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New and recommended science fiction
Updated February 9, 2024
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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
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The power : a novel
Alderman, Naomi
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Antimatter blues
Ashton, Edward (Science fiction writer)
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The thrilling follow-up to Mickey7, soon to be a major motion picture by Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-Ho. Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive-...
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Bridge
Beukes, Lauren
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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'<...
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The School for Good Mothers A Novel
Chan, Jessamine.
Paper Book
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN OBAMA'S 2022 SUMMER READING PICK A BETWEEN THE COVERS NOVEMBER 2022 PICK 'Will resonate with fans of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere' ELLE 'Destined to be a feminist classic - kept me up at...
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Sleepwalk : a novel
Chaon, Dan
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'A thrilling and often hilarious road trip across America in the very near future, told by a winning and murderous narrator' Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl Sleepwalk's hero, Will Bear, is a man with so many aliases that he simply thinks of himself as the Barely Blur...
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The ferryman : a novel
Cronin, Justin
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'Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.' STEPHEN KING ***** The islands of Prospera lie in a vast ocean: in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity, or whatever remains of it. . . ...
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Upgrade : a novel
Crouch, Blake
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'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 evolution . . .'
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The candy house : a novel
Egan, Jennifer
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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...
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Axiom's end : a novel
Ellis, Lindsay
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By the fall of 2007, one well-timed leak revealing that the U.S. government might have engaged in first contact has sent the country into turmoil, and it is all Cora Sabino can do to avoid the whole mess. To save her own life, she offers her services as an interpreter to a monster,...
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Leech
Ennes, Hiron
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'Unique and utterly assured, I will follow this writer anywhere' - Gillian Flynn, author of Gone GirlIn the baron's icebound castle, a parasite is spreading . . . From Hiron Ennes, Leech is an atmospheric Gothic triumph, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.In an isolated...
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Ripe : a novel
Etter, Sarah Rose
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The echo wife
Gailey, Sarah
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The peripheral
Gibson, William
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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...
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The women could fly : a novel
Giddings, Megan
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"Megan Giddings's prose is brimming with wonder. The Women Could Fly is a candid appraisal of grief, inheritance, and the merits of unruliness." - Raven Leilani Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Deborah Harkness, and Octavia E. Butler, The Women Could...
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The Apollo murders : a novel
Hadfield, Chris
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An exceptional Cold War thriller from the dark heart of the Space Race, by astronaut and New York Times bestselling author Chris Hadfield 'An exciting...
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Salvation lost
Hamilton, Peter F.
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The extraordinary second volume in Peter F. Hamilton's space opera masterpiece, the Salvation Sequence. 'Action-oriented hardcore science fiction at its page-turning best' - The Guardian Fight together - or die alone. In the twenty-third...
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Tell me an ending : a novel
Harkin, Jo
Paper Book
'Pure pleasure' THE TIMES 'Incredibly nicely written . . . Jo Harkin writes really well about human beings. I really enjoyed it' MARIAN KEYES 'Sharply, beautifully written' THE NEW YORK TIMES 'As page-turning as a thriller, and as thought-provoking as an inquiry into...
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Klara and the sun
Ishiguro, Kazuo
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Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.
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The vanished birds
Jimenez, Simon
Paper Book
"This is where your life begins." Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. The captain of a transport ship...
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I'm waiting for you : and other stories
Kim, Bo Young
Paper Book
THE TIMES SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH 'Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art ... powerful and graceful' - Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of Parasite 'Dazzling' - The Times A stunning collection of short...
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The spare man
Kowal, Mary Robinette
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Tesla Crane, a brilliant inventor and an heiress, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between the Moon and Mars. She's travelling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and the festering chowderheads who run security have the audacity to...
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Whalefall : a novel
Kraus, Daniel
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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.
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Goldilocks
Lam, Laura
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SEVEN DEVILS 'GOLDILOCKS GRABS YOUR ATTENTION AND DOESN'T LET GO - A THOUGHT-PROVOKING, IMAGINATIVE CALL-TO-ARMS' Katie Khan, author of Hold Back the Stars 'BOLD, FEMINIST SCI-FI FROM A...
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The last hero : a novel
Lewis, Linden A.
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The emotional First Sister trilogy comes to a sensational climax in this final installment, and is a must-read for science fiction fans everywhere. Astrid is finally free of the Sisterhood, yet her name carries notoriety. Those she's inspired call her the Unchained; those who...
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Prophet
Macdonald, Helen
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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...
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Sea of Tranquility A novel
Mandel, Emily St. John.
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From Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later. The Sunday Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel is a story of parallel worlds and possibilities that plays with the very line along which time should run.
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The marriage act : a novel
Marrs, John (Freelance journalist)
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'Clever, compelling and terrifyingly plausible' - C. J. Tudor, author of A Sliver of Darkness What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey? Set in the same world as The One, now a Netflix Original Series, The Marriage Act is a dark, high-concept...
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A desolation called peace
Martine, Arkady
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'This is first-class space opera' - The Guardian A Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular sequel to A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel. An alien terror could spell our end. An...
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Void star
Mason, Zachary
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Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying but it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn't rich, not quite, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect...
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Ocean's echo
Maxwell, Everina
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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...
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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...
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The memory librarian : and other stories of dirty computer
Mona?e, Janelle
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In The Memory Librarian music, fashion, film and futurist icon Janelle Monáe 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......
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The daughter of Doctor Moreau : a novel
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. 'ONE OF...
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How high we go in the dark : a novel
Nagamatsu, Sequoia
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022FINALIST FOR THE BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE 2022FINALIST FOR THE URSULA LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022WATERSTONES AND ESQUIRE BEST BOOKS OF 2022For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, Sequoia...
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Paolini, Christopher.
Paper Book
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars is a masterful epic science fiction novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Inheritance Cycle, Christopher Paolini.During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, xenobiologist Kira Navárez finds an alien relic that thrusts her...
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Eversion
Reynolds, Alastair
Paper Book
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Lost in time
Riddle, A. G.
Paper Book
The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I've ever read." -Diana Gabaldon "Crichtonesque thrillers don't come much better than this. . . Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough." -...
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Starter villain
Scalzi, John
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'Laugh-out-loud funny, intricately plotted and big-hearted' - SFX Warning: supervillain in training. Risk of world domination. Locus and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi brings us Starter Villain, a turbo-charged tale of a family...
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This Time Tomorrow A Novel
Straub, Emma.
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Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have it figured out by now, and have spent more time with her father Leonard, who is very sick. When she wakes up outside their old apartment on her birthday, she's surprised to see a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for...
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Children of memory
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
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The unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin from Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Adrian Tchaikovsky. They dreamed of a new home. They woke to a nightmare. On Imir, Captain Holt founded a new colony on...
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Some desperate glory
Tesh, Emily
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**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
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The immortal King Rao : a novel
Vara, Vauhini
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My murder
Williams, Katie
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The book of Joan : a novel
Yuknavitch, Lidia
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Internationally bestselling author Lidia Yuknavitch offers a re-imagined Joan of Arc poised to save a world ravaged by war, in this genre-defying masterpiece.
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Land of milk and honey
Zhang, C Pam
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A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world 'A rich novel of ideas' GUARDIAN 'A tasty treat' iNEWS 'A genius balance of page-turning and lyrical prose'...
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