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Toward Eternity

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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The Book of Elsewhere

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.

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The Stars Too Fondly

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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The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, Book 1)

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…

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Walking Practice

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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Jumpnauts

Hao Jingfang, Ken Liu (trans.)

A first contact SF novel, from the Hugo Award winning author of Folding Beijing.

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A View from the Stars

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…

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The Three-Body Problem (gift edition)

Cixin Liu

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.

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Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

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…

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Prophet

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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Service Model

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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More Perfect

Temi Oh

A reimagining of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus

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Bridge

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.

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Hyperion

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.

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Sea of Tranquility

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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Fledgling

Octavia E. Butler

The final ground-breaking novel from renowned, bestselling author Octavia E. Butler.

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The Ferryman

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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Ascension

Nicholas Binge

"Old-school creepy... a five-star horror novel." STEPHEN KING

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group…

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Frontier

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.

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Ready Player One

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…

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Exhalation

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…

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Skyward (Skyward, Book 1)

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…

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Starsight (Skyward, Book 2)

Brandon Sanderson

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…

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Cytonic (Skyward, Book 3)

Brandon Sanderson

The third in Brandon Sanderson’s unstoppable, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling series, which began with Skyward!

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Defiant (Skyward, Book 4)

Brandon Sanderson

The fourth and final novel in Brandon Sanderson’s unstoppable, New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling series, which began with Skyward!

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Skyward Flight: The Collection: Sunreach, ReDawn, Evershore

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.

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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson

‘It is by turns, scary, thrilling, tragic, witty and - ultimately - uplifting’ - James Lovegrove

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Termination Shock

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.

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Camp Zero

Michelle Min Sterling

The old world is broken. Be part of a better future.

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The Terraformers

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…

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Eversion

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.

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Project Hail Mary

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…

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The Expert System’s Champion

Adrian Tchaikovsky

In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Expert System’s Champion, sometimes the ones you hate are the only ones that can save you.

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Dead Astronauts

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…

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The Human

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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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

Christopher Paolini

A masterful epic science fiction novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Paolini.

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built

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…

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Axiom’s End

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.

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Truth of the Divine

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.

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Apostles of Mercy (Export paperback)

Lindsay Ellis

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…

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Agency

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.

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Dawn (Lilith’s Brood, Book 1)

Octavia E. Butler

LILITH’S BROOD 1: one woman is called upon to reconstruct humanity in this hopeful, thought-provoking novel.

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Adulthood Rites (Lilith’s Brood, Book 2)

Octavia E. Butler

LILITH’S BROOD 2: one young man with extraordinary gifts must reconcile his own heritage before he can change the fate of humanity.

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Imago (Lilith’s Brood, Book 3)

Octavia E. Butler

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.

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Ender’s Game: Book 1 of the Ender Saga

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…

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Winter’s Orbit

Everina Maxwell

Ancillary Justice meets Gideon the Ninth in this thrilling space opera from a debut author.

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Doing Time: a hilarious new spinoff from the Chronicles of St Mary’s series

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.

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Hard Time: a bestselling time-travel adventure like no other

Jodi Taylor

Book 2 in the internationally bestselling Time Police series, a spin-off from the Chronicles of St Mary’s.

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Sci-fi

Toward Eternity

The Book of Elsewhere

The Stars Too Fondly

The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, Book 1)

Walking Practice

Jumpnauts

A View from the Stars

The Three-Body Problem (gift edition)

Lake of Souls: The Collected Short Fiction

Prophet

Service Model

More Perfect

Bridge

Hyperion

Sea of Tranquility

Fledgling

The Ferryman

Ascension

Frontier

Ready Player One

Exhalation

Skyward (Skyward, Book 1)

Starsight (Skyward, Book 2)

Cytonic (Skyward, Book 3)

Defiant (Skyward, Book 4)

Skyward Flight: The Collection: Sunreach, ReDawn, Evershore

I Am Legend

Termination Shock

Camp Zero

The Terraformers

Eversion

Project Hail Mary

The Expert System’s Champion

Dead Astronauts

The Human

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

Axiom’s End

Truth of the Divine

Apostles of Mercy (Export paperback)

Agency

Dawn (Lilith’s Brood, Book 1)

Adulthood Rites (Lilith’s Brood, Book 2)

Imago (Lilith’s Brood, Book 3)

Ender’s Game: Book 1 of the Ender Saga

Winter’s Orbit

Doing Time: a hilarious new spinoff from the Chronicles of St Mary’s series

Hard Time: a bestselling time-travel adventure like no other