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This is a new note on an old page. The Sci Fi Book Store now serves as a book list with annotations for lesson topics each book can enrich. For lessons and essays on using science fiction to teach and for comments on my favorites, please remember that I am continuously reading more! Read the comments below to get an idea of why the books in the book store are considered suitable for youth. Also, the ebook store and the video store each include lists of media and media sources that have been screened and are frequently updated. I make no effort to include books/media published as YA/rated for youth unless I have read/watched and enjoyed it. Librarians and publishers have already screened these. My purpose is to locate the works not normally listed for youth and to share the works that I would use in my classrooms. Since I teach science, the list is skewed towards science concepts, but there is plenty of ethics and sociology in the mix. Eventually, I will make a list that can be printed out. That list will be added to the sci fi essays list when it becomes available. Watch for it on News and Views and Valerie's Memos. Add your favorites to any of the lists with a message in the forum, blog, or an email. Be sure to tell us if you want to subscribe to our newsletter.

 

This page is a near duplicate of the correctly spelled url. Locating the page with the misspelled link seemed daunting, so I am keeping this page posted also. Also, being an older page, it is not written using xhtml and CSS as the newer pages are. Do you like the newer design? See the Sci Fi Memes and Myths essay for a comparison.

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A Note to Teachers, Students, and Parents

All of the books on this list have been read by myself or another teacher and have been judged to be appropriate for juvenile readers.  Books with the occasional mild profanity, and/or violence (Is violence ever mild?) are marked with red explanations so that you can decide whether to suggest the book to an older student.  The same with sex, which in all cases is obliquely referred to, not described.  However, sometimes a romantic relationship includes sex out of marriage.  In this case, the red comment will alert you.  I have read and enjoyed the majority of these personally.  If you have any doubts about recommending books to your students, check with your school librarian to see if these conditions of screening the books are adequate.  None of these books are any more explicit in profanity, sex or violence than are the movies portraying the books written by John Griffith or Tom Clancy.

The above paragraph expresses the policy I used to choose the books, and then the software and videos that I included in my various stores on this site. The book list became the Science Fiction Book Store and the eBook Store Since Amazon.com is a valuable source of information in terms of isbn, publisher, and availability, I started using links through them to get information about the books. I expanded the store's value by giving information about concepts that the books can be used to teach and links to essays and lessons for teaching with science fiction. Since then, I have included other book merchants to give you a range of prices and access to textbooks. I now offer magazines, comics, movies and documentaries, software, toys, and more, all "chosen with teaching in mind."

 

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Elizabeth Moon (a bit violent, but stirring adventure and moral heros.)
Her Deed of Paksenarrion & Rules of Engagement are great.
James White, especially the Sector General Series
David Weber (some are bit violent, but stirring adventure and moral heros.)
Greg Bear
Sharon Lee and Steve, especially the ones in the Liaden Universe

Isaac Asimov

Robert Heinlein: Jumvenile books only-Not Methusela's Children. or The Cat thatWalks through Walls, but those written earlier are great.

Paul Anderson

Larry Niven

James Herbert, especially Dune

A.C. Crispin

David Brin, especially

many others to come

   
   

 

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