100 Scope Notes
Tag: science fiction
Undergrowth | Preview
Giant robots, environmental crises, and mental health come together in this action-packed sci-fi manga with a serious undertone.
Review: Red Scare
Young readers who pick up this book won't know much about the red scare. In NYC it’s not part of the social studies curriculum until 8th grade if they even get that far.
Hilo, vols. 1-6 | Series Review
Esther brought the first six volumes of Hilo home to review, but her kids kept taking them to read. Is there a better endorsement than that?
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Review: ‘Animorphs Graphix #1: The Invasion’
Following the success of the Baby-Sitters Club books, Graphix turns another classic chapter book series into a comic with their first Animorphs graphic novel.
Review: Mech Cadet Yu
Though I read these volumes out of order, I really enjoyed the stories. This series is quite different than my “normal” reading, but I’m always thrilled when I can enjoy a title that will be a perfect fit for the boys who come to the library. (And girls too… But this will be an easy sell to the boys.)
Review: ‘Sanity & Tallulah’
Clever girls on a space station seek to rescue and redeem the reputation of their illegal pet, a three-headed kitten.
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YALSA GGNT Top Ten Manga: Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin Volume 1-3
Mankind has moved out into space, populating huge colonies called Sides that have orbited Earth for over half a century. In the year 0079 Universal Century, one such colony, Side 3, calling itself the Principality of Zeon, declared independence from the Earth Federation, and war broke out. In just over a month, the fighting killed […]
YALSA GGNT Top Ten Manga: Knights of Sidonia Volume 1-2
Ten centuries have passed since the Earth and its solar system was destroyed by the Gauna, a massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient life form. Mankind escaped out into space, in massive seed ships that carry the remnants of humanity who search for a new planet to call home, without the threat of the Gauna […]
Review | Tales of the S.S. Junky Star
Tales of the S.S. Junky Star By the Fillbach Brothers First Comics; $6.99 Matthew and Shawn Fillbach have been making various kinds of science fiction comics for a while, from alien invasions (an oversimplified description that doesn’t do justice to the craziness of Maxwell Strangewell) to werewolves fighting vampires on the moon. They’re best known […]
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