Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy
2022 Adult Reading Challenge! May
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2022/05/04/2022-adult-reading-challenge-may/
DISCOVER DIFFERENT GENRES! FIND NEW AUTHORS! WIN PRIZES! Join us for a fun book challenge throughout 2022! Sign up and keep track via Beanstack. If you’ve participated in any of our recent summer or winter reading challenges, you’re all set to go...
Be Prepared. Read More SciFi.
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2020/04/20/be-prepared-read-more-scifi/
Do you feel like you’re living in a SciFi novel?? Now might be a great time to read or listen to some Science Fiction while you’re staying home and staying safe. Here are a few suggestions that you can download from Overdrive with your...
Escape Into a Fantasy With a Digital Book
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2020/04/08/escape-into-a-fantasy-with-a-digital-book/
Escape into a Fantasy novel while you’re staying home and staying safe. Here are some of the most popular digital titles, both e-books and audio books, which you can download from Overdrive with your Fairfield Public Library card. THE CITY OF BRASS By S....
Every Heart a Doorway
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2017/11/14/every-heart-a-doorway/
Title: Every Heart a Doorway Author: Seanan McGuire Publisher: Tor, April 2016 Summary/Review: If you have always wanted to try a Fantasy novel but did not know where to start, you might like to try EVERY HEART A DOORWAY, the first installment in the Wayward...
The Martian
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/12/20/the-martian/
Title: The Martian Author: Andy Weir Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, 2011 Summary/Review: To understand why you will enjoy this novel let’s start with the author. Andy Weir was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15. He is a self-described...
Queen of the Tearling
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/09/10/queen-of-the-tearling/
Title: The Queen of the Tearling Author: Erika Johansen Publisher: HarperCollins, 2014 Summary / Review: On Kelsea’s 19th birthday, nine of the Queen’s Guard arrive at the remote cottage that has been her home to escort her to New London and her new life as Queen of...
Lexicon
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/09/16/lexicon/
Title: Lexicon Author: Max Barry Publisher: Penguin Press, 2013 Summary/Review: “Sticks and Stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me” is basically a big, fat lie in the world of Max Barry’s Lexicon. If a Poet tells you to go...
The Fear Index
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/02/14/the-fear-index/
Title: The Fear Index Author: Robert Harris Publisher: Knopf, 2012 Summary/Review: If you like to read about the stock market,financial markets worldwide, and are concerned about the gyrations in the markets caused by computers using mathematical formulas for lightning fast trades (Remember the flash...
After the Fall Before the Fall During the Fall
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/10/25/after-the-fall-before-the-fall-during-the-fall/
Title: After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall Author: Nancy Kress Publisher: Tachyon, April 2012 Summary/Review: In 2035, the Earth as we know it is no more. An alien attack by the mysterious ‘Tesslies’ has devastated the planet, transforming it into a poisoned...
The Devil’s Alphabet
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/08/10/the-devils-alphabet/
Title: The Devil’s Alphabet Author: Daryl Gregory Publisher: Random House, November 2009 Summary: Paxton Martin, a preacher’s son, is returning to his hometown of Switchcreek, TN, for the funeral of a childhood friend. Pax left Switchcreek 12 years ago, soon after an outbreak of Transcription...