Outta-This-World Science Fiction for Teens
compiled 8-27-05

Hidden Empire by Kevin Anderson
YA SF/FAN ANDE
In our galaxy's distant future, alien technology allows humans to turn a supergiant planet into a small sun, thereby creating a new solar system in which humans can live. But when the device is tried for the first time, it awakens the wrath of an unknown alien race, and a galaxy-spanning war that threatens all life begins. First in the Saga of Seven Suns series.

The Princess of Neptune by Quentin Dodd
YA SF/FAN DODD
Theora Theremin and her brother Verbert find themselves whisked from the shores of hometown Lake Philodendron to an intergalactic beauty contest on Neptune.

Eager by Helen Fox
YA SF/FAN FOX
Unlike Grumps, their old-fashioned robot, the Bell family's new robot, Eager, is programmed to not merely obey but to question, reason, and exercise free will.

Taylor Five by Anne Halam
YA FIC HALA
Fourteen-year-old Taylor is still dealing with the fact that she is a clone produced by the same company that funds the Orangutan Reserve which is her home on the island of Borneo, when the Reserve is attacked and she flees with her younger brother and Uncle, the Reserve's mascot.

The New World Order by Ben Jeapes
YA SF/FAN JEAP
Having ended England's Civil War between the Roundheads and the Royalists in 1645, the Overlord of the Holekhor, a race from another world, and his half-English son question the decision to colonize the island and convert the English people to a faith characterized by witches and myriad gods.

The Xenocide Mission by Ben Jeapes
YA SF/FAN JEAP
In a far-distant solar system, Lieutenant Joel Gilmore and his space observation team are suddenly attacked by the very aliens they were sent to watch.

The Secret Under My Skin by Janet Elizabeth McNaughton
YA SF/FAN MCNA
In the year 2368, humans exist under dire environmental conditions and one young woman, rescued from a work camp and chosen for a special duty, uses her love of learning to discover the truth about the planet's future and her own dark past.

New skies : an anthology of today's science fiction, edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
YA SF/FAN NEW
17 stories starring aliens and dimensions beyond the 3-D world.

Maximum Ride by James Patterson
YA FIC PATT
After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "birdkids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.

Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
YA SF/FAN REEV
In the distant future, when cities move about and consume smaller towns, a fifteen-year-old apprentice is pushed out of London by the man he most admires and must seek answers in the perilous Out-Country, aided by one girl and the memory of another. First in the Hungry City Chronicles.

Truesight by David Stahler
YA SF/FAN STAH
Living on a planet called Harmony where everyone has been genetically altered to be blind, Jacob is unsure of what to do with the changes that come when all of sudden he develops sight.

The Last Universe by William Sleator
YA SF/FAN SLEA
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.

The Big Empty by J.B. Stephens
YA SF/FAN STEP
After half of the world's population is killed by a plague, seven teenagers seek a better life in a nightmarish future by deciphering coded messages and trying to avoid the Slashers. First in The Big Empty series.

Future Eden: a brief history of next time by Colin Thompson
YA SF/FAN THOM
In 2287, after the collapse of civilization, twenty-two-year-old Jay and his alien chicken Ethel are determined to save the remainder of humanity.

Double Helix by Nancy Werlin
YA FIC WERL
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.

Be More Chill by Ned Vizzini
YA FIC VIZZ
Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
YA SF/FAN WEST
Tally lives in a world where everyone is ugly until they turn 16; at that point everyone is surgically altered to a scientifically-based version of pretty. But what if you think you look fine the way you are?