Select language, opens an overlay
0 messages from the library
  • General Recommendations
  • Staff-Created List

Sci-fi that Puts the Sci in Fi

New Capital City Press featured writer Premee Mohamed shares some of her favourite science fiction novels that don't shy away from the science.

User from Edmonton Public Library

18 items

  • The disastrous side of geology, meterology, hydrology, and ecology. Apocalypse from below rather than above. [Also available as an eBook and eAudiobook.]
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Orbit, 2015. — JEM
  • Barsk

    the Elephants' Graveyard

    Schoen, Lawrence M.
    I cannot resist a book that provides a scientific, rather than a magical, explanation for talking animals.
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Tor, 2015. — SCH
  • Any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic. Incredibly imaginative far-future space opera that straddles the dividing line. [Also available as a book and eAudiobook.]
    eBook, 2016Rebellion Publishing Ltd, 2016
  • When you tire of aliens that are just humans painted blue, this book features truly alien aliens that will make you rethink human language and human nature. [Also available as an eBook and eAudiobook.]
    Book, 2011New York : Del Rey, [2011] — MIE
  • eBook, 2011Random House Worlds, 2011
  • A space colony book but also a colony in space book. Fascinating technology and life forms.
    eBook, 2017Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017
  • A sci-fi book with scientists at its core, responding to the imminent extinction of humanity with... science. [Also available as an eBook.]
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Tor, 2018. — KOW
  • A layered, complicated novel with intensely researched science from several fields that never detracts from the story but instead adding to the plot. [Also available as a book and eBook.]
    eAudiobook, 2014Macmillan Audio, 2014
  • Book, 2014New York : Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book, [2014] — LIU
  • An alien invasion book with well-researched alien mindsets. Pushes the limits of biology, psychology, and reproductive technology.
    eBook, 2012Open Road Media, 2012
  • When else have sapient spiders been portrayed in sci-fi with such careful research and analysis? [Also available as an eBook.]
    Book, 2016London : Pan Books, 2016. — TCH