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Short Story Collections
Tomorrowland : 10 Stories About the Future
edited by Michael Cart
James Cross Giblin, Katherin Paterson, Gloria Skurzynski,
Rodman Philbrick, Jon Scieszka, Ron Koertge, Tor Seidler
and others explore the possibility the future holds.
2041 : Twelve Short Stories About the Future
edited by Jane Yolen
Bruce Coville, Connie Willis, Anne McCaffrey, Kara Kalkey,
Patricia McKillip and others share their visions of the future.
Back of Beyond : Stories
Sarah Ellis
12 intriguing short stories about the supernatural.
Second Sight : Stories for a New Millenium
edited by Michael Green
What lies on the other side of tomorrow? These 8 short stories
by Madeleine L'Engle, Richard Peck, Avi, Natalie Babbit,
Rita Williams-Garcia, Janet Taylor Lisle, Nancy Springer
and Michael Cadnum answer the question.
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The Night Room by E.M.
Goldman
What if you could see into your future. When Ira gets an opportunity to visit the future at his 10 year high school
reunion, he discovers that one of his classmates will not be there. Can Ira help keep this vision of the future
from coming true?
The Parable of the Sower
by Octavia Butler
Lauren Olamina is an empath - she can feel the pain of others. In the year 2055 she must emerge from hiding to
lead a band of followers to a new hope.
Welcome to the Ark
by Stephanie S. Tolan
In a violent near future 4 teenagers, 2 girls and 2 boys, participate in an experiment which may be the only hope
for the future of Earth.
Shade's Children
by Garth Nix
No child is allowed to live past the age 14, their brains and muscles are harvested to make killing machines. Shade
is their only hope of survival, or is he?
The Giver by Lois
Lowry
No crime. No disease. No choices. Can Jonas pay the price for living in a perfect world?
The Cure by Sonia
Levitin
Deviant. Defiant. Dangerous. Gemm 16884 does not conform and his only choice is to undergo the mysterious and painful
cure.
Ender's Game by Orson
Scott Card
The Earth is at war with an alien race. Is Ender our only hope?
The Starlight Crystal
by Christopher Pike
200 years into the future, Paige Christian is given the chance of a lifetime - to join those on the starship Traveler.
Traveling at lightspeed as they orbit the Earth, Paige must fight for her own survival as she witnesses tragedy
occur on Earth.
This Place Has No Atmosphere
by Paula Danzinger
Welcome to the year 2057, where we live in malls and take classes in ESP. Aurora's family is moving to the moon.
How can she find a boyfriend in a place with only 750 people?
Yanked by Nancy Kress
It is the year 2399 and the future is in need of heroes. They must reach back in time to find them. What if they
came for you? Book 1 in David Brin's Out of Time series.
Book 2 : Tiger in the Sky by Sheila Finch
Book 3 : The Game of Worlds by Roger MacBride Allen
To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Connie Willis
Ned Henry has been travelling back and forth from the 21st century to the 1940s to try and restore the Coventry
Cathedral. He is in desperate need of a break, but he must prevent the altering of history first. And that's to
say nothing of the dog.
Found by June Oldham
Four orphaned children in a bizarre future find an abandoned baby. Can they protect it when they can barely survive
on their own?
The Transall Saga
by Gary Paulsen
Mark is transported by a blue light to a primitive seeming world where he is enslaved by warring tribes
Armageddon Summer
by Jane Yolen and Bruce Coville
In the year 2000, on July 27th, the world will end in fire. Will Jed and Marina be among the survivors?
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Aliens try to destroy the Earth in order to put an intergalactic freeway in its place.
Z for Zechariah by
Robert C. O'Brien
A young girl things that she is the only survival after the nuclear holocaust, until she sees smoke in the distance.
The Postman by David
Brin
In a world torn apart by a war that has left few survivors, a man puts on a U.S. Postman's uniform and becomes
a source of hope.
The Stand by Stephen
King
A flu virus wipes out most of the population, and those that remain must stand and fight the final battle between
good and evil.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Years after the Simplification, a nuclear holocaust, an artifact is found from the Saint Leibowitz that reads,
"Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels - bring home for Emma." Can these words bring hope to a dying
world?
Countdown : The Series
by Daniel Parker
In 24 hours 6 billion people die. The only people left are teenagers.
Last on Earth : The Series
by Marilyn Kaye
25 teenagers leave their underground geometry class to discover that they are the last people on Earth.
#1 The Vanishing
#2 The Convergence
#3 The Return
Wyrm by Mark Fabi
If computer expert Michael Arcangelo can't find and defeat the twisted mind that created the GoodKnight virus,
humanity will discover that the end of the world is tryly here.
The Hammer of God
by Arthur C. Clarke
In the year 2110 a meteor is plummeting towards Earth that could annihilate all of civilization.
How I Spent My Last Night on Earth by Tod Strasser
While "Legs" is busy studying hard for a Chinese test, the Internet is announcing the end of the world
in less than 24 hours thanks to a large meteor headed straight our way. How will the students at Time Zone High
spend their last night on Earth?
