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Updated June 13, 2024
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The tusks of extinction
Nayler, Ray
Paper Book
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again. Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant...
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Womb city
Tsamaase, Tlotlo
Paper Book
"A fearless novel that probes ideas of surveillance, misogyny and class. . . . Tsamaase brilliantly tackles ideas of motherhood and autonomy. The author seamlessly blends a body-hopping ghost story about revenge with a narrative about the importance of memory. It's such an original first novel,...
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Exordia
Dickinson, Seth
Paper Book
Michael Crichton meets Marvel's Venom in award-winning author Seth Dickinson's science fiction debut, named one of The New York Times' Best SFF Books of 2024. "Agonizing and mesmerizing, a devastating and extraordinary achievement."--The New York Times<...
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Exadelic
Evans, Jon
Paper Book
When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls "black magic," it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle...
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Corey Fah does social mobility : a novel
Waidner, Isabel
Paper Book
A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of success This is the story of Corey Fah, a writer who has hit the literary jackpot: their novel has just won the prize for the Fictionalization of Social Evils. But the actual trophy,...
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Last to leave the room : a novel
Starling, Caitlin
Paper Book
Last to Leave the Room is a new novel of genre-busting speculative horror from Caitlin Starling, the acclaimed author of The Death of Jane Lawrence. The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research...
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Touched : a novel
Mosley, Walter
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Intergalactic visions, deadly threats, and explosive standoffs between mostly good and completely evil converge in a dystopian fantasy that could only be conceived by the inimitable Walter Mosley, one of the country's most beloved and acclaimed writers Martin Just wakes up one...
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After world : a novel
Urbanski, Debbie
Paper Book
One of Booklist's Top 10 SF/Fantasy and Horror Debuts: 2024 One of Los Angeles Times's Best Tech Books of 2023 One of San Francisco Chronicle's Favorite Books of 2023 A Climate Reality Project Book Club Pick An "intelligent,...
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The blueprint : a novel
Rashad, Rae Giana
Paper Book
"The Blueprint is an astounding work, an unflinching portrait of misogyny and racism in a speculative world terrifyingly close to our own. Rae Giana Rashad chronicles the generational ghosts of womanhood, and how we understand ourselves through the stories of those we come from, in a way I...
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Those beyond the wall
Johnson, Micaiah
Paper Book
A searing sci-fi thriller about a woman reckoning with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in the face of a coming apocalypse--from the Compton Crook Award-winning author of The Space Between Worlds. "A bold, beautiful, gut-punch of a story, at...
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Emergent properties
Ogden, Aimee
Paper Book
"If you're missing your Murderbot fix, Emergent Properties is a worthy successor."--Sarah Pinsker "A short, laser-focused packet of fun."--Wall Street Journal Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid...
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System collapse
Wells, Martha
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller. A Washington Post bestseller. A USA Today bestseller. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. ...
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Floating hotel
Curtis, Grace
Paper Book
Esquire Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 UK bestseller Goodreads 58 Biggest Books of Spring Men's Health 30 Most Anticipated Sci-Fi and Fantasy books of 2024 Apple Books 2024's Most Anticipated Books LitHub March's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy...
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Stories of your life and others
Chiang, Ted
Paper Book
From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). ...
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The man in the high castle
Dick, Philip K.
Paper Book
It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. the few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some 20 years earlier the United States lost a war--and is now occupied jointly by Nazi Germany and Japan.
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Project Hail Mary : a novel
Weir, Andy
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING RYAN GOSLING AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER LORD AND PHIL MILLER From the author of The Martian, a lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this "propulsive" (Entertainment...
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Tides of Fire A Novel
Rollins, James
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In the latest riveting thriller from James Rollins, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sigma Force series, an international research station in the Coral Sea comes under siege during a geological disaster that triggers massive quakes, deadly tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions. To stop...
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The thermopylae protocol
Weber, David
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NEW NOVEL IN THE BEST-SELLING GORDIAN DIVISION SERIES FROM NYT BEST-SELLING AUTHOR DAVID WEBER AND JACOB HOLO: When a ship from an uncharted universe explodes, it soon becomes apparent that someone is building a massive weapon away from the watchful eyes of the Gordian Division. Agent Cho...
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Lost ark dreaming
Okungbowa, Suyi Davies
Paper Book
"Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a scholar of place and a master of worlds--his grasp of how we are shaped by the spaces we occupy makes him one of the most exciting authors writing in SFF."--Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six A Most...
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The stardust grail
Kitasei, Yume
Paper Book
Save one world. Doom her own. Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations--until a disastrous job forced her into hiding. Now she just wants to enjoy a quiet life as a graduate student of...
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A psalm for the wild-built
Chambers, Becky
Paper Book
Winner of the Hugo Award! In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, bestselling Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series, gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools;...
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Apostles of mercy
Ellis, Lindsay
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Apostles of Mercy is the new alternate history first contact novel from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and LA Times bestselling Lindsay Ellis. First Contact has not been going well. The...
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