Science Fiction

New and recommended science fiction

Updated September 19, 2025
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Chain-gang all-stars
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame
Paper Book
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND. 'America's new Hunger Games' Sunday Times 'So good. This one is from the heart' Stephen King 'Brutal, thrilling, devastating and beautiful' The Times
The future : a novel
Alderman, Naomi
Paper Book
'Gripping' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A fabulous, witty writer on the digital world' SUNDAY TIMES 'A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it's brilliant and I loved it' LAUREN BEUKES The latest novel from the Women's Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Power...
Mickey7
Ashton, Edward (Science fiction writer)
Paper Book
Soon to be a major motion picture by Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho. Dying isn't any fun...but at least it's a living. Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's...
Beautyland
Bertino, Marie-Helene
'One of the best books I have read this year' KALIANE BRADLEY, Guardian 'A remarkable funny-sad novel' New York Times Meet Adina- a woman who has never felt at home on Earth Born at the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space, Adina...
Bridge
Beukes, Lauren
Paper Book
The mind-bending new masterpiece from the multi-award-winning author of Apple TV's smash hit literary adaptation SHINING GIRLS, starring Elizabeth Moss. 'Addictive, fascinating and compelling page-turner' - Guardian 'A high-concept page-turner'<...
Ascension
Binge, Nicholas
Paper Book
"Old-school creepy... a five-star horror novel." STEPHEN KING A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means...
The ministry of time
Bradley, Kaliane
Paper Book
The romantic, historical, comedic, literary, genre-defying bestseller 'The hit of the year' Guardian 'Addictive' Independent 'Crack this book open and you'll see how time can disappear' Financial...
Sky full of elephants
Campbell, Cebo
Paper Book
"Bold and imaginative." --Tananarive Due "This stunning allegory will spark much discussion." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A truly powerful and riveting story." --Booklist In a world without white people,...
Infinity gate
Carey, M. R.
Paper Book
'A GENUINE TREAT FOR SF FANS: AN EPIC MULTIVERSE TALE THAT MOVES LIKE A THRILLER' Kirkus 'AN IMMENSE ACHIEVEMENT: AN IMPECCABLY CRAFTED BOOK' New York Times **SHORTLISTED FOR THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD AND THE KITSCHIES BEST NOVEL AWARD** ...
The mercy of gods
Corey, James S. A.
Paper Book
**THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'THE START OF SOMETHING TRULY EPIC' Fonda Lee, author of the Green Bone Saga 'DAZZLING . . . THIS IS SPACE OPERA AT ITS BEST' Publishers Weekly From the New York Times bestselling author...
The ferryman : a novel
Cronin, Justin
Paper Book
Upgrade : a novel
Crouch, Blake
Paper Book
'It's clear you're in the hands of a master storyteller' - Alex Michaelides Upgrade is the mind-bending thriller from Blake Crouch, author of the bestselling Dark Matter and Recursion. 'You are the next step in human...
The candy house : a novel
Egan, Jennifer
Paper Book
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD A Time Magazine Must-Read 'A complex, compelling read that showcases Egan's masterful storytelling' TIME 'A dazzling feat of literary construction' VOGUE From one of...
Leech
Ennes, Hiron
Paper Book
In the baron's icebound castle, a parasite is spreading . . . From Hiron Ennes, Leech is an atmospheric Gothic horror, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and Silvia Moreno-Garcia. 'Unique and utterly assured, I will follow this writer anywhere' - Gillian Flynn, author of...
Ripe : a novel
Etter, Sarah Rose
Audiobook
The peripheral
Gibson, William
Paper Book
Flynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars are finding it hard to recover. She scrapes a living doing some freelance online game-playing, participating in some pretty weird stuff. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the...
Annie bot : a novel
Greer, Sierra
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2025 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD A TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH A GUARDIAN SCI-FI BOOK OF THE MONTH A JIMMY FALLON SPRING FAVOURITE A HARPER'S BAZAAR 'BEST BOOK OF 2024' AUDIBLE BEST OF THE MONTH AMAZON 'BEST OF MARCH' PICK ESQUIRE'S 'BEST...
Orbital
Harvey, Samantha
Paper Book
**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas' GUARDIAN 'Stunning... An uplifting book' SUNDAY TIMES Life on our...
The other valley : a novel
Howard, Scott Alexander
Paper Book
'Astonishingly brilliant. My book of the year.' Liz Nugent, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond For fans of Emily St John Mandel and Kazuo Ishiguro, an exhilarating novel about an isolated town neighboured by its own past and future, and a young girl...
Whalefall : a novel
Kraus, Daniel
Paper Book
The Martian meets 127 Hours in this powerfully humane thriller about a scuba diver who's been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.
Ancillary justice
Leckie, Ann.
Paper Book
The record-breaking debut novel that won every major science fiction award in 2014, Ancillary Justice is the story of a warship trapped in a human body and her search for revenge. Ann Leckie is the first author to win the Arthur C. Clarke, the Nebula and the Hugo Award...
Prophet
Macdonald, Helen
Paper Book
YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON. 'Fabulous... Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel' NEIL GAIMAN, author of Coraline This is Prophet. It knows when you were happiest. It gives life to your...
In ascension
MacInnes, Martin
Paper Book
If Richard Powers had written Arrival, an astonishing novel that is set to break out Martin MacInnes as one of the most important literary voices of his generation
The family experiment
Marrs, John (Freelance journalist)
Paper Book
'John Marrs is a writer at the top of his game and The Family Experiment is his best yet. Frighteningly plausible, gripping, dark, and so clever.' - Claire Douglas, author of The Woman Who LiedSome families are virtually perfect . . . The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities...
Ocean's echo
Maxwell, Everina
Paper Book
Ocean's Echo is a stand-alone, romantic space adventure, set in the same universe as Everina Maxwell's hit debut, Winter's Orbit. When Tennal - a rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster - is caught using his telepathic powers for illegal activities, the...
Our hideous progeny : a novel
McGill, C. E.
Paper Book
'Compelling and utterly absorbing... an artfully crafted debut' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN, author of PANDORA 'A gripping Gothic tale of grief and ambition, passion and intrigue' JESS KIDD, author of THE NIGHT SHIP 'A wonderful book; dark, passionate, multi-layered' JOANNE...
The siege of burning grass
Mohamed, Premee
Paper Book
A stunning meditation on war, nationalism, violence and courage by a rising star of the genre. The Empires of Varkal and Med'ariz have always been at war. Alefret, the founder of Varkal's pacifist resistance, was bombed and maimed by his own government, locked...
The memory librarian : and other stories of dirty computer
Mona?e, Janelle
Paper Book
In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle MonĂ¡e returns to the Afrofuturistic world of her critically acclaimed album, Dirty Computer, to explore how different threads of liberation - queerness, race, gender plurality, love - become tangled in a totalitarian landscape......
The terraformers
Newitz, Annalee
Paper Book
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future. Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its...
In universes : a novel
North, Emet
Paper Book
'An explosion of creative beauty and heart' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH, author of CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS 'Dazzling and inventive' DANIELLE EVANS, author of THE OFFICE OF HISTORICAL CORRECTIONS 'North's ability to capture the essence of queer experiences with...
More perfect
Oh, Temi
Paper Book
'A spectacular exploration of the power of technology... science fiction at its best' Saara El-Arifi, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Strife What does it feel like to wake up in the Panopticon? It's like waking up for the...
Hum
Phillips, Helen
Paper Book
From critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Helen Phillips comes an urgent, compelling and deeply human novel that asks: how do we raise our children for a future that is unknown, that we can't see ourselves?
Extinction : a novel
Preston, Douglas J.
Paper Book
An epic thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston, perfect for fans of Michael Crichton. Extinction explores the very real effort to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other extinct megafauna from the Pleistocene Age. Erebus Resort,...
The Mars house : a novel
Pulley, Natasha
Paper Book
'Pure Pulley' STUART TURTON 'Joyful and profound' CATRIONA WARD 'Simply unputdownable' THOMAS D. LEE 'A work of staggering genius' IMRAN MAHMOOD 'Charming and funny and perfectly paced' TEMI OH 'A spiritual heir to Terry...
Eversion
Reynolds, Alastair
Paper Book
Moon of the crusted snow : a novel
Rice, Waubgeshig
Ebook
Starter villain
Scalzi, John
Paper Book
Locus and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi brings us a turbo-charged tale of a family business with a difference - as Charlie discovers when he inherits it. This one comes with a hidden headquarters, minions, talking cats and James Bond-like supervillain rivals.Warning: supervillain in training...
The rise and fall of D.O.D.O. : a novel
Stephenson, Neal
Paper Book
You think you know how the world works? Think again. 21st Century America Magic has faded from the minds of mankind, until an encounter between Melisande Stokes, linguistics expert at Harvard, and Tristan Lyons, shadowy agent of government, leads to the uncovering of a distant...
This time tomorrow
Straub, Emma
Paper Book
By her fortieth birthday, Alice Stern thought she's have figured it out, and have years left to spend with her father, Leonard. In reality, Alice is far from ready for the next big milestone, and Leonard is very sick. When she wakes up outside their old apartment on her birthday, she's...
Service model
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Paper Book
Task List Item No. 1 - Become self-aware . . . A witty tale of robotic murder, rebellion and belonging from the master of science fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Service Model is perfect for fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
Some desperate glory
Tesh, Emily
Paper Book
**WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD** ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL** 'An instant classic' Guardian
The last murder at the end of the world : a novel
Turton, Stuart
Paper Book
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN Abi keeps them safe. One hundred and twenty-two islanders and their three beloved scientists live in harmony, kept safe from a poisonous security barrier with the help...
Annihilation
VanderMeer, Jeff.
Paper Book
'A contemporary masterpiece' Guardian THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC For thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious and...
My murder
Williams, Katie
Paper Book

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