This year we decided our theme in the Library should tie in
with the following week of STEM based activities around the school so we chose Science-Fiction
Heroes and Villains! Fertile ground for us as we all have secret and not so
secret penchants for certain elements of this vast and sprawling genre.
What we found is that you lot do too. Even if you think
sci-fi is not your thing it often turns out that you have already read some and
that bits of it actually are your thing!
Despite the B-movie style decorations in the Library (which
we fully defend as cool) sci-fi is not all about space, aliens and robots.
Think how science effects our everyday life right now and then think of it
expanding beyond your wildest dreams. That is the limit of sci-fi (i.e. there
isn’t one). So if you've ever read such popular YA titles as Thirteen, The Hunger Games, Divergent, Unwind, A Wrinkle in Time or Uglies you are on board.
We also devised a quick game for people who really are fans
of Science -Fiction. The display is still up in the Library if you want to test
your knowledge. Just match the hero to the villain and both characters to their
respective sci-fi novels (all of which we have in the Library, by the way)
On this note, we have a wonderfully eclectic mix of the SF Masterworks
series. With diverse dystopian themes from climate change, identity, global
economies, corporate greed, crime and punishment and human weakness all the way to your
classic epic space opera, we promise there is something to get anyone pondering the universe.
And of course, if fiction simply is not your thing at all,
there is always science non-fiction (where it all starts) of which we have a
growing array for you to choose from. Popular science, experiments, myth
busters and theories; It’s all here! Some of our favourites are:
Happy British Science Week!