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The Churn
by James S.A. Corey
A rag-tag crew on a mission to save humanity from an ancient alien threat.
From New York Times bestselling author James S.A. Corey... Before his trip to the stars, before the Rocinante , Amos Burton was confined to a Baltimore where crime paid you or killed you. Unless the ... (Goodreads)
Nemesis Games
by James S.A. Corey
A group of spacefaring adventurers embark on a journey of discovery and peril.
The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series–now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel! A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history ... (Goodreads)
Strange Dogs
by James S.A. Corey
A group of colonists on a distant planet encounter a pack of genetically modified dogs, leading to unexpected consequences.
A novella set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. A. Corey's, NYT,-bestselling Expanse series,, Strange Dogs, follows a family of colonists on Laconia where a new generation of humanity struggles ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Rook
by Daniel O'Malley
A woman wakes up with no memory, but with supernatural powers and a letter from her past self. She must navigate a secret organization to uncover the truth.
The book follows a young woman in her thirties who wakes up in a park surrounded by bodies wearing latex gloves. She's unable to remember anything about herself or how she or the bodies got there, ... (Wikipedia)
Dust
by Hugh Howey
A post-apocalyptic world struggles to survive against oppressive forces.
The story of Wool takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth. , Humanity clings to survival in the Silo, a subterranean city extending one hundred forty-four stories beneath the surface. The series ... (Wikipedia)
Robot Dreams
by Isaac Asimov
Exploration of the potential of artificial intelligence, and the ethical considerations of robotics.
Robot Dreams collects 21 of Isaac Asimov's short stories spanning the body of his fiction from the 1940s to the 1980s–--exploring not only the future of technology, but the future of humanity's ... (Goodreads)
Stiletto
by Daniel O'Malley
A secret government agency in modern-day London battles supernatural forces.
Following the events chronicled in The Rook , Odette Leliefeld, great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of the Grafters' leader finds herself a member of the delegation negotiating the complex ... (Wikipedia)
Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson
A thrilling journey through the past and present, combining tech, history and adventure.
The action takes place in two periods—World War II and the late 1990s, during the Internet boom and Asian financial crisis . In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, a young United States Navy code ... (Wikipedia)
Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A race of intelligent spiders battles to save their species from extinction.
The book's plot involves a planet inhabited by evolved spiders uplifted by human scientist Avrana Kern, and their much later discovery by the last humans alive in the universe. , , , The work plays ... (Wikipedia)
Ancillary Justice
by Ann Leckie
A sci-fi epic of revenge and redemption, exploring the far reaches of the galaxy.
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking ... (Goodreads)
Starsight
by Brandon Sanderson
A young girl with the ability to travel through space discovers a sinister plot that could threaten the entire galaxy.
Spensa and the DDF have pushed the Krell war into space; Spensa's cytonic "defect" has been a key advantage in the war. Cobb, now the DDF admiral, is worried that humans will lose unless they manage ... (Wikipedia)
Hyperion
by Dan Simmons
Epic science-fiction story of a journey to the distant planet Hyperion.
In the 29th century, the Hegemony of Man comprises hundreds of planets connected by farcaster portals. The Hegemony maintains an uneasy alliance with the TechnoCore , a civilisation of AIs . Modified ... (Wikipedia)
The City of Mirrors
by Justin Cronin
A post-apocalyptic battle to save humanity from a virus that turns humans into vampires.
The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors ... (Goodreads)
The Call of Cthulhu
by H.P. Lovecraft
A tale of horror and mystery, as a man investigates an ancient cult's dark secrets.
The story's narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of various notes left behind by his great uncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent professor of Semitic languages at Brown ... (Wikipedia)
The Library at Mount Char
by Scott Hawkins
A group of orphans with supernatural abilities must battle for control of a mysterious library.
An unexplained catastrophe destroys part of a town, but twelve children survive. The survivors are "adopted" and raised by a powerful, god-like figure called Father. Together they live in "the ... (Wikipedia)
The Naked Sun
by Isaac Asimov
A detective investigates a murder on a distant planet, uncovering a sinister conspiracy.
The story arises from the murder of Rikaine Delmarre, a prominent "fetologist" (fetal scientist), responsible for the operation of the planetary birthing center of Solaria , a planet politically ... (Wikipedia)
2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
An interstellar journey of exploration, confronting humanity's place in the universe.
A mysterious alien civilization uses a tool with the appearance of a large crystalline monolith to investigate worlds across the galaxy and, if possible, to encourage the development of intelligent ... (Wikipedia)
The Scar
by China Miéville
A fantastical journey of survival in a dangerous, watery underworld.
The Scar opens with the journey of a small ship which has set out from the city New Crobuzon (the setting of Perdido Street Station ). It is heading to the city's new colony, Nova Esperium, which ... (Wikipedia)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
by N.K. Jemisin
Yeine Darr is summoned to the city of Sky, where she must compete for the throne against two powerful cousins.
Yeine Darr was born to Kinneth Arameri, who was heir to the Arameri throne but abdicated twenty years before the start of the story to marry Yeine's father, a Darre man. Kinneth was disowned by ... (Wikipedia)
Wool
by Hugh Howey
In a post-apocalyptic world, people live in a giant silo underground, but secrets threaten to unravel their society.
The story of Wool takes place on a post-apocalyptic Earth. , Humanity clings to survival in the Silo, a subterranean city extending one hundred forty-four stories beneath the surface. The series ... (Wikipedia)
Skyward
by Brandon Sanderson
A young girl dreams of becoming a pilot and proving her father's innocence in a world where flight is forbidden.
Spensa is a 17-year-old girl who is part of a group of shipwrecked humans living on a ruined world called Detritus, under constant attack from mysterious aliens called the Krell. Spensa dreams of ... (Wikipedia)
Shift
by Hugh Howey
A post-apocalyptic adventure, as a father searches for his missing daughter in a mysterious new world.
In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct ... (Goodreads)
The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman
A soldier's story of the horror of war and its consequences in the far future.
The monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic— Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi,The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce ... (Barnes & Noble)
The Light Fantastic
by Terry Pratchett
An adventure to save the world from a mysterious, magical force threatening to destroy it.
The book begins shortly after the ending of, The Colour of Magic, , with wizard Rincewind , Twoflower and the Luggage falling from the Discworld. They are saved when the Octavo , the most powerful ... (Wikipedia)
Foundation's Edge
by Isaac Asimov
A quest to discover the truth behind the mysterious origins of the galactic empire.
Five hundred years after the establishment of the Foundation, the Mayor of Terminus , Harla Branno , is basking in a political glow, her policies having been vindicated by the recent successful ... (Wikipedia)
Annabel
by Lauren Oliver
A girl falls in love with a ghost, and they must navigate the boundaries between life and death to be together.
Lena's mother, Annabel, has always been a mystery—a ghost in Lena's past. Until now. Discover her secrets in Lauren Oliver's brilliant original digital story set in the world of New York Times ... (Goodreads)
The Girl with All the Gifts
by M.R. Carey
A post-apocalyptic world where a young girl holds the key to humanity's survival.
Twenty years ago humanity was infected by a variant of the fungus native to South America called Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which led to the Breakdown - the end of civilization as it was before. ... (Wikipedia)
The Passage
by Justin Cronin
A post-apocalyptic tale of survival, as the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.
The novel is broken into 11 parts of varying lengths. The story itself is broken into two sections: the first and shorter section covers the origins of the virus and its outbreak, while the second is ... (Wikipedia)
Exit Strategy
by Martha Wells
Murderbot is back, trying to protect its human friends while navigating dangerous situations and uncovering corporate conspiracies.
Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of ... (Goodreads)
Children of Dune
by Frank Herbert
Epic saga of a royal family's struggle for power and the fate of their desert planet.
Nine years after Emperor Paul Muad'Dib walked into the desert, blind, the ecological transformation of Dune has reached the point where some Fremen are living without stillsuits in the less arid ... (Wikipedia)
