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A good pick for readers who want science-driven suspense about biotechnology and the ethical questions surrounding genetic ownership.
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Sci-Fi · Thriller · Genetic Engineering · Speculative Fiction · Techno-Thriller
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Scientists, corporations, and families become entangled in genetic engineering and disputes over who owns human DNA. A good pick for readers who want science-driven suspense about biotechnology and the ethical questions surrounding genetic ownership.
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From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions.
Welcome to our genetic world.
Fast, furious, and out of control.
This is not the world of the future—it's the world right now.
Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blonds becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only four hundred genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease?
We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars and to test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one-fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else—and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes....
The future is closer than you think.
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This will appeal to readers who want thoughtful speculative fiction about time, secrecy, fate, and difficult choices.
The Other Valley
Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Speculative Fiction
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A national bestseller called “a mind-bending take on time travel” by The New York Times, this literary speculative novel follows sixteen-year-old Odile, who lives in a town bordered by versions of itself twenty years in the past and future and discovers that the boy she cares about is going to die, with a 3.9-star average from more than 28,300 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want thoughtful speculative fiction about time, secrecy, fate, and difficult choices.
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*Soon to be a TV series*
Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick
For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and future, and a young girl who spots two elderly visitors from across the border: the grieving parents of the boy she loves.
Sixteen-year-old Odile vies for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. To the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness.
When Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see, she realizes that the parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border from the future, on a mourning tour, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present.
Edme—who is brilliant, funny, and the only person to truly know Odile—is going to die. Sworn to secrecy to preserve the timeline, Odile now becomes the Conseil’s top candidate. Yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy, jeopardizing her entire future.
“The Other Valley is a brilliant take on time travel and a thought-provoking exploration of the boundaries between fate and choice. Make room on your shelves, folks, this book is going to knock your socks off” (Sylvain Neuvel, author of Sleeping Giants).
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With a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,300 Amazon reviewers, it is a sharp fit for readers drawn to satirical science fiction, dark humor, evolution, and humanity’s self-inflicted…
Galapagos
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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Called “a madcap genealogical adventure” by The New York Times Book Review, Galápagos follows a small group of cruise passengers stranded on the islands after an apocalypse, where they become the ancestors of a radically different human race. With a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,300 Amazon reviewers, it is a sharp fit for readers drawn to satirical science fiction, dark humor, evolution, and humanity’s self-inflicted problems.
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“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book Review
Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’ s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry–and all that is worth saving.
Praise for Galápagos
“The best Vonnegut novel yet!”—John Irving
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Memory becomes a survival problem when a girl wakes with violent hunger and no understanding of what she is.
Fledgling
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering · Speculative Fiction
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Memory becomes a survival problem when a girl wakes with violent hunger and no understanding of what she is. In Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler follows an amnesiac vampire forced to uncover her stolen past, her altered biology, and the enemies still hunting her. This speculative vampire novel examines identity, otherness, power, and humanity through a story shaped by danger and discovery.
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Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted—and still wants—to destroy her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human.
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A child with no voice and a past that defies time draws strangers together across the vast distances of space.
The Vanished Birds
Sci-Fi · Literary Fiction · Space Opera · Speculative Fiction
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A child with no voice and a past that defies time draws strangers together across the vast distances of space. In The Vanished Birds, a ship captain, a solitary woman, and a mysterious boy form a fragile family shaped by loss and longing. This is a reflective science fiction novel that blends space opera with intimate emotion, exploring connection, memory, and the cost of progress.
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A “highly imaginative and utterly exhilarating” (Thrillist) debut that is “the best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives” (Kirkus Reviews, Best Debut Fiction and Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year).
FINALIST FOR THE LOCUS AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TORDOTCOM AND KIRKUS REVIEWS
A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever.
I expected many things from this trip. I did not expect a family.
A ship captain, unfettered from time. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. A millennia-old woman, haunted by lifetimes of mistakes. In this captivating debut of connection across space and time, these outsiders will find in each other the things they lack: a place of love and belonging. A safe haven. A new beginning.
But the past hungers for them, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.
Praise for The Vanished Birds
“This is the most impressive debut of 2020.”—Locus
“This extraordinary science fiction epic, which delves deep into the perils of failing to learn from one’s mistakes, is perfect for fans of big ideas and intimate reflections.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A lyrical and moving narrative of space travel, found families, and lost loves set against an evocative space-opera background.”—Booklist (starred review)
“The Vanished Birds finds an intimate heartbeat of longing in a saga of galactic progress and its crushing fallout. . . . A novel of vast scope that yet makes time for compassion, wonder, and poetry.”—Indra Das, author of The Devourers
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Faith, wonder, and catastrophe converge in The Sparrow, where a mission meant to make peaceful first contact ends in profound ruin.
The Sparrow
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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Faith, wonder, and catastrophe converge in The Sparrow, where a mission meant to make peaceful first contact ends in profound ruin. Jesuit priest and linguist Emilio Sandoz leads an expedition to intelligent extraterrestrial life, but small misunderstandings slowly turn hope into devastation. This is thoughtful, emotionally intense science fiction that pairs first-contact discovery with questions of belief, guilt, and the cost of human certainty.
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A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end.
Praise for The Sparrow
“A startling, engrossing, and moral work of fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Powerful . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Provocative, challenging . . . recalls both Arthur C. Clarke and H. G. Wells, with a dash of Ray Bradbury for good measure.”—The Dallas Morning News
“[Mary Doria] Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense.”—USA Today
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Saving humanity sounds noble right up until someone plants a bomb on the ship.
The Deep Sky
Post-Apocalyptic · Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Speculative Fiction
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Saving humanity sounds noble right up until someone plants a bomb on the ship. The Deep Sky follows a generation ship mission carrying Earth’s last hope, where one deadly explosion leaves the crew terrified, suspicious, and increasingly willing to turn on each other. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is stuck at the center of the chaos in this tense sci-fi thriller that blends space survival, buried secrets, and the kind of pressure that makes trust feel almost fictional.
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Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew.
They left Earth to save humanity. They’ll have to save themselves first.
It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect.
As the mystery unfolds on the ship, poignant flashbacks reveal how Asuka came to be picked for the mission. Despite struggling through training back on Earth, she was chosen to represent Japan, a country she only partly knows as a half-Japanese girl raised in America. But estranged from her mother back home, The Phoenix is all she has left.
With the crew turning on each other, Asuka is determined to find the culprit before they all lose faith in the mission—or worse, the bomber strikes again.
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A missing cat case opens the door to a conspiracy that bends time itself.
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Sci-Fi · Speculative Fiction · Time Travel
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A missing cat case opens the door to a conspiracy that bends time itself. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, an unconventional private investigator follows the principle that everything connects, uncovering a ghost with a plan to rewrite its own fate. This science fiction mystery blends time travel, metaphysical puzzles, and high-stakes consequences into a story where coincidence hides a larger design.
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From Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction classics of all time, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, comes a wildly inventive novel of ghosts, time travel, and one detective’s mission to save humanity from extinction.
DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
We solve the whole crime.
We find the whole person.
Phone today for the whole solution to your problem.
(Missing cats and messy divorces a specialty)
In this novel from the legendary Douglas Adams, quirky and bumbling Private Investigator Dirk Gently stumbles upon a million-year-old ghost, wandering the earth and disturbing all its people. What he uncovers is the ghost’s desperate plot to go back in time to prevent its own death. But this ghost was no ordinary person, and helping it save itself just might change the modern world as we know it. And not in a good way.
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Wild Seed unfolds as a centuries-long confrontation between two immortals bound by power, desire, and control.
Wild Seed
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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Wild Seed unfolds as a centuries-long confrontation between two immortals bound by power, desire, and control. Doro shapes humanity through ruthless breeding and domination, while Anyanwu builds communities through healing and care. When their paths collide, attraction becomes coercion and survival becomes negotiation. This novel explores immortality, consent, and legacy through an intimate struggle that reshapes generations.
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From the acclaimed author of the Earthseed series, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together and changing the destiny of the human race.
Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one—until he meets Anyanwu.
Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing aging. She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu—until she meets Doro.
The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her; and from the villages of 17th-century Nigeria to 19th-century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generations, irrevocably changing what it means to be human.
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Grief settles into the body, reshaping memory, identity, and the boundaries of the self.
Garden of Earthly Bodies
Speculative Fiction · Horror · Psychological Fiction
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Grief settles into the body, reshaping memory, identity, and the boundaries of the self. In Garden of Earthly Bodies, Marianne seeks healing after her sister’s death at a remote rehabilitation center where trauma manifests as physical change. As transformation deepens, the novel explores loss, sisterhood, and the terrifying possibility that relief from pain may require surrendering who we are.
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Sally Oliver’s Garden of Earthly Bodies is an exquisitely eerie and unsettling speculative novel that grapples with questions of trauma, identity, and the workings of memory.
Named a Best New Book by Bustle, Book Riot, and Tor.com
Months after her sister’s death, Marianne wakes up to find a growth of thick black hairs along her spine. They defy her attempts to remove them, instead proliferating, growing longer. The hairs, Marianne’s doctor tells her, are a reaction to trauma, developed in the wake of the loss of her sister, Marie. Her doctor recommends that Marianne visits Nede, a modern, New Age rehabilitation center in a remote forest in Wales where the patients attend unorthodox therapy sessions and commune with nature.
Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As the hairs on her back continue to grow, the past starts to entangle itself with the present and the borders of her consciousness threaten to disintegrate. She finds herself drawn back compulsively to the memory of Marie, obsessing over the impulse that drew her sister toward death and splintered her family apart. As Marianne’s memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.
Haunting, lyrical, and introspective, Garden of Earthly Bodies is a startlingly accomplished and original debut about the bond between two sisters, love and its limits, and our inability to ever truly know the minds of others. With an intense and precise attention to the internal workings of minds and bodies and a disturbing speculative plot, the novel welcomes an assured new voice to the genre.
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Achilles and Hector unite against the gods who control their fates as Olympus itself becomes a battlefield.
Olympos
Speculative Fiction · Sci-Fi · Space Opera · Time Travel
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Achilles and Hector unite against the gods who control their fates as Olympus itself becomes a battlefield. While divine power crumbles, humanity faces annihilation from its own creations. This sweeping science fiction epic blends myth, futurism, and rebellion, concluding the Ilium saga with 4.4 stars on Amazon and enduring acclaim.
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Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine manipulators; before the swift and terrible mechanical creatures that catered for centuries to the pitiful idle remnants of Earth's human race began massing in the millions, to exterminate rather than serve.
And now all bets are off.
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Reincarnation Blues follows Milo, who has lived nearly ten thousand lives in pursuit of wisdom, meaning, and one impossible love.
Reincarnation Blues
Literary Fiction · Romance · Contemporary Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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Reincarnation Blues follows Milo, who has lived nearly ten thousand lives in pursuit of wisdom, meaning, and one impossible love. With only five chances left before oblivion, he keeps returning to existence for Death herself, his constant companion between lives. Funny, tender, and cosmic in scope, this novel blends romance and philosophy in a darkly enchanting exploration of existence by Michael Poore.
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A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself.
“This book made me laugh out loud. And then a page later, it made me sob. Reminiscent of Tom Robbins and Christopher Moore, Poore finds humor in the dark absurdities of life.”—Chicago Review of Books
First we live. Then we die. And then . . . we get another try?
Ten thousand tries, to be exact. Ten thousand lives to “get it right.” Answer all the Big Questions. Achieve Wisdom. And Become One with Everything.
Milo has had 9,995 chances so far and has just five more lives to earn a place in the cosmic soul. If he doesn’t make the cut, oblivion awaits. But all Milo really wants is to fall forever into the arms of Death. Or Suzie, as he calls her.
More than just Milo’s lover throughout his countless layovers in the Afterlife, Suzie is literally his reason for living—as he dives into one new existence after another, praying for the day he’ll never have to leave her side again.
But Reincarnation Blues is more than a great love story: Every journey from cradle to grave offers Milo more pieces of the great cosmic puzzle—if only he can piece them together in time to finally understand what it means to be part of something bigger than infinity. Darkly enchanting and wisely hilarious, Michael Poore’s Reincarnation Blues is the story of everything that makes life profound, beautiful, absurd, and heartbreaking.
Because it’s more than Milo and Suzie’s story. It’s your story, too.
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