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Virtual reality turns deadly in Escaping Wonderland, a dark sci-fi fantasy romance with 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon.
Escaping Wonderland
Romantasy · Sci-Fi
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Virtual reality turns deadly in Escaping Wonderland, a dark sci-fi fantasy romance with 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon. Tiffany Roberts delivers claws, chaos, and chemistry in this twisted retelling where Alice must trust a seductive monster to survive. Madness is coded into the world, but the danger and desire are all too real.
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Wonderland isn’t real. Alice knows that. Probably.
After being wrongfully committed to an asylum, she wakes in a virtual world built from madness, danger, and titanic mushrooms. The Red King is hunting her. The rules are broken. And the only thing more unsettling than her surroundings is the creature stalking beside her.
Shadow is monstrous, seductive, and completely out of his mind. With claws, glowing eyes, and a grin that shouldn’t comfort her, he offers the one thing Alice hasn’t had in a long time. Hope.
As their bond deepens, so does the madness. And if Alice wants to escape this digital Wonderland, she’ll need to decide what’s real, what’s illusion, and who she’s willing to become.
Especially if love turns out to be the craziest thing of all.
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Altered Carbon opens in a future where death has become a reversible condition, and violence carries different consequences for those who can afford immortality.
Altered Carbon
Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk · Hard Sci-Fi
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Altered Carbon opens in a future where death has become a reversible condition, and violence carries different consequences for those who can afford immortality. When Takeshi Kovacs is returned to life in an unfamiliar body, he is pulled into a murder investigation that exposes how power reshapes identity itself. This is hard-edged science fiction driven by moral decay, bodily displacement, and systemic corruption.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN EXCITING SERIES FROM NETFLIX • The shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning in this “tour de force of genre-bending, a brilliantly realized exercise in science fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.
Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats “existence” as something that can be bought and sold.
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In the aftermath of humanity’s war against thinking machines, old bloodlines, new schools, and dangerous beliefs begin shaping the future of an empire still afraid of its own…
Sisterhood of Dune
Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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In the aftermath of humanity’s war against thinking machines, old bloodlines, new schools, and dangerous beliefs begin shaping the future of an empire still afraid of its own past. Sisterhood of Dune follows the rise of the Bene Gesserit, Mentats, Navigators, and anti-technology zealots as competing visions of power collide across the Imperium.
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The inspiration for the HBO original series DUNE: PROPHECY, coming Fall 2024!
It is 83 years after the last thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took the name of Corrino and established himself as the first Emperor of a new Imperium.
The war hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on politics and Salusa Secundus. The descendants of the disgraced Abulurd Harkonnen have sworn vengeance against Vor, blaming him for the downfall of their noble family.
Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School and, through a terrible ordeal, has become the first Reverend Mother.
The descendants of Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva use mutated, spice-saturated Navigators who fly precursors of Heighliners.
And Gilbertus Albans, ward of the hated thinking machine Erasmus, is teaching humans to become Mentats…while hiding an unbelievable secret.
Led by the fanatic Manford Torondo, the Butlerian movement, fiercely opposed to all forms of "dangerous technology," sweeps across the known universe in mobs, millions strong, destroying everything in its path.
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A girl with a borrowed body.
Nona the Ninth
Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic · Space Opera
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A girl with a borrowed body. A city on the brink. And a birthday she may never see. Nona the Ninth continues Tamsyn Muir’s Hugo-nominated Locked Tomb series with 4.6 stars on Amazon and all the weird necromantic chaos fans crave. Equal parts heartwarming and horrifying, this is sci-fi fantasy at its most original and unforgettable.
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The city is crumbling. The dead are rising. And all Nona wants is a birthday party.
She’s sweet, curious, and loves dogs. She teaches kids, takes beach walks, and tries to be normal. But Nona is not normal. Six months ago, she woke up in a stranger’s body. Now she’s being told she might be the key to stopping the war between the Nine Houses and the rebels at the gates.
She doesn’t want to be a weapon. She wants a life.
With the planet teetering on the edge of ruin and strange dreams haunting her sleep, Nona has to decide who she is, who she wants to be, and what she’s willing to become.
Wildly inventive and deeply emotional, Nona the Ninth is like nothing you’ve read before.
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A structure built as a monument to peace becomes a machine of conquest with entire worlds trapped inside its reach.
Ancestral Machines
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Space Exploration
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A structure built as a monument to peace becomes a machine of conquest with entire worlds trapped inside its reach. In Ancestral Machines, a smuggler captain enters the Warcage to save his crew after an agri-world is torn from orbit, stepping into a brutal space opera shaped by alien power, survival, and ruin on a massive scale.
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A new standalone epic space opera, set in the same world as the Humanity's Fire trilogy.
No world is safe.
The Warcage: two hundred worlds harnessed to an articial sun in a feat of unprecedented stellar engineering. Built to travel through space as a monument to peace between alien species, now its voracious rulers have turned it into a nightmarish wasteland, capturing new planets for slaves and resources, then discarding the old.
Now, when a verdant agri-world is pulled out of its orbit, the captain of a smuggler ship must journey into the Warcage to rescue his crew.
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The Twelve are gone.
The City of Mirrors
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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The Twelve are gone. But Zero—the First—isn’t finished. The City of Mirrors brings Justin Cronin’s bestselling trilogy to a staggering close. With 4.6 stars on Amazon, this finale blends literary beauty with post-apocalyptic terror. As Amy prepares for the final reckoning, light and darkness collide. Stephen King calls it “one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”
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The world fell. The monsters ruled. The Twelve are dead—but the First still waits.
A century of darkness is ending. Amy, the Girl from Nowhere, has become humanity’s final light. But far from the hopeful rebuild, in the ruins of a dead city, Zero—the origin of the viral plague—broods. His heartbreak forged apocalypse. His rage could finish it.
As survivors step into fragile sunlight, Amy and her friends must face one last, impossible reckoning. The fate of the world depends on whether she can stop a being who was once a man—and who still remembers love.
The City of Mirrors delivers the sweeping, devastating conclusion to The Passage trilogy—part horror epic, part literary masterwork, and all-consuming from first page to last.
The end is here. Who will survive it?
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In 2045, the virtual universe known as the OASIS offers escape from a dying world.
Ready Player One
Dystopian · Hard Sci-Fi
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In 2045, the virtual universe known as the OASIS offers escape from a dying world. When its creator’s death sparks a contest for control, gamer Wade Watts joins the race of his life. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a thrilling sci-fi adventure of danger, friendship, and the power of imagination.
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A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?
In the year 2045, the real world is bleak and broken. For Wade Watts, escape means logging into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual universe where anything is possible and everything is at stake. When the system’s eccentric creator dies, he leaves behind a contest: whoever solves his hidden puzzles will inherit his fortune—and control the OASIS itself.
But when Wade uncovers the first clue, the game turns deadly. Rivals become killers, alliances blur, and survival becomes the only goal.
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is a fast-paced, nostalgic sci-fi adventure filled with puzzles, pop culture, and the electrifying power of chasing your dreams in both the virtual and real worlds.
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Wizards, warships, and apocalyptic stakes collide in The Captain by Will Wight.
The Captain
Sci-Fi · Epic Fantasy · Sword and Sorcery
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Wizards, warships, and apocalyptic stakes collide in The Captain by Will Wight. After merging with six alternate selves, Varic Vallenar gains power beyond belief—and memories of every gruesome death. With 4.8 stars on Amazon, this sci-fi fantasy is an action-packed search for a mythical ship that may be the galaxy’s last hope.
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Wizards don’t usually worry about cyborgs. Or alien supersoldiers. Or planet-eating bugs. Varic Vallenar isn’t most wizards.
On a backwater world, Varic performs a risky spell to merge with his alternate selves. He gains their magic—and their horrifying memories. Each one died fighting something terrifying. Now Varic knows what’s coming, and even with unmatched magical power, it’s not enough.
This galaxy isn’t just dangerous. It’s dying.
With threats ranging from secret syndicates to undead armies, Varic’s only hope lies in a long-lost legend: a mythical starship called The Last Horizon. Built to face the impossible. Manned by heroes.
If it’s real, it could be the answer. If it’s not, he’ll be the next one to fall.
To survive this galaxy, you need more than magic. You need a miracle.
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Outlaws, uplifted dolphins, and a galaxy on the brink.
Heaven’s Reach
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Hard Sci-Fi
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Outlaws, uplifted dolphins, and a galaxy on the brink. This thrilling sci-fi epic from the New York Times bestselling author of Startide Rising delivers nonstop adventure, sweeping scale, and a mystery that threatens all life. With 4.4 stars on Amazon and a prophecy no one wants to see fulfilled, Heaven’s Reach is space opera that hits hard and fast.
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War has come to Jijo, and this time, the galaxy is watching.
Six outlawed races found fragile peace on a hidden planet. That peace ends when the Jophur arrive—ancient enemies with a twisted agenda that could unravel everything.
The refugees’ only hope lies with the Earthship Streaker, a vessel crewed by uplifted dolphins and their human commander. Their mission is simple but suicidal: lure the Jophur into space and disappear into the unknown.
Across the stars, things are unraveling fast. Earth is under siege. White dwarfs are exploding without cause. Prophecies are resurfacing. And the secrets aboard Streaker might be powerful enough to shift the fate of the universe.
One crew, one ship, one last shot at survival. The countdown has already started.
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On an island built from the world’s electronic waste, survival depends on enduring the systems that profit from human ruin.
Waste Tide
Dystopian · Hard Sci-Fi · Techno-Thriller
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On an island built from the world’s electronic waste, survival depends on enduring the systems that profit from human ruin. Waste Tide follows Mimi, a migrant waste worker caught in a violent struggle between gangs, investors, and revolutionaries in a near-future China poisoned by capitalism and control. This eco-tech thriller blends class conflict, environmental collapse, and sharp social vision into a story that feels both harrowing and urgently real.
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A Locus Award Finalist for Best First Novel. "An accomplished eco-techno-thriller with heart and soul as well as brain." —David Mitchell, New York Times-bestselling author of Cloud Atlas
Translated by Ken Liu, who brought Cixin Liu's Hugo Award-winning The Three Body Problem to English-speaking readers.
Mimi is drowning in the world's trash.
She's a waste worker on Silicon Isle, where electronics—from cell phones and laptops to bots and bionic limbs—are sent to be recycled. These amass in towering heaps, polluting every spare inch of land. On this island off the coast of China, the fruits of capitalism and consumer culture come to a toxic end.
Mimi and thousands of migrant waste workers like her are lured to Silicon Isle with the promise of steady work and a better life. They're the lifeblood of the island's economy, but are at the mercy of those in power.
A storm is brewing, between ruthless local gangs, warring for control. Ecoterrorists, set on toppling the status quo. American investors, hungry for profit. And a Chinese-American interpreter, searching for his roots.
As these forces collide, a war erupts—between the rich and the poor; between tradition and modern ambition; between humanity's past and its future.
Mimi, and others like her, must decide if they will remain pawns in this war or change the rules of the game altogether.
"A chilling sci-fi novel about class war and trash in near-future China, and the people the world's economy leaves behind . . . Pressingly relevant." —The Verge
"Thrilling . . . fresh." —The Washington Post
"Viscerally gripping action . . . sheer excellence." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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An expanding anomaly in Chile’s Atacama Desert mutates everything it touches.
The Fifth Kind: Awakening
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Techno-Thriller
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An expanding anomaly in Chile’s Atacama Desert mutates everything it touches. In The Fifth Kind, a sci-fi thriller filled with Martian mysteries, buried secrets, and cosmic revelations, a team of experts races to understand what’s coming. With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this gripping adventure will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew.
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Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, satellite images capture something no one can explain—an anomaly thirty kilometers wide that pulses with energy. It’s mutating everything in its path, and whatever it is, it’s getting stronger.
Dr. Shepard, Colonel Peters, and a handpicked team are deployed to investigate. But the truth is far stranger than any of them imagined.
Their search leads from a hidden lab beneath the desert to the surface of Mars itself, uncovering a mystery that stretches beyond human history. A reclusive billionaire may hold answers, but his secrets raise more questions than they solve.
The anomaly is not just a threat. It’s a message. One that could reshape humanity or erase it entirely.
Something is coming. And it’s not waiting for permission.
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From the bestselling author of Dark Matter comes Recursion (4.5 stars on Amazon), a relentless sci-fi thriller where memory becomes a weapon and time is the battlefield.
Recursion
Sci-Fi · Techno-Thriller
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From the bestselling author of Dark Matter comes Recursion (4.5 stars on Amazon), a relentless sci-fi thriller where memory becomes a weapon and time is the battlefield. Named a best book of the year by Time, NPR, and BookRiot, this twisty, high-concept novel is soon to be a Netflix film from Shondaland.
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Reality is coming apart.
Across the world, people are being struck by vivid memories of lives they never lived. It looks like a disease, but there is no infection, no pattern, and no cure. Something deeper is at work. Something that threatens the structure of time itself.
Detective Barry Sutton is chasing the impossible. Neuroscientist Helena Smith is building a device meant to preserve memories. Neither of them is prepared for what they are about to uncover.
As time begins to shift and fracture, Barry and Helena find themselves at the center of a mystery that spans lifetimes. The choices they make could reset everything. Or destroy it.
In Recursion, Blake Crouch delivers a fast-paced, mind-bending thriller about memory, identity, and how far we’ll go to hold on to what matters.
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