A major new novel from one of science fiction’s most powerful voices, AURORA tells the incredible story of our first voyage beyond the solar system. Brilliantly imagined and beautifully told, it is the work of a writer at the height of his powers. Our voyage from Earth began generations ago. […]
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The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on […]
Read MoreOur Fair Eden, Harry Manners
Our Fair Eden is a near-future dystopian mystery, marrying technothriller with hard sci-fi against a background of climate change and spellbinding narrative. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreExodus, Julie Bertagna
Mara’s island home is drowning as the ice caps melt and Earth loses its land to the ocean. But one night, in the ruined virtual world of the Weave, Mara meets the mysterious Fox, a fiery-eyed boy who tells her of sky cities that rise from the sea. Mara sets […]
Read MoreFind Me, Laura van den Berg
Set in a near-future U.S. blighted by disastrous climate change and a baffling, incurable new disease, the book is narrated by Joy, a young woman abandoned as an infant by her mother. Joy spends her first 18 years in a series of grim group and foster homes around Boston. It’s […]
Read MoreClade, James Bradley
From the Sydney Morning Herald: A global deadly virus, the collapse of bee colonies, extreme weather events causing social unrest, eco-refugees, infertility, autism and new advances in technology – these are just some of the themes of James Bradley’s new novel, Clade. Its ambitious span stretches from some time in […]
Read MoreWatermind, M.M. Buckner
From storm drains, illegal dumps, and flooded landfills, all of North America’s most advanced technology flows down the Mississippi River—microchips, nano-devices, pharmaceuticals, genetically modified seed—and lodges in the Louisiana delta. Out of this mire emerges a self-organized neural net, drifting in the water: the Watermind. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreLilith’s Brood, Octavia Butler
Lilith Iyapo is in the Andes, mourning the death of her family, when war destroys Earth. Centuries later, she is resurrected — by miraculously powerful unearthly beings, the Oankali. Driven by an irresistible need to heal others, the Oankali are rescuing our dying planet by merging genetically with mankind. But […]
Read MoreThe Alchemist and the Executioness, Paolo Bacigalupi & Tobias S. Buckell
The Alchemist and the Executioness is the unique collaborative effort of two leading science fiction authors, Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell. Working together for the first time, the authors stepped out of their comfort zone (both primarily write science fiction) to delve into fantasy, producing these linked stories that […]
Read MoreThe Magic Goes Away, Larry Niven
Larry Niven created his popular “Magic Goes Away” universe in 1967, and it has been a source of delight and inspiration ever since. By asking the simple question, What if magic were a finite resource?, Niven brought to life a mesmerizing world of wonder and loss, of hope and despair. […]
Read MoreBoneshaker, Cherie Priest
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill […]
Read MoreThe Color of Distance, Amy Thomson
Juna is the sole survivor of a team of surveyors marooned in the dense and isolated Tendu rain forest, an uninhabitable world for humans. Her only hope for survival is total transformation–and terrifying assimilation–into the amphibian Tendu species. Juna will learn more about her own human nature than ever before. […]
Read MoreThe Quiet War, Paul J. McAuley
This exotic, fast-paced space opera turns on a single question: who decides what it means to be human? Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreThe Dragon Keeper, Mindy Meija
A zookeeper fights to save the animal she loves, even as her own life crumbles around her… Mindy Mejia’s gripping debut novel highlights the perils of captivity and the astonishing ways in which animals evolve. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreThe Water Knife, Paolo Bacigalupi
Coming in the spring of 2015, The Water Knife is a story set in the American Southwest as the dwindling water supply from the Colorado River ignites unrest, a growing division of rich vs. poor, and the struggle for survival. See the New York Times for more on the acquisition […]
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