons, both.
Philip Pullman’s series, His Dark Materials -- comprised of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass -- is already hailed as a young adult classic, a mere fourteen years after the first book was published, and with good reason.
Don’t let Justin Cronin's The Passage fool you. It is not your typical end-of-society story, where we are being ravaged by vampires, zombies, fill-in-the-blank creatures.
Oceans Eleven Comes to the YA Set: Ally Carter's Perfect Scoundrels
Some Heat Before Summer: Long Simmering Spring by Elisabeth Barrett
Mark Bittman's VB6: The Lifestyle Book Everyone's Talking About
Free Will: A Concise Study in Fact vs Illustion
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