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One level down  by Mary G. (Mary Gloria) Thompson

One level down

Mary G. (Mary Gloria) Thompson

"Trapped in a child's body, a resourceful woman risks death by deletion from a simulated world... Ella is the oldest five-year-old in the universe. For fifty-eight years, the founder of a simulated colony-planet has forced her to pretend to be his daughter....

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The beauty of the end  by Lauren Stienstra

The beauty of the end

Lauren Stienstra

"In this provocative work of speculative fiction, two sisters navigate the complex moral terrain of reproductive ethics, individual freedoms, and society's duty to a future facing imminent extinction. Charlie Tannehill and her twin sister, Maggie, are just...

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When we were real  by Daryl Gregory

When we were real

Daryl Gregory

"JP and Dulin have been the best of friends for decades. When JP finds out his cancer has aggressively returned, Dulin decides it's the perfect time for one last adventure: a week-long bus tour of North America's Impossibles, the physics-defying glitches and...

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Diviner's bow  by Sharon Lee

Diviner's bow

Sharon Lee

"A world divided cannot stand. A people divided cannot thrive. The Oracle has Seen the end of Civilization, and the end of the Haosa, too. Reactions to this are mixed. On the one hand, foresight is a notoriously erratic Gift. On the other, can Civilization -...

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The ephemera collector  by Stacy Nathaniel Jackson

The ephemera collector

Stacy Nathaniel Jackson

"The year is 2035, and Los Angeles County is awash in a tangelo haze of wildfire smoke. Xandria Anastasia Brown spends her days deep in the archives of the Huntington Library as the curator of African American Ephemera and associate curator of American...

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Transmentation transience  by Darkly Lem

Transmentation transience

Darkly Lem

Over thousands of years and countless worlds, societies of interdimensional travelers arose. When a routine training mission goes wrong, two competing societies are thrust into a confrontation.

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The cure  by Eve Smith

The cure

Eve Smith

"Ruth is a law-abiding elder, working out her national service, but she has secrets. Her tireless research into the disease that killed her young daughter had an unexpected outcome: the discovery of a vaccine against old age. Just one jab a year reverses your...

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Sleeper beach  by Nick Harkaway

Sleeper beach

Nick Harkaway

"Cal Sounder is struggling to adapt to life as a Titan, one of society's medically-enhanced elites. When he gets a call to say that an unknown woman has washed up dead in a faded seaside down, he dives back into his former role as a detective. Intriguingly,...

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The expanded Earth  by Mikey Please

The expanded Earth

Mikey Please

"One sunny Sunday, without warning, humankind is reduced to the height of a handspan - an unsightly transformation as potentially fatal as it is inconvenient. On a remote coastal path, Giles awakes in his new body to discover a world reshaped and magnified...

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City of All Seasons  by Oliver K. Langmead

City of All Seasons

Oliver K. Langmead

"Welcome to Jamie Pike's Fairharbour, a city stuck in perpetual winter, its windows and doorways bricked shut to keep out the freezing cold, its residents striving to survive in the arctic conditions. Welcome to Esther Pike's Fairharbour, a city stuck in...

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Where the axe is buried  by Ray Nayler

Where the axe is buried

Ray Nayler

"All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end. In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on...

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The Icarus coda  by Timothy Zahn

The Icarus coda

Timothy Zahn

"For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene have worked for the ultra-secret Icarus Group, hunting for the mysterious Icari teleportation portals so valued by the Commonwealth. But their job has now come to a wrenching end. The two of them are...

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When the moon hits your eye  by John Scalzi

When the moon hits your eye

John Scalzi

"The moon has turned into cheese. Now humanity has to deal with it. For some it's an opportunity. For others it's a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and...

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Inversions  by Iain Banks

Inversions

Iain Banks

"In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she realises. But then she also has more defences than even her most hardened adversaries could imagine. In another palace, far across the mountains, sits the regicidal Protector General....

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The hydrogen sonata  by Iain Banks

The hydrogen sonata

Iain Banks

"The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation. An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier. Now they've made...

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Excession  by Iain Banks

Excession

Iain Banks

"Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year- old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Silent, motionless,...

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The space merchants  by Frederik Pohl

The space merchants

Frederik Pohl

"It is the 20th Century, an advertisement-drenched world in which the big ad agencies dominate governments and everything else. Now Schoken Associates, one of the big players, has a new challenge for star copywriter Mitch Courtenay. Volunteers are needed to...

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The long tomorrow  by Leigh Brackett

The long tomorrow

Leigh Brackett

"Two generations after destruction rained down upon America's cities, the population is scattered into small towns. Cities are forbidden by law, as is scientific research. Rumors abound of a secret place known as 'Bartorstown', where science is untrammelled by...

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Semper Mars  by Ian Douglas

Semper Mars

Ian Douglas

"When evidence of an alternate history is discovered on Mars in 2040, the Earth is split into opposing factions that threaten the planet with full-scale civil war, a situation that sparks action on the part of a high-level protection force."--Publisher.

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Shattered skies  by Alice Henderson

Shattered skies

Alice Henderson

"An Earth ravaged by an environmental catastrophe now faces its greatest threat - from space. And only the woman known as H124 can harness a lost technology to save it from absolute destruction... As a deadly asteroid careens towards Earth, H124 and her...

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Shattered lands  by Alice Henderson

Shattered lands

Alice Henderson

"Environmental devastation has left Earth a wasteland, but an even more nightmarish fate looms if the woman known as H124 can't stop an extinction-level asteroid from destroying the planet... On the run from a dangerous media empire, H124 places her hope in...

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Shattered roads  by Alice Henderson

Shattered roads

Alice Henderson

"In a future laid waste by environmental catastrophe, one woman in a shielded megacity discovers a secret hidden within - and the nightmare of what lies beyond... Her designation is H124 - a menial worker in a city safeguarded against the devastating storms of...

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The third rule of time travel  by Philip Fracassi

The third rule of time travel

Philip Fracassi

"Scientist Beth Darlow has discovered the unimaginable. She's built a machine that allows human consciousness to travel through time-to any point in the traveler's lifetime-and relive moments of their life. An impossible breakthrough, but it's not perfect: the...

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The Martian contingency  by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Martian contingency

Mary Robinette Kowal

"Years after a meteorite strike obliterated Washington, D.C.--triggering an extinction-level global warming event--Earth's survivors have started an international effort to establish homes on space stations and the Moon. The next stop--Mars. Elma York, the...

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A line you have traced  by Roisin Dunnett

A line you have traced

Roisin Dunnett

"Against a backdrop of growing violence and environmental collapse, three women living centuries apart each search for meaning and connection after becoming obsessed with a mysterious red book. In post-World War I London, Bea encounters an uncanny figure she...

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Splinter effect  by Andrew Ludington

Splinter effect

Andrew Ludington

"Smithsonian archaeologist Rabbit Ward travels through time on sponsored expeditions to the past to secure precious artifacts moments before they are lost to history. Although exceptional at his job, Rabbit is not without faults. In a spectacular failure...

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Acceptance  by Jeff VanderMeer

Acceptance

Jeff VanderMeer

"It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern...

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Authority  by Jeff VanderMeer

Authority

Jeff VanderMeer

"For thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X has taken the form of a series of expeditions monitored by a secret agency called the Southern Reach. After the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the Southern Reach is in...

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Vanguard  by Rachel Aukes

Vanguard

Rachel Aukes

"One final mission: Save the universe. The Rampage, annihilation incarnate, has left countless scorched planets in its wake... and now it's coming for ours. Liv, Sam, and Jason are just beginning to unlock their newfound abilities when they realize that if...

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Murder by memory  by Olivia Waite

Murder by memory

Olivia Waite

""Near the top most deck of an interstellar generation ship, Dorothy Gentleman wakes up in a body that isn't hers - just as someone else is found murdered. As one of the ship's detectives, Dorothy usually delights in unraveling the schemes on board the Fair...

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In the courts of the crimson kings  by S. M. Stirling

In the courts of the crimson kings

S. M. Stirling

"As the 21st century dawns, the struggle for knowledge and power on these celestial bodies forms the backdrop for a captivating tale. Set against a canvas of interplanetary intrigue, the story follows an archaeologist's ambitious quest to uncover the mysteries...

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Flight of the sparrow  by Fallon DeMornay

Flight of the sparrow

Fallon DeMornay

"Nimah may have been born a RIM-rat, a hardscrabble kid from the far reaches of the galaxy, but now that she's a well-respected cadet at the prestigious STARS military academy, she's put her past behind her. Or so she thinks, until her future is obliterated by...

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The Black fantastic

The Black fantastic

"On the shoulders of Afrofuturist masters like Octavia E. Butler and Samuel R. Delany and pioneering visionaries before them, a new, abundant, and brilliant generation of contemporary Black authors, some of them just beginning their careers, is conjuring up a...

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Matter  by Iain Banks

Matter

Iain Banks

"The intricate structure of a Shellworld, an artificial planet of spheres-within-spheres, is matched only by the machinations of its inhabitants. On the eighth sphere of Sursamen, a man witnesses the murder of his father and flees, searching for the one -...

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Surface detail  by Iain Banks

Surface detail

Iain Banks

"The 'War in Heaven', a simulated war game, rages between civilisations. Its virtual battles have been fought for decades, and the victors will decide the fate of the digital Hells - torturous artificial afterlives with horrors beyond imagination. In the...

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Vanishing world  by Sayaka Murata

Vanishing world

Sayaka Murata

"As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents 'copulated' in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-twentieth century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an...

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The quiet war  by Paul J. McAuley

The quiet war

Paul J. McAuley

"Although the colonists' attempt to win independence is defeated in the quiet war, and Earth's Three Powers takes full control of their city states, the spread and divergence from the norm of new kinds of humanity continues. As tensions increase and Earth's...

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Luminous  by Silvia Park

Luminous

Silvia Park

"In a fictional near-future Korea, robots have integrated seamlessly into society. They are housekeepers and policemen, teachers and bus drivers. They are our lovers. They are even our children. Siblings Jun and Morgan Cho haven't spoken to each other in...

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The reality dysfunction  by Peter F. Hamilton

The reality dysfunction

Peter F. Hamilton

"In AD2600 the human race is finally beginning to realise its full potential. Hundreds of colonised planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's...

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Ice  by Anna Kavan

Ice

Anna Kavan

"The last of Kavan's books to be published in her lifetime, 'Ice' is a dreamy novel set in an imaginary world padded by ice and snow, run by a secret government, invaded by aggressors, and threatened with nuclear destruction."--Provided by publisher.

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The sea eternal  by Emery Robin

The sea eternal

Emery Robin

"Matheus Ceirran, commander of half the known world, is dead. For the past year, his loyal captain Anita has hunted down his assassins - that is, when she can pull herself from the bed of Altagracia Caviro Patramata, queen and oracle of the client planet of...

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Advent  by Seth Ring

Advent

Seth Ring

"All his life, Mark Fields has dreamed of joining the Defense Force to fight the vicious, alien Exlian, just like the rest of his renowned family. So far, he's a dishwasher, trapped in a dead-end job with no powers, no money, and even fewer friends. Then an...

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Swallowed  by Meg (Novelist) Smitherman

Swallowed

Meg (Novelist) Smitherman

"Earth is broken beyond repair. The Planet is our last hope... Humanity's first mission to the Planet ended in tragedy, but botanist Jill Jones won't let that stop her from joining the second. Perfect climate, perfect terrain, perfect flora and fauna; the...

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The Miranda conspiracy  by James L. Cambias

The Miranda conspiracy

James L. Cambias

"At the end of the Tenth Millennium Zee and his AI buddy Daslakh arrive on the icy moon Miranda, hoping to make a good impression on his girlfriend Adya's upper-class parents. Instead they discover that Adya's father is the target of a political conspiracy....

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Mickey7  by Edward Ashton

Mickey7

Edward Ashton

"Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission that's too dangerous - even suicidal - the crew turns to Mickey. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with...

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T zero  by Italo Calvino

T zero

Italo Calvino

"In this book, each second is an age, every cell a universe. Through a series of stories, the author illustrates the paradoxes of space and time. Estranged lovers forever travelling parallel highways, the hunter and lion trapped at each others throats and...

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Two truths and a lie  by Cory O'Brien

Two truths and a lie

Cory O'Brien

"In a mostly underwater near-future Los Angeles, aging combat-drone veteran Orr Vue now lives a simple and small life, trading snippets of what's become the most valuable currency: information. So when the cops show up at his door looking for data on a murder...

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1637  by Eric Flint

1637

Eric Flint

"Tensions build in France following the ascension of Gaston to the throne of his murdered brother, but there are factions supporting the claim of King Louis' surviving infant son. As France moves toward civil war, other parties, both visible and invisible,...

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Rose/House  by Arkady Martine

Rose/House

Arkady Martine

"All of Basit Deniau's houses were haunted. Rose House, his final architectural triumph built in the remote Mojave desert, was perhaps the most. A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing. But a house that is an artificial intelligence,...

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Installment immortality  by Seanan McGuire

Installment immortality

Seanan McGuire

"After four generations of caring for the Price family, Mary Dunlavy has more than earned a break from the ongoing war with the Covenant of St. George. Instead, what she's getting is a new employer, in the form of the anima mundi, Earth's living soul made...

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House rules

House rules

"An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and become bizarrely mutated. But whether joker or ace or a bit of both,...

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Destiny's way  by Jack (Naval officer) Campbell

Destiny's way

Jack (Naval officer) Campbell

"Lieutenant Selene Genji is hurled into the past to try and save a world that doesn't want her... Earth was destroyed on June 12th, 2180. Lieutenant Selene Genji watched it happen. And only she can prevent it. Hurled forty years into the past, into a time...

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Children of ruin  by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Children of ruin

Adrian Tchaikovsky

"It has been waiting through the ages. Now it's time... Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth....

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Chaos  by Constance Fay

Chaos

Constance Fay

"Lore Olympus meets Winter's Orbit in this pulse-pounding romance about between a space mercenary and a super soldier whose mind-control breaks when she touches him. Desperate to prove herself to her crew of space mercenaries, engineer Caro Ogunyemi takes on a...

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Deathstalker coda  by Simon R. Green

Deathstalker coda

Simon R. Green

"Lewis Deathstalker has succeeded at the impossible: he's found Owen Deathstalker, presumed dead for the last two hundred years. Owen's return strikes a crippling blow to the Empire as his military joins the rebellion. But Owen himself has a larger mission. He...

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Shroud  by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Shroud

Adrian Tchaikovsky

"A commercial expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is deadly to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud. Under no circumstances...

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Machine learning  by Hugh Howey

Machine learning

Hugh Howey

"A collection of new and previously published stories by New York Times best-selling author Hugh Howey, including three set in his Wool universe"--

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Golden son  by Pierce Brown

Golden son

Pierce Brown

"As Reds, Darrow and his kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist masters, the Golds. In the name of the greater good for which Eo, his true love and inspiration, laid down her own life, Darrow becomes a Gold to destroy their privileged realm from...

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Deathstalker legacy  by Simon R. Green

Deathstalker legacy

Simon R. Green

"A golden age doesn't last forever... Owen Deathstalker sacrificed everything to topple a corrupt empire and usher humanity into an age of peace and prosperity. Now Lewis Deathstalker, Owen's descendant, carries on the family name and honor as a Paragon,...

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Deathstalker destiny  by Simon R. Green

Deathstalker destiny

Simon R. Green

"Owen Deathstalker has a prophecy to fulfill. Just as the espers foretold, Owen tumbled an empire and witnessed the end of everything he believed in...all that's left to do is die. But Owen has a few more scores he'd like to settle before his borrowed time is...

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Siege of Vraks  by Steve Lyons

Siege of Vraks

Steve Lyons

"Understand just how the Death Korps of Krieg have earned their reputation as the Imperium's most ruthless fighters in this gripping tale of desperate defence and defiant loyalty. Vraks is an armoury world that is vital to the struggling Imperium and its...

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Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis

"A visionary anthology of climate fiction from Grist featuring winning selections from Grist's Imagine 2200 short story contest"--

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The unworthy  by Agustina María Bazterrica

The unworthy

Agustina María Bazterrica

"In the House of the Sacred Sisterhood, the unworthy live in fear of the Superior Sister's whip. Seething with resentment, they plot against each other and await who will ascend to the level of the Enlightened - and who will suffer the next exemplary...

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1637  by Iver P. Cooper

1637

Iver P. Cooper

"A cosmic catastrophe, the Ring of Fire, strands the West Virginia town of Grantville back in time in the middle of the Thirty Years War. One of its ripple effects is that Japan has pulled back from a policy of isolation and staked out its own claims on the...

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Fable for the end of the world  by Ava Reid

Fable for the end of the world

Ava Reid

"By encouraging massive accumulations of debt, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society... Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town, barely scraping a living from their taxidermy shop. But their mother has secretly accrued...

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Empty throne  by Jeremy Patenaude

Empty throne

Jeremy Patenaude

"2559. It has been a year since the rogue artificial intelligence Cortana seized control of the Domain, an otherworldly dimension housing a vast information network. With an array of Forerunner weapons at her disposal, Cortana set out to enforce an...

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Renegades. Lord of excess  by Rich (Richard) McCormick

Renegades. Lord of excess

Rich (Richard) McCormick

"The disparate splinters of the Emperor's Children eke out a violent, hedonistic existence between the stars, raiding and ravaging worlds according to their appetites. Seeking sensation above all else, life is vicious and short-lived for the sons of the III...

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The fourth consort  by Edward (Science fiction writer) Ashton

The fourth consort

Edward (Science fiction writer) Ash...

"Dalton Greaves is a hero. He's one of humankind's first representatives to Unity, a pan-species confederation working to bring all sentient life into a single benevolent brotherhood. That's what they told him, anyway. The only actual members of Unity that...

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Freedom's choice  by Anne McCaffrey

Freedom's choice

Anne McCaffrey

"They called the planet Botany, after the old penal colony on Earth. For that is what they were - prisoners and dissidents from other worlds whom the hated Catteni had banished to an empty planet - or what they thought was an empty planet. Kris Bjornsen and...

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Freedom's challenge  by Anne McCaffrey

Freedom's challenge

Anne McCaffrey

"Armed with the knowledge that the true enemy behind the Catteni is the Eosi race, Kris has begun a campaign to free Botany's settlers by raising a rebellion among her people against their parasitic oppressors. Aided by her Catteni lover, Zainal, Kris and the...

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Abyss  by Ian Douglas

Abyss

Ian Douglas

Centuries in the future, the Galactic Authority reigns over millions of advanced civilizations throughout the cosmos. From deep within the Galactic Core, the Authority's principal Mind has won the allegiance of myriad nations, offering security, connection,...

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Into the light  by David Weber

Into the light

David Weber

The Shongairi conquered Earth. In mere minutes, half the human race died, and its cities lay in shattered ruins. But the Shongairi didn't expect the survivors' tenacity. And, crucially, they didn't know that Earth harbored two species of intelligent,...

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In ascension  by Martin MacInnes

In ascension

Martin MacInnes

"Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as a refuge from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the marine world of her childhood, she excels in postgraduate research on ancient algae. When an unfathomable vent appears in the...

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Prey  by Michael Crichton

Prey

Michael Crichton

"In the Nevada desert, a handful of scientists are battling to retrieve a swarm of rogue micro-robots that has escaped from the lab. The swarm is self-sustaining, self-reproducing and capable of learning from experience. It is, to all intents and purposes,...

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The dream hotel  by Laila Lalami

The dream hotel

Laila Lalami

"Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA's algorithm has determined that she...

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The Andromeda strain  by Michael Crichton

The Andromeda strain

Michael Crichton

Five prominent biophysicists give the United States government an urgent warning: sterilisation procedures for returning space problems may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, Project scoop sends seventeen...

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The dispossessed  by Ursula K. Le Guin

The dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

"A bleak moon settled by utopian anarchists, Anarres has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras--a civilization of warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to reunite...

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Imperial Earth  by Arthur C. (Arthur Charles) Clarke

Imperial Earth

Arthur C. (Arthur Charles) Clarke

"Colonists from the entire solar system converge on the mother planet for the 2276 celebrations. Among the influx of humanity is Duncan Makenzie, scientist-administrator from the underground colony of Titan, one of the outer moons of Saturn. Makenzie is not...

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Adulthood rites  by Octavia E. Butler

Adulthood rites

Octavia E. Butler

"Lilith's son Akin looks like an ordinary child. His family live together on Earth, but not in complete peace. The Oankali saved humanity years before, compelled by the desire to create an extraordinary new race of children. But there are those who resist the...

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Imago  by Octavia E. Butler

Imago

Octavia E. Butler

"Jodahs is a child of the Earth and stars, born from the union between humans and the Oankali, who saved humanity from destruction centuries before. But Jodahs is approaching adulthood, a metamorphosis that will take him beyond gender and family, and into a...

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The short victorious war  by David Weber

The short victorious war

David Weber

"The families who rule the People's Republic of Haven are in trouble. The treasury's empty, the Proles are restless, and civil war is imminent. But the ruling class knows what they need to keep in power: a ''short victorious war'' to unite the people and fill...

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The rise of Endymion  by Dan Simmons

The rise of Endymion

Dan Simmons

"The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion,...

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Extremophile  by Ian (Novelist) Green

Extremophile

Ian (Novelist) Green

"Charlie and Parker are punks by night, biohackers by day, living in the stuttering decay of near-future climate-collapse London. They pay for the beer they don't steal with money from their sketchy astronomy site Zodiac Code, while Charlie's bio-bespoke...

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The city & the city  by China Miéville

The city & the city

China Miéville

"Blending weird fiction with the police procedural, The City & The City is an existential thriller like no other... When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary decaying city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks like a...

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Symbiote  by Michael Nayak

Symbiote

Michael Nayak

"As World War III rages, the scientists in Antarctica are thankful for the isolation--until a group of Chinese scientists arrive at the American research base. In their truck is a dead body--the first murder in Antarctica. The potential for a geopolitical...

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Network effect  by Martha Wells

Network effect

Martha Wells

"You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And...

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Not till we are lost  by Dennis E. Taylor

Not till we are lost

Dennis E. Taylor

"The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There's anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs...

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Brother Brontë  by Fernando A. Flores

Brother Brontë

Fernando A. Flores

"The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of the town's mothers to work as...

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The demolished man  by Alfred Bester

The demolished man

Alfred Bester

"In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that... Ben Reich, a psychopathic business magnate,...

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Roadkill  by Dennis E. Taylor

Roadkill

Dennis E. Taylor

"Jack Kernigan is having a bad day...a bad year...a bad life. After being booted out of MIT, he's back in his Ohio hometown, working for the family business, facing a life of mediocrity. Then one day, out on a delivery, his truck hits...something. Something...

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Heaven's river  by Dennis E. Taylor

Heaven's river

Dennis E. Taylor

"More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again. There has been no trace of him despite numerous searches by his clone-mates. Now Bob is determined to organize an expedition to learn Bender's fate - whatever the...

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Outland  by Dennis E. Taylor

Outland

Dennis E. Taylor

"When the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts, it's up to six university students and their experimental physics project to prevent the end of civilization. When an experiment to study quantum uncertainty goes spectacularly wrong, physics student Richard and his...

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A trail through time  by Jodi Taylor

A trail through time

Jodi Taylor

"Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time travel"-these historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time." And they...

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Lies, damned lies, and history  by Jodi Taylor

Lies, damned lies, and history

Jodi Taylor

"Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time travel"--These historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time." And they...

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This is your bike on plants

This is your bike on plants

"When you plant the seeds of bicycle revolution, you never know what the future will grow. These 12 stories form a splendid garden of potential futures, from the speculative to the surreal - all powered by bicycles, grounded in feminism, and blossoming with...

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The sky people  by S. M. Stirling

The sky people

S. M. Stirling

"Marc Vitrac, born in 1960s Louisiana, came into a world where the first interplanetary probes unveiled life on Mars and Venus, igniting a global Space Race. Fast forward to 1988, Marc is stationed at Jamestown, a US-Commonwealth base on Venus, set against a...

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Dark Lord  by James Luceno

Dark Lord

James Luceno

"Anakin Skywalker-the Chosen One-is dead. In his place rises Darth Vader, who now hunts what Jedi survived the desctruction of their temple on Coruscant. From the site of Anakin Skywalker's last stand-on the molten surface of the planet Mustafar, where he...

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Scoundrels  by Timothy Zahn

Scoundrels

Timothy Zahn

"Han Solo should be basking in his moment of glory. After all, the cocky smuggler and captain of the Millennium Falcon just played a key role in the daring raid that destroyed the Death Star and landed the first serious blow to the Empire in its war against...

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The mechanics of memory  by Audrey (Thriller writer) Lee

The mechanics of memory

Audrey (Thriller writer) Lee

"Memory is Copeland-Stark's business. Yet after months of reconsolidation treatments at their sleek new flagship facility, Hope Nakano still has no idea what happened to her lost year, or the life she was just beginning to build with Luke. When the procedures...

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Asylum  by Una McCormack

Asylum

Una McCormack

"When Una Chin-Riley and Christopher Pike meet at Starfleet Academy after one of his lectures, they immediately become friends. A stellar student, Una is the "poster girl" of her class, and Pike is determined to become a Starfleet captain with his own ship,...

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