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Readers who enjoy multitimeline speculative fiction about Maya history, identity, religion, and imagined future societies should find plenty to like here.
The Actual Star
Alternate History · Historical Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Sci-Fi
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New Scientist called it “A stone-cold masterpiece.” Three stories set in 1012, 2012, and 3012 follow characters separated by centuries whose lives converge around the same sacred cave in Belize, with a 3.9-star average from more than 2,900 Goodreads ratings. Readers who enjoy multitimeline speculative fiction about Maya history, identity, religion, and imagined future societies should find plenty to like here.
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David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler's Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) crafts an unforgettable piece of speculative fiction about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we're going—and how, in every age, the same forces that drive us apart also bind us together.
"A stone-cold masterpiece."—New Scientist
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents—telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart, all of them converging in the same cave in the Belizean jungle.
Braided together are the stories of a pair of teenage twins who ascend the throne of a Maya kingdom; a young American woman on a trip of self-discovery in Belize; and two dangerous charismatics vying for the leadership of a new religion, racing toward a confrontation that will determine the fate of the few humans left on Earth after massive climate change.
In each era, a reincarnated trinity of souls navigates the entanglements of tradition and progress, sister and stranger, and love and hate—until all of their age-old questions about the nature of existence converge deep underground, where only in complete darkness can they truly see.
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A 4.4-star New York Times bestseller, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is Hank Green’s compulsively readable debut about viral fame, global mystery, and the strange intimacy of internet culture.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi
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A 4.4-star New York Times bestseller, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is Hank Green’s compulsively readable debut about viral fame, global mystery, and the strange intimacy of internet culture. When alien statues appear worldwide, one woman becomes their accidental spokesperson—and the center of an online storm. Smart, weird, and wildly relevant, this is sci-fi for the age of influencers.
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The Carls just appeared—and April May just became famous.
When 23-year-old April stumbles across a towering, armored statue in Manhattan, she uploads a quick video. By morning, it’s viral. By nightfall, she’s a global sensation. But she’s not the only one—Carls have appeared in cities around the world, and April’s at the center of the mystery.
Fame comes fast, and it comes with a cost. As April navigates her skyrocketing celebrity, cryptic clues, and internet-fueled chaos, she must decide what kind of icon she wants to be—and what the Carls really want.
Smart, funny, and unsettlingly prescient, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is a dazzling debut that blends sci-fi mystery with a razor-sharp look at fame, identity, and the internet’s power to build—or destroy.
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Featuring a queer, robot-human love story and razor-sharp commentary on capitalism, this thought-provoking debut is perfect for fans of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson.
Autonomous
Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk · Hard Sci-Fi
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A Hugo finalist with 4.3 stars on Amazon, Autonomous by Annalee Newitz is a gripping biotech thriller set in a future where ownership is everything. Featuring a queer, robot-human love story and razor-sharp commentary on capitalism, this thought-provoking debut is perfect for fans of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. Freedom isn’t free—especially when you’re patented.
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In 2144, everything is owned—drugs, data, even people.
Jack is a rogue scientist-turned-drug pirate, fighting Big Pharma with bootlegged meds for the poor. But her latest hack goes wrong. The drug she reverse-engineered makes users addicted to work—fatally so. Now she’s being hunted.
On her trail: Eliasz, a government agent with a violent past, and Paladin, a newly minted military robot learning to navigate identity, desire, and loyalty.
As their chase spans continents and moral lines blur, Autonomous asks what freedom really means in a world run by corporations and bound by patents. Can autonomy exist when ownership defines everything?
Tense, smart, and wildly original, Annalee Newitz’s Hugo-nominated debut is Neuromancer for the biotech age—a bold fusion of hard sci-fi and urgent ethical questions.
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Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards, This Is How You Lose the Time War (4.5 stars on Amazon) is a poetic, breathtaking romance between two rival…
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Romance · Sci-Fi · Time Travel
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Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards, This Is How You Lose the Time War (4.5 stars on Amazon) is a poetic, breathtaking romance between two rival time-traveling agents. Written by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, this genre-defying novella is intimate, epic, and unforgettable. If you're going to fall in love, make it across centuries.
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In a war across time, victory means everything—until love rewrites the rules.
Red and Blue are rival agents from opposite futures, trained to twist history in their factions’ favor. But when one leaves a taunting letter for the other—Burn before reading—a secret correspondence begins. What starts as enemy banter becomes poetry, vulnerability, and something dangerous: affection.
Their growing bond defies time, space, and duty. But in a universe where discovery means death, love might be the greatest risk of all.
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards, This Is How You Lose the Time War is a dazzling epistolary romance bursting with lyrical prose, daring concepts, and heart-wrenching intimacy.
Because sometimes, in the middle of war, you find something worth losing everything for.
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A 4.3-star New York Times bestseller, The Bone Season launches Samantha Shannon’s acclaimed dystopian fantasy series.
The Bone Season
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult
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A 4.3-star New York Times bestseller, The Bone Season launches Samantha Shannon’s acclaimed dystopian fantasy series. Dreamwalker Paige Mahoney is a fugitive clairvoyant in a regime where her very existence is treason. Arrested and thrust into a secret city, she faces an ancient power and a dangerous alliance. Dark, brilliant, and utterly immersive.
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In 2059, being clairvoyant is a crime—and Paige Mahoney is very, very guilty.
As a dreamwalker, Paige works in London’s underground, using her rare powers to infiltrate minds. But under the Republic of Scion, “unnaturalness” is punishable by death. When she’s arrested for a murder she didn’t commit, Paige expects execution.
Instead, she’s taken to a hidden prison city and handed over to Scion’s secret rulers—inhuman beings with their own dark agenda.
To survive, Paige must harness her gift, outwit her captors, and decide whether to trust the enemy whose help might be her only way out.
With sweeping worldbuilding, a fierce heroine, and a simmering slow-burn romance, The Bone Season is the explosive start to Samantha Shannon’s epic dystopian fantasy saga.
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A strong match for readers drawn to political intrigue, interstellar mysteries, and questions of cultural identity.
A Memory Called Empire
Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Called “All around brilliant space opera” by Ann Leckie, this novel follows Ambassador Mahit Dzmare as she investigates her predecessor’s murder while trying to protect her independent home station from an expanding empire. A strong match for readers drawn to political intrigue, interstellar mysteries, and questions of cultural identity.
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Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel
A Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019
An NPR Favorite Book of 2019
An Esquire Best Sci-Fi Book of All Time
A Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and “Not the Booker Prize” Nominee
A Goodreads Biggest SFF Book of 2019 and Choice Awards Nominee
"A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it."—Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident—or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.
Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion—all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret—one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life—or rescue it from annihilation.
Arkady Martine's debut novel A Memory Called Empire is a fascinating space opera and an interstellar mystery adventure.
"The most thrilling ride ever. This book has everything I love."—Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky
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It fits readers who want sharp space opera tension, capable leads, and an enemies-to-lovers romance threaded through high-stakes intrigue.
Eclipse the Moon
Romance · Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Desire becomes dangerous when the mission leaves no room for distraction and even less room for trust. In Eclipse the Moon, bounty hunter Kee Ildez hunts the forces trying to trigger interstellar war, only to end up stranded behind enemy lines with the guarded weapons expert she cannot stop wanting. It fits readers who want sharp space opera tension, capable leads, and an enemies-to-lovers romance threaded through high-stakes intrigue.
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Acclaimed author Jessie Mihalik returns with an exciting new novel about a rainbow-haired female bounty hunter tasked with preventing an interstellar war.
Kee Ildez has been many things: hacker, soldier, bounty hunter. She never expected to be a hero, but when a shadowy group of traitors starts trying to goad the galaxy’s two superpowers into instigating an interstellar war, Kee throws herself into the search to find out who is responsible—and stop them.
Digging up hidden information is her job, so hunting traitors should be a piece of cake, but the primary suspect spent years in the military, and someone powerful is still covering his tracks. Disrupting their plans will require the help of her entire team, including Varro Runkow, a Valovian weapons expert who makes her pulse race.
Quiet, grumpy, and incredibly handsome, Varro watches her with hot eyes but ignores all of her flirting, so Kee silently vows to keep her feelings strictly platonic. But that vow will be put to the test when she and Varro are forced to leave the safety of their ship and venture into enemy territory alone.
Cut off from the rest of their team, they must figure out how to work together—and fast—because a single misstep will cost thousands of lives.
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Perfect for fans of Dune and The Fall of Hyperion looking for something far stranger.
The Stars Are Legion
Sci-Fi
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Memory lost. War raging. Worlds dying. The Stars Are Legion is a ferocious, all-female space opera where power is flesh and rebellion is survival. With 4.0 stars on Amazon, Kameron Hurley delivers a wildly original sci-fi epic packed with blood, betrayal, and cosmic horror. Perfect for fans of Dune and The Fall of Hyperion looking for something far stranger.
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On the edge of the universe, the Legion drifts—a mass of dying world-ships locked in endless war and rot.
Zan wakes with no memory, held prisoner by people who claim to be her family. They tell her she is their salvation, the only one who can board the Mokshi, a living ship with the power to escape the Legion's decay. But other factions want that power too, and the path forward is soaked in blood and betrayal.
As Zan fights her way through the monstrous innards of biomechanical worlds, she must confront who she was and what she must become. Inside her may lie the future of the Legion—or its complete destruction.
The Stars Are Legion is a brutal, visionary space opera filled with body horror, revolution, and raw, defiant hope.
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An elite interstellar agent lands on a volatile planet expecting political trouble and finds something far stranger waiting for him.
The Godmakers
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration
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An elite interstellar agent lands on a volatile planet expecting political trouble and finds something far stranger waiting for him. In The Godmakers, Lewis Orne’s mission shifts when he develops extraordinary psychic powers and is drawn into the world of Hamal’s so-called gods. What follows blends galactic intrigue, evolving identity, and big questions about power, destiny, and what it really means to become more than human.
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An interstellar agent discovers his latent powers while investigating a warlike planet in this classic sci-fi fantasy by the author of Dune.
It's been centuries since the devastating Rim Wars separated numerous planets from the protection and control of the galactic empire. The Rediscovery and Reeducation Service is dedicated to finding these "lost planets" and returning them to the fold. But not all civilizations are eager to cooperate.
Young and charismatic, Lewis Orne is one of the best R&R agents in the organization's history. But when he identifies troubling signs on the planet of Hamal, he is transferred to Investigative Adjustment, the agency that specializes in dealing with violent worlds. Suddenly, Orne is shuttling to the edge of the galaxy to detect any signs of latent aggression among Hamal's population.
Shortly after making landfall, Orne makes a far more astonishing discovery: he suddenly finds himself in possession of profound extrasensory powers. When these powers become known, he is invited to join Hamal's company of "gods." It is an offer too enticing to refuse. Yet being a god comes with certain expectations . . .
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A strong match for readers who like large-scale space opera, alien threats, damaged heroes, political pursuit, and found-family crews.
Shards of Earth
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering · Speculative Fiction
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Called “the breakout star of contemporary British SF” by the Guardian, Adrian Tchaikovsky follows Idris, an enhanced war hero living aboard a salvage vessel fifty years after the Architects destroyed Earth and vanished. When his crew discovers evidence of their return, they become targets for gangsters, cults, and governments, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 14,900 Amazon reviewers. A strong match for readers who like large-scale space opera, alien threats, damaged heroes, political pursuit, and found-family crews.
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The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all.
"Tchaikovsky is the breakout star of contemporary British SF." —Guardian
The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery ...
Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers.
After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared—and Idris and his kind became obsolete.Now, fifty years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space. It's clearly the work of the Architects—but are they returning? And if so, why?
Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy hunting for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, that many would kill to obtain.
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The Last Dance is a thrilling sci-fi mystery with 4.4 stars on Amazon, perfect for fans of The Expanse.
The Last Dance
Sci-Fi
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Mutiny in space. One captain accused. One investigator searching for the truth. The Last Dance is a thrilling sci-fi mystery with 4.4 stars on Amazon, perfect for fans of The Expanse. As Inspector Park unravels the fate of the Aldrin’s crew, she faces a tangle of loyalties, political pressure, and secrets hiding in the void between Earth and Mars.
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Mutiny in space is a death sentence. But what if the accused is a hero?
Inspector General Park Yerim boards the Earth-Mars vessel Aldrin to investigate a charge that could shatter reputations and redefine loyalty. Captain Nicolau Aames stands accused of disobeying orders. The System Initiative wants him punished. His crew says he saved them.
As Park interviews the crew on their long voyage to Mars, she uncovers a web of heroism, conflict, and political pressure. Every testimony reveals a new layer of truth or deception. Powerful interests circle, and the line between justice and manipulation blurs.
The Last Dance is a gripping sci-fi mystery that unfolds between worlds. With echoes of The Expanse and 12 Angry Men, it is a story of loyalty, command, and the cost of truth in the silence of space.
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A brilliant boy.
The Boy on the Bridge
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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A brilliant boy. A crumbling world. A mission with everything at stake. The Boy on the Bridge, set in the universe of The Girl With All the Gifts, is a gripping standalone about science, survival, and sacrifice. With 4.4 stars on Amazon, M. R. Carey’s haunting tale blends horror and heart in a powerful exploration of humanity at the edge.
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One exceptional boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in this riveting post-apocalyptic standalone set in the same world as the USA Today-bestselling The Girl With All the Gifts.
Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy.
The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world.
To where the monsters lived.
"Strange and surprising and humane" (Lauren Beukes), The Boy on the Bridge is a gripping, powerful story that will make you question what it means to be human.
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