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Star Wars Day
Are you a fan of Star Wars? Then today is your day, Happy Star Wars day! To celebrate why not come into the library and get one of our Star Wars novels or movie guides, or even borrow one of the movies from us. Check out what we have.
For those who know nothing about Star Wars watch this video where someone who has no idea about Star Wars will give you all the details.
The fight has begun
For anyone who has heard of Random House's SUVUDU Cage Match, the fight is once again on for 2012.
Cage matches pit characters from your favourite fantasy and sci-fi novels against each other in theoretical battles to the death. So visit the SUVUDU web site and have a look through the round 1 battles, read the random house predictions and cast your vote. Remember without you your favourite character might not make it out alive.
Ship Breaker
Paolo Bacigalupi
I picked up Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi at last year’s Peruse 100 prize giving and I am immensely glad I did. Ship Breaker is set in a dystopian future where our current reckless abuse of the environment has finely taken its toll. The seas have risen and wiped out entire cites and the occasional country and massively destructive storms now roam all over America’s Gulf Coast region where thousands live in shanty towns just trying to eke out a living dismantling grounded oil tankers.
Mortal Engines
Philip Reeve
This is a steampunk book. People have lost technology in the 60 minute war and now only have steam technology and are constantly trying to find old tech. The main problem is the Earth running out of resources and it’s a city eat city world and London needs to feed. After finding enough old tech to reproduce a weapon from the 60 minute war, they decide to attack the defence wall of the anti tractionists, who have trees and minerals and coal to dig up and use as fuel and to upgrade the city.
Crossed
Ally Condie
Crossed is the second in the Matched series by Ally Condie. It is set in the future where the “society” has taken over. Everyone lives until his or her 80th birthday, your spouse is chosen for you and even your food is chosen by the society to ensure you maintain a healthy weight and good nutrition. It seems like a utopia yet underneath it all it is a dystopia.
