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Perfect for fans of bold, socially charged speculative fiction.
The Jagged Orbit
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk
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With 4.1 out of 5 stars, John Brunner’s The Jagged Orbit is a Nebula Award finalist from the author of Stand on Zanzibar. A satirical, chilling portrait of a future ravaged by corruption, surveillance, and violence, it’s a classic of dystopian science fiction that feels eerily relevant today. Perfect for fans of bold, socially charged speculative fiction.
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Technology was meant to liberate mankind. Instead, it has shackled society in chains of surveillance, addiction, and violence. In John Brunner’s The Jagged Orbit, a Nebula Award finalist, the future is collapsing under the weight of corruption, drug abuse, and the ruthless control of those deemed “insane.”
From high-level government conspiracies to the crumbling streets below, Brunner’s near-future world is one of chaos, cruelty, and absurdity so sharp it cuts, so real it feels inevitable. Told with his signature mix of biting satire, chilling plausibility, and relentless imagination, this novel confronts the terrifying consequences of unchecked power.
Written at the height of Brunner’s vision, The Jagged Orbit is as disturbing today as when it was first published. The question is whether we can avoid living it.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to dystopian literary fiction with social commentary, violent spectacle, resistance, and moral complexity.
Chain Gang All Stars
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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National Book Award finalist Chain-Gang All-Stars follows Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker, imprisoned women and partners who compete in televised death matches for the possibility of freedom. Their story examines the prison system, systemic racism, capitalism, and the transformation of human suffering into entertainment. A sharp fit for readers drawn to dystopian literary fiction with social commentary, violent spectacle, resistance, and moral complexity.
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A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE
“This book is so good. Brutal subject matter, beautiful writing. This one is from the heart.” —Stephen King
A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Elle, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Lit Hub, Kirkus Reviews
“Like Orwell’s 1984 and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Adjei-Brenyah’s book presents a dystopian vision so…illuminating that it should permanently shift our understanding of who we are and what we’re capable of doing.” —The Washington Post
She felt their eyes, all those executioners…
Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of the Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. It’s the return of the gladiators, and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
In CAPE, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs, competing in death matches before packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx, both teammates and lovers, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links, Thurwar considers how she might help preserve their humanity, in defiance of these so-called games. But CAPE’s corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo, and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar’s path have devastating consequences.
Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors, to the CAPE employees and beyond, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic, excoriating look at the American prison system’s unholy alliance of systemic racism, unchecked capitalism, and mass incarceration, and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means from a “new and necessary American voice” (Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review).
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A must-read for fans of sci-fi horror, corporate intrigue, and monsters that don’t care about quarterly reports.
Alien: The Cold Forge
Horror · Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion
Our take
Alex White delivers a pulse-pounding Alien novel packed with corporate espionage, human treachery, and terrifying Xenomorph horror. Praised for its brutal tension and sharp prose, Alien: The Cold Forge holds a 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon. A must-read for fans of sci-fi horror, corporate intrigue, and monsters that don’t care about quarterly reports.
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Weyland-Yutani doesn’t give up easily. After losing their prized Xenomorph specimens at Hadley’s Hope, the Company is determined to bounce back with a new project: the Cold Forge. Aboard remote station RB-232, scientists push the limits of biology in pursuit of the ultimate weapon.
Enter Dorian Sudler, a ruthless corporate auditor whose job is to sniff out weakness and betrayal. But when whispers of a spy surface, Sudler’s mission twists into a deadly game of paranoia. Someone aboard isn’t loyal to the Company—and that’s a capital offense.
Meanwhile, the Xenomorphs themselves are multiplying, their hunger uncontained. If the saboteur strikes, the entire station could go up in flames… or worse, be overrun.
Who will survive when corporate greed collides with perfect predators?
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Nnedi Okorafor’s Remote Control (4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon) is a haunting Afrofuturistic novella.
Remote Control
Grim Dark · Sci-Fi · First Contact
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Nnedi Okorafor’s Remote Control (4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon) is a haunting Afrofuturistic novella. Known as Death’s adopted daughter, Sankofa roams Ghana with the power to kill at a touch, searching for the alien artifact that transformed her. A lyrical blend of mystery, science fiction, and female empowerment from a multi-award-winning author.
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The day Fatima forgot her name, Death claimed her as its own. Now called Sankofa, she wanders from town to town, a lone girl with a fox at her side and the power to kill with a single touch.
Once, she was just a child. Then a mysterious object fell from the sky, gifting her an alien power she barely understands. Feared as Death’s adopted daughter, she is hunted, revered, and whispered about in equal measure.
Sankofa searches for the artifact that changed her life, seeking answers in a world that greets her with awe and terror.
In Remote Control, Nebula and Hugo Award–winner Nnedi Okorafor delivers an Afrofuturistic tale of mystery, community, and a girl learning to wield the power that remade her.
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Iain M. Banks’s Use of Weapons (4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon) is a ferociously intelligent Culture novel of intrigue, war, and buried secrets.
Use of Weapons
Grim Dark · Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Opera
Our take
Iain M. Banks’s Use of Weapons (4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon) is a ferociously intelligent Culture novel of intrigue, war, and buried secrets. Special Circumstances agent Zakalwe changes worlds to suit the Culture’s aims, but the truth of his past is darker than anyone imagines. A masterwork of wit, brutality, and haunting revelation.
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Cheradenine Zakalwe is one of Special Circumstances’ most formidable agents, a man who reshapes the destinies of planets through diplomacy, deception, and calculated violence. Recruited from obscurity by Diziet Sma, he has become a master of the Culture’s shadowy interventions—though she still does not truly know the man she commands.
The drone Skaffen-Amtiskaw knows them both. It once saved Sma’s life in a bloody display of machine efficiency, yet it sees Zakalwe as a doomed soul beyond redemption. What neither Sma nor the drone fully understand are the horrors buried deep in his past.
In Use of Weapons, Iain M. Banks crafts a brilliant, unsettling tale of power, morality, and memory, where every act of heroism carries a shadow, and every weapon leaves its mark.
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Ella Blake’s Selected by the Dragon Alien (4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon) is a sizzling sci-fi romance of forbidden love and rebellion.
Selected by the Dragon Alien
Romance · Sci-Fi · First Contact
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Ella Blake’s Selected by the Dragon Alien (4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon) is a sizzling sci-fi romance of forbidden love and rebellion. When Turi is taken to the fortress of a powerful zaruxian overseer, passion sparks and dangerous secrets emerge. Together, they must decide whether love is worth defying the Axis itself.
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Turi has always known she would be bonded to a mate she had never met, but life in Settlement 112-1 leaves little room for dreams. When an abduction goes wrong, she ends up in the fortress of Ellion, the powerful zaruxian overseer of her people.
Ellion has ruled the terian settlements for centuries, with no memory of his life before. Saving Turi from raiders shatters his carefully ordered world, awakening feelings he has never allowed himself to explore. As their connection deepens, long-buried memories begin to resurface.
Together, they uncover dark truths about the Axis, the entity controlling their world. Choosing love could cost them everything, but surrendering to the Axis might mean losing themselves entirely.
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Edited and translated by Ken Liu, Broken Stars (4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon) features sixteen must-read stories from China’s leading science fiction authors, plus essays on…
Broken Stars
Sci-Fi
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Edited and translated by Ken Liu, Broken Stars (4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon) features sixteen must-read stories from China’s leading science fiction authors, plus essays on the genre’s growth. From time-bending futures to mysterious space-bound trains, this collection is a vibrant showcase of imagination and innovation in global speculative fiction.
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Broken Stars, edited and translated by award-winning author Ken Liu, gathers sixteen groundbreaking short stories from China’s most visionary science fiction writers.
In Liu Cixin’s Moonlight, a man is contacted by three future versions of himself, each desperate to save their world. Hao Jingfang’s The New Year Train takes 1,500 passengers on a journey into space when their train mysteriously vanishes. Tang Fei’s title story reveals how the stars themselves can foretell the future.
Alongside these tales are three insightful essays on the history and rise of Chinese science fiction, the growth of fandom, and how global attention is transforming the genre.
Dazzling, thought-provoking, and richly imaginative, Broken Stars is an essential collection that celebrates the bold voices shaping the future of speculative fiction.
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Chloe Archer’s It’s Not Unusual to Be Loved by an Alien (4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon) is a hilarious, steamy M/M sci-fi romcom.
It’s Not Unusual To Be Loved by an Alien
LGBTQIA+ · Romance · Sci-Fi
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Chloe Archer’s It’s Not Unusual to Be Loved by an Alien (4.7 out of 5 stars on Amazon) is a hilarious, steamy M/M sci-fi romcom. When a geeky human discovers a grumpy alien in Las Vegas, tentacle-fueled chaos and accidental mating rituals ensue. Packed with humor, heart, and heat, this series starter is pure interstellar fun.
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River Sullivan is a proud sci-fi nerd who always believed aliens were out there. He just never expected to find one in Las Vegas—and definitely not the hot, grumpy kind with tentacles. Now he’s stumbled onto the biggest secret in the galaxy and set his sights on winning over his reluctant alien crush.
Kai Genaro wants nothing to do with humans, especially chatty ones with bright green eyes and infuriating charm. But thanks to a cosmic accident involving his tentacles, he may have just initiated the Mating Courtship Ritual with River.
Between zany extraterrestrial shenanigans, secret alien politics, and undeniable chemistry, resisting each other is futile. In It’s Not Unusual to Be Loved by an Alien, the only thing more dangerous than exposure… is falling in love.
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Nicole Blanchard and K Webster’s The Forgotten Commander (4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon) begins the Lost Planet series with a steamy, high-stakes romance.
The Forgotten Commander
Romance · Sci-Fi
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Nicole Blanchard and K Webster’s The Forgotten Commander (4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon) begins the Lost Planet series with a steamy, high-stakes romance. To save his dying world, Commander Breccan secures five human women for breeding. But when one wakes, desire and defiance upend everything, forcing him to choose between duty and his heart.
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Mortuus is dying. Its few survivors live without hope, their future slipping away with every passing day. For Commander Breccan Aloisius, the answer comes in the form of five human women—procured against everything he was taught, but necessary to save his people from extinction.
They are meant to be breeders, kept asleep until the time is right. But when one wakes, everything changes. She is strong, defiant, and nothing like the compliant mate Breccan expected.
Now his mission is no longer just about survival. It is about protecting her, earning her trust, and resisting the pull that could derail his carefully laid plans.
In The Forgotten Commander, passion collides with destiny in the first book of a scorching sci-fi romance series.
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A. G. Wilde’s Xul (4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon) launches the Captured by Aliens series with a steamy, high-stakes romance.
Xul
Romance · Sci-Fi · First Contact
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A. G. Wilde’s Xul (4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon) launches the Captured by Aliens series with a steamy, high-stakes romance. Trapped on a slave ship, Athena’s only chance of escape lies with Xul, a mission-driven alien she finds both maddening and irresistible. Survival, danger, and sizzling attraction make this a must-read sci-fi romance.
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Athena wakes up on an alien slave ship with three options: mate, become a sex slave, or die. None of them are appealing.
When a chance for freedom appears in the form of a dangerously handsome alien named Xul, she takes it. But Xul is on a mission he cannot afford to compromise, and letting her in—especially into his heart—could ruin everything.
Athena finds him infuriating, bossy, and entirely too attractive for her own good. Survival means trusting him, even as they clash at every turn.
In Xul, the first book in the Captured by Aliens series, danger, passion, and reluctant partnership ignite into something neither expected. Steamy, action-packed, and with a guaranteed happily ever after, it is alien romance at its most addictive.
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Steamy, suspenseful, and full of first-contact intrigue, this is a must for fans of slow-burn alien romance.
Saving Askara
Romance · Sci-Fi
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JM Link’s Saving Askara (4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon) launches a thrilling two-part sci-fi romance. When a human medic and an alien leader meet during a desperate escape, their fragile alliance may change the fate of his world. Steamy, suspenseful, and full of first-contact intrigue, this is a must for fans of slow-burn alien romance.
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Victoria’s life aboard the transorbital ship Phoenix is routine and predictable—until the morning it isn’t. As an emergency medicine specialist, she’s always dreamed of meeting intelligent alien life. But when she’s thrust into first contact with a mysterious, battle-scarred alien leader, she begins to realize she may have gotten far more than she wished for.
Aderus and his people have fled captivity, preferring death to returning to their oppressors. Stranded in an uncharted system, they are forced to interact with Earth, a world they consider primitive. But the more Aderus learns, the more one human woman captures his attention.
Their fragile alliance could save his world… or cost them both everything.
Saving Askara is the first part of a steamy, high-stakes sci-fi romance duet.
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Amanda Milo’s Stolen by an Alien (4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon) is a steamy, action-packed alien romance.
Stolen by an Alien
Romance · Sci-Fi · First Contact
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Amanda Milo’s Stolen by an Alien (4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon) is a steamy, action-packed alien romance. When a gladiator rescues a woman he mistakes for a princess, sparks fly. But she is just human, and the truth could cost them both. Dangerous enemies and sizzling chemistry make this an unforgettable sci-fi romance.
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Arokh broke the rules when he stole a rare auction prize from her buyers. He thought he was rescuing a Gryfala princess, but the sharp-tongued, coffee-deprived female he saved is nothing like he imagined. She is human, not royalty, and she has no idea what to do with an alien gladiator who refuses to let her go.
Angie woke up in an alien auction pen with no coffee and no clue how she got there. A huge, intimidating alien swoops in to “save” her, calling her Princess and vowing to protect her. But when he learns the truth, will he still want her?
Between dangerous enemies, mistaken identities, and a growing attraction, their journey will test every limit—and maybe lead to the sweetest happily ever after.
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