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Becky Chambers, bestselling author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, delivers the Hugo Award–winning A Psalm for the Wild-Built.
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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Becky Chambers, bestselling author of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, delivers the Hugo Award–winning A Psalm for the Wild-Built. This gentle yet profound sci-fi begins the Monk and Robot series, where a tea monk and a curious machine set out to answer what humanity truly needs. With 4.4 out of 5 stars, it’s hopeful, tender, and unforgettable.
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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; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.
One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered.
But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how.
They're going to need to ask it a lot.
Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?
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After a heartbreak-driven mistake, a man from a perfect future becomes stranded in our flawed present.
All Our Wrong Todays
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Time Travel
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After a heartbreak-driven mistake, a man from a perfect future becomes stranded in our flawed present. As timelines collide, he discovers unexpected love and a chance to redefine himself. This acclaimed science fiction novel blends humor, heart, and time travel, holding 4.2 stars on Amazon and widespread critical praise.
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“Entertainingly mixes thrills and humor.”—Entertainment Weekly
“[An] amazing debut novel....Dazzling and complex....Fearlessly funny storytelling.”—The Washington Post
“Instantly engaging....A timeless, if mind-bending, story about the journeys we take, populated by friends, family, lovers, and others, that show us who we might be, could be—and maybe never should be—that eventually leads us to who we are.”—USA Today
Elan Mastai's acclaimed debut novel is a story of friendship and family, of unexpected journeys and alternate paths, and of love in its multitude of forms.
It's 2016, and in Tom Barren's world, technology has solved all of humanity's problems—there's no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocadoes. Unfortunately, Tom isn't happy. He's lost the girl of his dreams. And what do you do when you're heartbroken and have a time machine? Something stupid.
Finding himself stranded in a terrible alternate reality—which we immediately recognize as our 2016—Tom is desperate to fix his mistake and go home. Right up until the moment he discovers wonderfully unexpected versions of his family, his career, and the woman who may just be the love of his life.
Now Tom faces an impossible choice. Go back to his perfect but loveless life. Or stay in our messy reality with a soulmate by his side. His search for the answer takes him across continents and timelines in a quest to figure out, finally, who he really is and what his future—our future—is supposed to be.
Filled with humor and heart and packed with insight, intelligence, and mind-bending invention, All Our Wrong Todays is a powerful and moving story of life, loss, and love.
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The Illustrated Man turns the human body into a map of possible futures, each tattoo revealing another fear, wonder, or warning.
The Illustrated Man
Literary Fiction · Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Speculative Fiction
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The Illustrated Man turns the human body into a map of possible futures, each tattoo revealing another fear, wonder, or warning. Through eighteen connected stories, Ray Bradbury explores space travel, technology, loneliness, violence, and longing with classic speculative precision. This belongs in any sci-fi list built around imagination with a darker edge, where every vision feels both distant and uncomfortably close.
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“Sometimes at night I can feel them, the pictures, likeants, crawling on my skin. Then I know they’re doing what they have to do . . . ”
Fantasy master Ray Bradbury weaves a narrative spanning fromthe depths of humankind’s fears to the summit of their achievements in eighteeninterconnected stories—visions of the future tattooed onto the body of anenigmatic traveler—in The Illustrated Man, one of the essential classicsof speculative fiction from the author of The Martian Chronicles, DandelionWine, and The October Country.
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From her place in a storefront, an Artificial Friend studies the world with patient devotion, waiting to be chosen.
Klara and the Sun
Literary Fiction · Dystopian · Contemporary Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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From her place in a storefront, an Artificial Friend studies the world with patient devotion, waiting to be chosen. In Klara and the Sun, Klara enters a household where illness and ambition shape a fragile family dynamic, and her faith in the Sun becomes both comfort and quiet rebellion. This literary science fiction novel reflects on artificial intelligence, loneliness, and the meaning of love through an observant, restrained voice.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick!
Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to near-future science fiction, time-spanning mysteries, and technologically complex worlds.
The Peripheral
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk · Hard Sci-Fi · Techno-Thriller
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Flynne Fisher, a struggling worker in rural America, witnesses a murder while filling in for her brother on a mysterious virtual security job and becomes connected to Wilf Netherton, a publicist living more than seventy years in the future. Their meeting draws both worlds into a fast-paced science fiction thriller about technology, class, and power, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 11,700 Amazon reviewers. A sharp fit for readers drawn to near-future science fiction, time-spanning mysteries, and technologically complex worlds.
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The New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer and Agency presents a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that takes a terrifying look into the future.
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Flynne Fisher lives down a country road, in a rural America where jobs are scarce, unless you count illegal drug manufacture, which she’s trying to avoid. Her brother Burton lives on money from the Veterans Administration, for neurological damage suffered in the Marines’ elite Haptic Recon unit. Flynne earns what she can by assembling product at the local 3D printshop. She made more as a combat scout in an online game, playing for a rich man, but she’s had to let the shooter games go.
Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Things are pretty good now, for the haves, and there aren’t many have-nots left. Wilf, a high-powered publicist and celebrity-minder, fancies himself a romantic misfit, in a society where reaching into the past is just another hobby.
Burton’s been moonlighting online, secretly working security in some game prototype, a virtual world that looks vaguely like London, but a lot weirder. He’s got Flynne taking over shifts, promised her the game’s not a shooter. Still, the crime she witnesses there is plenty bad.
Flynne and Wilf are about to meet one another. Her world will be altered utterly, irrevocably, and Wilf’s, for all its decadence and power, will learn that some of these third-world types from the past can be badass.
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Fast-paced and provocative, this gripping debut is perfect for fans of survival suspense.
The Last One
Dystopian · Thriller · Post-Apocalyptic · Psychological Thriller
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Alexandra Oliva’s The Last One—with 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon—blends survival thriller with biting social commentary. When a reality TV contestant named Zoo stumbles on real devastation, she must decide if it’s part of the show or the collapse of civilization itself. Fast-paced and provocative, this gripping debut is perfect for fans of survival suspense.
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Survival is the name of the game as the line blurs between reality TV and reality itself in Alexandra Oliva’s fast-paced novel of suspense.
She wanted an adventure. She never imagined it would go this far.
It begins with a reality TV show. Twelve contestants are sent into the woods to face challenges that will test the limits of their endurance. While they are out there, something terrible happens—but how widespread is the destruction, and has it occurred naturally or is it man-made? Cut off from society, the contestants know nothing of it. When one of them—a young woman the show’s producers call Zoo—stumbles across the devastation, she can imagine only that it is part of the game.
Alone and disoriented, Zoo is heavy with doubt regarding the life—and husband—she left behind, but she refuses to quit. Staggering countless miles across unfamiliar territory, Zoo must summon all her survival skills—and learn new ones as she goes.
But as her emotional and physical reserves dwindle, she grasps that the real world might have been altered in terrifying ways—and her ability to parse the charade will be either her triumph or her undoing.
Sophisticated and provocative, The Last One is a novel that forces us to confront the role that media plays in our perception of what is real: how readily we cast our judgments, how easily we are manipulated.
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Rosewater begins with a city built around an alien presence, where hope, exploitation, and fear gather at the edge of the unknown.
Rosewater
Sci-Fi · Dystopian · First Contact · Hard Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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Rosewater begins with a city built around an alien presence, where hope, exploitation, and fear gather at the edge of the unknown. Kaaro, a government agent with a criminal past and psychic abilities, wants distance from the biodome, but a pattern of deaths forces him back toward its secrets. This is science fiction shaped by alien mystery, political pressure, and unsettling transformation.
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Rosewater is the start of an award-winning trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging voices.
*Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, winner
*Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel, winner
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless -- people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers.
Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn't care to again -- but when something begins killing off others like himself, Kaaro must defy his masters to search for an answer, facing his dark history and coming to a realization about a horrifying future.
Tade Thompson's innovative, genre-bending, Afrofuturist series, the Wormwood Trilogy, is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. K. Jemisin, and Ann Leckie.
Praise for Rosewater:
"Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!" —Ann Leckie, award winning-author of Ancillary Justice
"Mesmerising. There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here, but this astonishing debut is beholden to no one." —M. R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl with All the Gifts
"A magnificent tour de force, skillfully written and full of original and disturbing ideas." —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time
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John Marrs’s The Marriage Act, a Goodreads Choice Award nominee with 4.1 stars and over 42,000 Goodreads ratings, delivers a terrifying dystopian thriller.
The Marriage Act
Dystopian
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John Marrs’s The Marriage Act, a Goodreads Choice Award nominee with 4.1 stars and over 42,000 Goodreads ratings, delivers a terrifying dystopian thriller. In near-future Britain, the Sanctity of Marriage Act makes wedlock the law, punishing those who resist. With lives monitored and relationships weaponized, four couples face betrayal, survival, and control in Marrs’s most unsettling page-turner yet.
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In near-future Britain, marriage isn’t a choice, it’s the law. The government’s Sanctity of Marriage Act claims to cure society’s ills, rewarding couples who comply and punishing those who refuse. Every interaction is monitored, every word logged, every disagreement turned into evidence.
Four couples are about to learn what happens when love is no longer private. For some, the pressure will expose hidden betrayals. For others, the system itself becomes the greatest danger of all. And for everyone, disobedience means consequences they may not survive.
John Marrs’s The Marriage Act, a Goodreads Choice Award nominee, is a chilling dystopian thriller in the tradition of Black Mirror and The Power. Twisty, terrifying, and disturbingly plausible, it asks the ultimate question: dare you disobey?
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Suzanne Collins’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, a 4.6-star New York Times bestseller with over one million Goodreads ratings, returns to Panem decades before Katniss.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Dystopian · Teen + Young Adult
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Suzanne Collins’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, a 4.6-star New York Times bestseller with over one million Goodreads ratings, returns to Panem decades before Katniss. Eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow must mentor a tribute from District 12 in the tenth Hunger Games, where ambition, survival, and power collide. Gripping, brutal, and unforgettable, this prequel reveals the making of a tyrant.
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Years before Katniss Everdeen entered the arena, the Hunger Games were still new, brutal, and evolving. On the morning of the tenth reaping, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow faces his one chance to restore his family’s fading legacy. As a mentor, he must outwit his peers and guide his tribute to victory, securing his place among the Capitol elite.
But Snow’s assignment is humiliating: the female tribute from District 12. Survival seems impossible, and the odds stacked high against them. Yet as he grows entangled in her fate, Coriolanus confronts choices that blur the line between compassion and ambition.
Suzanne Collins’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a chilling prequel to The Hunger Games, revealing the dark rise of a man shaped by power and fear.
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Robert Silverberg’s Across a Billion Years—from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning master of science fiction—unfolds an interstellar mystery filled with ancient aliens, peril, and discovery.
Across a Billion Years
Sci-Fi · Dystopian · First Contact · Space Exploration
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Robert Silverberg’s Across a Billion Years—from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning master of science fiction—unfolds an interstellar mystery filled with ancient aliens, peril, and discovery. With 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this gripping classic follows a young archaeologist whose first expedition turns into a galaxy-spanning chase for a civilization thought long gone.
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Tom Rice thought his first assignment as a graduate student would be straightforward: join a team of archaeologists and dig through the remains of an ancient alien civilization. The High Ones ruled the galaxy millennia ago, and now only fragments of their culture remain—cryptic artifacts scattered across the stars.
When the team uncovers a “message cube” containing living images of the High Ones, everything changes. The footage suggests these beings may not be extinct after all. What began as an academic mission suddenly becomes a dangerous pursuit across the cosmos.
Each discovery leads to new peril, as Tom and his crew hurtle toward answers that could rewrite humanity’s place in the universe. Some relics should be left buried. This one refuses to stay quiet.
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Bleak, brutal, and unforgettable, it is perfect for fans of dystopian science fiction and dying-earth sagas.
Cage of Souls
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Hard Sci-Fi
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Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Cage of Souls is a far-future epic of survival on a dying Earth. With 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this award-winning author delivers a haunting tale of rebellion, imprisonment, and mutation in humanity’s last city. Bleak, brutal, and unforgettable, it is perfect for fans of dystopian science fiction and dying-earth sagas.
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The sun is dying, bloated and diseased, and with it humanity fades.
In Shadrapar, the last city on Earth, fewer than 100,000 souls survive among the ruins of countless fallen civilizations. It is a place of prisons and asylums, a city built on desperation. Here lives Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, and reluctant witness to the end of the world.
From the scorched deserts to the fetid jungles to the labyrinths below the earth, Stefan’s journey drags him through a landscape where monsters, madmen, and mutants thrive. Each step reveals a world that no longer belongs to humanity.
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Cage of Souls is a far-future epic of survival and ruin, a haunting chronicle of humanity’s final struggle against a planet that has turned against it.
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T. Hernandez’s The Ruins, book two of The Union series, is a 4.3-star YA dystopian romance full of danger, betrayal, and heartache.
The Ruins
Dystopian · Teen + Young Adult
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T. Hernandez’s The Ruins, book two of The Union series, is a 4.3-star YA dystopian romance full of danger, betrayal, and heartache. Grieving and hunted, Evan must warn citizens of an impending rebel attack while protecting her friends in the Ruins. Survival is uncertain, trust is scarce, and love is tested in this gripping continuation of the series.
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Seventeen-year-old Evan Taylor thought returning to the Union would mean safety. Instead, grief and guilt consume her, and the boy she loved remains behind. When she and her friends uncover a rebel plan to attack, they face an impossible mission: warn the citizens without alerting the government—or condemning their allies in the Ruins.
But Evan’s every move is blocked, her steps shadowed by unseen watchers. With nowhere else to turn, she returns to the Ruins, where survival is brutal and truth is even more dangerous. Each day is a fight to outwit her pursuers, to stay alive, and to protect the people she loves.
T. Hernandez’s The Ruins, book two of The Union series, is a tense YA dystopian romance filled with danger, loyalty, and impossible choices.
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