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Discover futuristic technology, alien worlds and time travel with these science fiction recommendations.
Anton Hur
Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility, a brilliant, haunting speculative novel from a #1 New York Times…
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Keanu Reeves, China Mieville
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic of ancient powers, modern war, and an outcast who cannot die.
Emily Hamilton
Part space odyssey, part Sapphic romcom and all spaceship-stealing fun, Emily Hamilton's breathtaking debut is a wild tale of galaxy-spanning friendship, improbable love, and wonder as vast as the universe…
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James S. A. Corey
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Expanse comes a spectacular new space opera that sees humanity fighting for its survival in a war as old as the…
Dolki Min, Victoria Caudle (trans.)
Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an…
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Hao Jingfang, Ken Liu (trans.)
A first contact SF novel, from the Hugo Award winning author of Folding Beijing.
Cixin Liu
A View from the Stars features a range of short works from the past three decades of New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu's prolific career, putting his nonfiction essays…
Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon now a major Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones.
Ann Leckie
Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, forever changing its landscape with her groundbreaking ideas and powerful voice. Now, available…
Helen Macdonald, Sin Blache
Daring, surprising and superbly plotted, this is a fresh, thrilling page-turner from a dynamic new duo in genre fiction
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
Charles (TM), the latest in robo-butler technology, has accidentally murdered his master. Exiled and confused, he goes on a journey of self-discovery that might just change the world. Written with…
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Temi Oh
A reimagining of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus
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Lauren Beukes
The mind-bending new masterpiece from the multi-award-winning author of Apple TV’s smash hit literary adaptation Shining Girls starring Elizabeth Moss.
Dan Simmons
The book that reinvented Space Opera, from the Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning author of The Terror, which is now a chilling TV show.
Emily St. John Mandel
The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time, love and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912…
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Octavia E. Butler
The final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler.
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Justin Cronin
The much-anticipated new novel by the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Passage Trilogy.
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Nicholas Binge
"Old-school creepy... a five-star horror novel." STEPHEN KING
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Grace Curtis
Frontier is a heartfelt queer romance in a high noon standoff with Earth’s uncertain future, full of love, loss, and laser guns.
Ernest Cline
It’s the year 2044, and the real world has become an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes this depressing reality by spending his waking hours jacked into…
Ted Chiang
From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story ‘The Story of Your Life’ was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited second collection of stunningly original…
Brandon Sanderson
From Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, and the internationally bestselling Mistborn series, comes the first book in an epic…
The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Skyward! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reckoners series, Words of Radiance, the Mistborn trilogy, and The Stormlight…
The third in Brandon Sanderson’s unstoppable, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling series, which began with Skyward!
The fourth and final novel in Brandon Sanderson’s unstoppable, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling series, which began with Skyward!
Brandon Sanderson,Janci Patterson
From number one best-selling author Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson comes a stunning collection of novellas in Skyward series: Sunreach, ReDawn and Evershore.
Richard Matheson
‘It is by turns, scary, thrilling, tragic, witty and - ultimately - uplifting’ - James Lovegrove
Neal Stephenson
A visionary new science fiction technothriller about climate change from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem. Reamde, and Cryptonomicon.
Michelle Min Sterling
The old world is broken. Be part of a better future.
Annalee Newitz
A science fiction epic for our times and a love letter to our future, The Terraformers will take you on a journey spanning thousands of years and exploring the triumphs…
Alastair Reynolds
Eversion is a superb, original Gothic SF novel unlike anything else you’ve read. Strap in for the smartest, most mind-bending, edge-of-the-seat read of 2022.
Andy Weir
The SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES bestselling novel from The Martian author, Andy Weir.
AS SEEN ON BARACK OBAMA’S 2021 SUMMER READING LIST ‘THE MOST ENJOYABLE HARD SF I…
In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Expert System’s Champion, sometimes the ones you hate are the only ones that can save you.
Jeff VanderMeer
Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters - Grayson, Morse and Chen - shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that…
Neal Asher
A warship is laying waste to the galaxy, committing incredible acts of war. So old enemies must work together - or face annihilation. This is the high-octane conclusion to Neal…
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Christopher Paolini
A masterful epic science fiction novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Paolini.
Becky Chambers
Just when the world needs it comes a story of kindness and hope from one of the masters of Hopepunk. Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers’s delightful new series gives us hope…
Lindsay Ellis
An alternate history first contact adventure set in the early 2000’s, pitched as Arrival meets The Three-Body Problem, by video essayist Lindsay Ellis.
Sequel to instant New York Times bestseller Axiom’s End, in Truth of the Divine, Lindsay Ellis deepens her exploration of a world faced with the presence of extra terrestrial intelligence.
The third novel in the series that began with instant New York Times bestseller Axiom's End, this alternate history first-contact adventure deepens the exploration of a world faced with extra…
William Gibson
They call Verity ‘the app-whisperer’, and she’s just been hired by a shadowy start-up to evaluate a pair-of-glasses-cum-digital-assistant called Eunice. Only Eunice has other ideas.
LILITH’S BROOD 1: one woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel.
LILITH’S BROOD 2: one young man with extraordinary gifts must reconcile his own heritage before he can change the fate of humanity.
LILITH’S BROOD 3: the acclaimed trilogy concludes with the story of Jodah, child of the Earth and stars, who risks the future of humanity just by growing up.
Orson Scott Card
Ender Wiggin is Battle School’s latest recruit. His teachers reckon he could become a great leader. And they need one. A vast alien force is headed for Earth, its mission…
Everina Maxwell
Ancillary Justice meets Gideon the Ninth in this thrilling space opera from a debut author.
Jodi Taylor
Introducing The Time Police, the brand-new series from international bestseller Jodi Taylor - an irresistible spinoff from The Chronicles of St Mary’s series.
Book 2 in the internationally bestselling Time Police series, a spin-off from the Chronicles of St Mary’s.