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1381) A wrinkle in time
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Although he has been missing for several years and the entire town thinks her father has abandoned her family, Meg steadfastly believes the best and protects her younger brother, Charles Wallace, from the brunt of the rumors and taunting. It is he, however, who convinces her to join him, the school sports star Calvin, and three unusual women on an interplanetary voyage to rescue their father from a vast evil.
1382) 2001, a space odyssey
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future.
1383) Cloud atlas
Pub. Date
2013
Description
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the near future.
1384) Interstellar
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
The stand: The U.S. government denies that there's a problem when the horrifying deaths begin, but within a few days, only one percent of the world's population is left alive after a deadly virus escapes from a California research lab. The shattered remnants of humanity face the end of civilization and the beginning of the ultimate battle between good and evil.
The Langoliers:...
1387) Akira
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons laying dormant within his subconscious.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Blade Runner 2049: A young blade runner's discovery of a long buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
Blade Runner: the final cut: In a future Los Angeles, Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a...
1390) Riddick
Pub. Date
2014
Description
A dangerous, escaped convict wanted by every bounty hunter in the known galaxy, Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he's encountered. The only way off is for him to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty. With time running out...
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Captain America teams with the Black Widow and a new ally, the Falcon, in a fight for the future of mankind. Following the cataclysmic events in New York with the Avengers, Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, is living quietly in Washington, D.C., and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the entire world at risk. As the conspiracy...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
After headstrong Luke nearly delivers the good guys into Palpatine's clutches, Master Yoda and the ghost of Obi-Wan Kenobi unearth the Holocrons "last remnants of the secrets of the Jedi" to further Luke's training. But Darth Vader also seeks the Holocrons, and he'll stop at nothing to get to them first! Meanwhile, courageous superclone Jek-14 comes out of retirement to help bolster the Rebels.
1393) Napping princess
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Three days before the opening of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Kokone Morikawa's father is arrested for stealing technology and Kokone and her childhood friend Morio must work together--and rely on Kokone's connection to a dream-world called Heartland--to save him.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
First published more than fifty years ago, Pierre Boulle’s chilling novel launched one of the greatest science fiction sagas in motion picture history.
In the not-too-distant future, three astronauts land on what appears to be a planet just like Earth, with lush forests, a temperate climate, and breathable air. But while it appears to be a paradise, nothing is what it seems.
They soon discover the terrifying truth: On this world humans are savage...