This page contains a selection of Adult Science Fiction novels, which are located upstairs in the Science Fiction section of the library. The books are separated into different subjects that include Doctor Who, Star Trek, and others. In these subjects the books are in alphabetic order according to their title with a brief summary of each book following the title. Most of these books are the first or second book in a series. To see if we have more of a particular series by that author, click on the author's name and it will bring up all of the titles the Homewood Library has for that author.
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Dune | Space, Exploration, and Adventure
Doctor Who
Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl
by Terrance Dicks
The Doctor and Leela arrive on present day England after being pulled through a hole in the space-time continuum. This is being caused by a Time Scanner being used to probe the origins of an apparently human skull, but one which is from a time some eight million years before mankind evolved.
Star Trek
All Good Things
by Michael Jan Friedman
Captain Picard travels back and forth among his past, present, and future as he and the crew of the Enterprise fight to prevent the destruction of the human race.
Ashes of Eden
by William Shatner
In the months that follow his reluctant retirement, Captain James Kirk is offered an irresistible adventure by a beautiful and mysterious young woman that will force Kirk to confront the fragile peace between the Federation and the Klingons.
As James T. Kirk prepares for retirement, he is drawn back to Faramond, the icy, distant planet that had been the destination of his first spaceflight, by a puzzling mystery and the disappearance of the USS Excelsior.
Crossover
by Michael Jan Friedman
While teaching the logic of the Vulcan way to Romulans eager to reunite with their Vulcan ancestors, Spock and his students are taken hostage by an enemy Romulan spy, and it is up to Picard, with some help from Scott and McCoy, to effect a rescue.
Grief-stricken at the mysterious death of counsellor Deanna Troi, with whom he once enjoyed a tempestuous affair on her planet of Betazed, Commander Riker journeys across time to fight Imzadi, one of her closest friends.
A sequel to Star Trek: Generations follows a deadly alliance between the Borg and Romulan Empire in which their key weapon becomes the miraculously resurrected Captain James T. Kirk, and the crew of the Enterprise is called together in an ultimate battle.
Ship of the Line
by Diane Carey
When the Enterprise is seized by a hate-crazed Klingon Commander, Captain Picard interrupts high-level negotiations to free Federation prisoners of war to ally himself with his former Cardassian torturer.
Star Trek the Motion Picture
by Gene Roddenberry
The historic 5-year mission of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is over. But when three Klingon starships are destroyed by a massive machine/organism called the V'Ger, the Enterprise is refitted and the crew is asked to investigate.
Vulcan's Forge
by Josepha Sherman
While the rest of the Enterprise crew struggles to recover from the death of James Kirk, a bereft Spock is faces the most difficult choice of his career when an old enemy from his childhood resurfaces with a plan that may destroy a world.
Star Wars
As Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo struggle to help the refugees flooding in to the planet Duro from the Rim worlds invaded by the horrific Yuushan Vong aliens, Jacen Solo must face a crisis of conscience over how to use the Force as a tool for good while battling the evil invaders who have now set their sights on Duro.
Courtship of Princess Leia
by Dave Wolverton
Han Solo confronts a new rival for Princess Leia's affections in the person of Prince Isolder, who will ally the sixty-three high-tech worlds of the Hapes Consortium with the New Republic, if Leia will marry him.
Heir to the Empire
by Timothy Zahn
Five years after they defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting children, and Luke is a Jedi knight, and all are unaware that the last of the Emperor's warlords plan to reclaim the empire.
Specter of the Past
by Timothy Zahn
With the Empire on the brink of total collapse, the New Republic, an awkward confederation of many races and cultures, confronts its own problems as age-old animosities threaten to unravel the alliance, with the help of old enemies and ambitious new threats.
Star Wars Episode 1: the Phantom Menace
by Terry Brooks
Two Jedi peace ambassadors are sent to investigate the Trade Federation blockade of Naboo and later meet Anakin Skywalker, a young slave living on Tatooine, whom they believe to be a good candidate for Jedi training.
Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones
by R.A. Salvatore
Nineteen-year-old Anakin Skywalker is torn between his personal dreams and his Jedi responsibilities, while he and his master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, face a world of danger and intrigue that threatens to destroy the Republic.
Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith
by Matthew Woodring Stover
Follows Anakin Skywalker as he struggles with his duty as a Jedi Knight and his role as the secret husband of Senator Padme Amidala, and chronicles the creation of Darth Vader and the birth of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia Organa.
Star Wars Survivor's Quest
by Timothy Zahn
Three years after his marriage to Mara Jade, Luke receives word from the mysterious Chiss that the remains of the legendary Outbound Flight Project have been found, a discovery that prompts Luke and Mara to join an unlikely team of adventurers on an expedition into the Unknown Regions.
When Alliance forces intercept a Bakuran message to the Emperor pleading for help, Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, and Han Solo travel to the far-flung Imperial world and encounter its cold-blooded reptilian invaders.
Dune
Opposing forces struggle for control of the universe when the archenemy of the cosmic emperor is banished to a barren world where savages fight for water.
Dune: The Bulterian Jihad
by Brian Herbert
A Dune prequel portrays the "Butlerian jihad" against technology, a background story vital to the Dune universe.
Dune: House Atreides
by Brian Herbert
A prequel to Frank Herbert's science fiction novel, "Dune," journeys back to the planet Arrakis to visit the extraordinary desert world decades before Paul Atreides arrives to change the history of the universe.
Hunters of Dune
by Brian Herbert
A group of refugees escapes on a ship into the uncharted reaches of the galaxy, seeking safety with the assistance of Paul Muad'Dib and Lady Jessica, revived with the help of genetic technology, while avoiding the diabolical traps of the Enemy.
Space, Exploration, and Adventure
Acorna: the Unicorn Girl
by Anne McCaffrey
A mysterious and magical "unicorn girl" is saved from the prisons of scientists and bureaucrats, only to find herself threatened by a man known as "the Piper," whose trade is child slave labor.
Apocalypse Troll
by David Weber
Sailing the Atlantic, Richard Ashton witnesses a fleet of UFOs descend to battle a Navy carrier group, leaving behind a seemingly human, attractive alien with an implacable foe.
When her world is destroyed by planet pirates and her family is slaughtered, former commando leader Alicia DeVries turns pirate herself, steals a cutting-edge ship from the Empire, and launches a campaign to seek revenge on those responsible.
Excalibur Alternative
by David Weber
Lying helpless during a raging storm in the North Sea, a fleet of medieval ships finds sudden rescue in the arrival of a powerful group of aliens, who offer salvation in exchange for eternal bondage fighting as star soldiers.
The Gods Themselves
by Isaac Asimov
The opening of a gate to another universe brings both a new source of energy and a perilous threat to the Sun, and Peter Lamont, a young scientist, must save Earth.
The vast Union of Arcana has expanded its wealth and power by laying claim to one uninhabited planet after another through the portals linking parallel universes, until they discover a new portal that leads to another human society, Sharona, which has also been exploring the Multiverse and is dedicated to science rather than to magic.
The development of robot technology to a state of perfection by future civilizations is explored in nine science fiction stories.
Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury
The tranquility of Mars is disrupted by the earthmen who have come to conquer space, colonize the planet, and escape a doomed Earth.
Powers That Be
by Anne McCaffrey
While convalescing on the icy planet of Petaybee, Major Yanaba Maddock discovers that something odd--and maybe something wonderful--is happening on her new home world.
Prelude to Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
To Emperor Cleon I, the science of psychohistory seems to offer the opportunity to predict and direct the course of his Galactic Empire. To Hari Seldon, discoverer of the still theoretical science, it becomes a nightmare as the young historian becomes the most wanted man in the colonized universe.
Two explorers--one of information and the other of space--face the collapse of galactic civilization, and their only hope is that the explorer of information, Merinda Neskat, can face up to her past and find the answers civilization needs.
Hurtled back in time into the Thirty Years War by an unknown force, Mike Stearns and his fellow West Virginia coal miners join forces with the king of Sweden to form the Confederated Principalities of Europe and take on the scheming Cardinal Richelieu as they struggle to rescue Mike's wife from war-torn Amsterdam and his sister from the Tower of London.