Alex Garland
1) The beach
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A young backpacker in Thailand searching for something different learns of the existence of an idyllic island which is not even on the map. The novel describes his jungle journey to reach the island where he discovers a secret commune of international drifters living off fish and pot. The man's arrival coincides with growing tension between factions, leading to the commune's violent demise. A first novel.
2) The coma
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When Carl awakens from a coma after being attacked on a subway train, life around him feels unfamiliar, even strange. He arrives at his best friend's house without remembering how he got there; he seems to be having an affair with his secretary, which is pleasant but surprising. He starts to notice distortions in his experience, strange leaps in his perception of time. Is he truly reacting with the outside world, he wonders, or might he be terribly...
3) Ex machina
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan intensifies"--...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"An intricately woven, suspenseful novel of psychological and political intrigue, The Tesseract follows the interlocking fates of three sets of characters in the Philippines: gangsters in a chase through the streets of Manila; a middle-class mother putting her children to bed in the suburbs and remembering her first love; and a couple of street kids and the wealthy psychiatrist who is studying their dreams. Alex Garland demonstrates the range of his...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors, they embrace their fleeting chance to live and love.
6) Annihilation
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Biologist and former soldier Lena is shocked when her missing husband comes home near death from a top-secret mission into The Shimmer, a mysterious quarantine zone from which no one has ever returned. Now, Lena and her elite team must enter a beautiful, deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures, to discover how to stop the growing phenomenon that threatens all life on Earth." --
7) Dredd
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The America of the post-apocalyptic future is an irradiated wasteland, a vast ultraviolent world where criminals control the mean city streets. Ultimate law enforcers like Dredd ... and his new partner, Anderson ... are Judges--the only force battling for justice. Dispatched by the central authority, the Judges' target is Ma-Ma ... a ruthless boss bent on expanding her criminal empire through sales of Slo-mo, a dangerous reality-altering drug"--Container....
8) The beach
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Adventurer Richard has found heaven on earth when he finds a secret beach with a sexy woman -- but nothing is as it seems.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An infirmary patient wakes up from a coma to an empty room ... in a vacant hospital ... in a deserted city. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. Now a handful of survivors must fight to stay alive, unaware that the worst is yet to come.
10) Men
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of her ex-husband's passing, a woman takes a solo vacation to the English countryside."--
11) Ex machina
Series
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan...
12) Sunshine
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all.
13) The tesseract
Publisher
Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Four people's paths mysteriously cross at a dilapidated Bangkok hotel. A drug mule falls into an intensive state of paranoia while he is holding a package from a local mafia boss. In the hotel lobby, a British psychologist suffering from the trauma of losing her son, checks in. A rising mafia boss, having plundered drugs from a rival crime family, races in a car to meet the drug mule in his hotel room. Showered by a barrage of bullets, a female assassin...
14) 28 days later
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jim is an infirmary patient who wakes up from a coma to find an empty room, in a vacant hospital, in the deserted city of London. A powerful virus, which locks victims into a permanent state of murderous rage, has transformed the world around him into a seemingly desolate wasteland. He runs into a mob of crazed plague victims. He gradually finds other still-human survivors with whom he heads off across the abandoned countryside to find the source...
15) Never let me go
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Some sexuality and nudity.
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors, they embrace their fleeting chance to live and love. Based on the acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. Bonus features included.
Publisher
Barrington Public Library
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ex Machina: Caleb, a 24-year-old coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb,...