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Celestial Journeys

Titan by Stephen Baxter
Newly discovered life on Saturn's moon, Titan, could mean renewal for NASA. What risks is Paula Benacerraf willing to take in the name of exploration? Could a one-way trip through our solar system be human kind's greatest adventure?

Stardust by Neil Gaiman
Tristan lives in Wall, a Victorian village at the boundary between the English countryside and the land of Faerie. Once every nine years humans may enter Faerie to attend an enchanted fair. Tristan is slipped through the gate to retrieve for his love a star he saw tumble from the sky and is propelled into a world strange beyond imagination.

Dark Cities Underground by Lisa Goldstein
Ruth Berry's assignment is to interview Jeremy Jones, who as a child, was featured in a series of children's books written by his mother. The adventures of Jeremy in Neverwas, although considered classic fantasy, were in fact true. Ruth and Jeremy embark on a mysterious and exotic adventure revisiting the dangerous underworld.

Second Angel by Philip Kerr
In the year 2069, a virus known as P2 has infected most of the population. The only cure is "clean blood" that has become more valuable than gold. Dana Dallas's infant daughter becomes critically infected with P2. In his quest for "clean blood," Dana becomes the enemy of very dangerous people.

A Fisherman of the Inland Sea: Science Fiction Stories by Ursula LeGuin
In this collection of short stories, LeGuin once more manifests the influence of her parent's folkloric and anthropological scholarship. This is a collection for the science fiction reader who enjoys variety, wit, intelligence, and subtlety in writing.

Nimisha's Ship by Anne McCaffrey
Nimisha grows up on the planet, Vega, in a stultifying atmosphere of First Families and social stratification. As engineer on her father's spaceship enterprise, her first voyage finds her ship caught in a wormhole that thrusts them into an entirely different realm.

Winter Rose by Patricia McKillip
A romantic fantasy about a young woman's strong "otherworldly" pull that is intensified by the arrival of handsome, unattached Corbet (long lost heir of the cursed Lynn Hall) and the intense, isolating and seemingly endless winter.

Shadow of Albion by Andre Norton
Orphaned Sarah Cunningham leaves Baltimore in 1805 for England and distant relatives. Lady Sarah Roxbury works powerful magic on her deathbed resulting in Sarah finding herself in a universe-next-door where America is still a colony. Court intrigue, scandal, romance and magic makes this historical fantasy.

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Ned Henry has been charged with the task of finding the Bishop's Bird Stump to provide an air of authenticity to the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral. Ned "jumps" back and forth through time and spends a delightful summer in 1888 England.