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by Annalee Newitz
Published Aug 2025
Read ReviewsA cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz.
by Anton Hur
Published Jul 2025
Read ReviewsNegotiating 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 bestselling translator that sets out to answer the question: What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology?
by Jayson Greene
Published Jun 2025
Read ReviewsFrom the author of Once More We Saw Stars comes a gripping novel about four intertwined lives that collide in the wake of a mysterious tragedy. Set in a near-future world where the boundaries between human and AI blur, the story challenges our understanding of consciousness and humanity.
by Ali Smith
Published Feb 2025
Read ReviewsFrom a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing.
by Lindsey Drager
Published Aug 2024
Read ReviewsAt once an ode to birds, an elegy to space, and a journey into the most haunted and uncanny corners of the human mind, The Avian Hourglass showcases Lindsey Drager's signature brilliance in a stunning, surrealist novel for fans of Jesse Ball, Helen Oyeyemi, Yoko Ogawa, and Shirley Jackson.
by Ben H. Winters
Published Mar 2024
Read ReviewsIn this "wild and wonderful" (Lou Berney) corporate espionage thriller that takes the adage "time is money" and makes it frighteningly so, an everywoman FDA employee stumbles upon a dark, clandestine conspiracy to harvest and sell people's time.
by Emily St. John Mandel
Published Mar 2023
Read ReviewsThe award-winning, best-selling 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 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
by Jennifer Egan
Published Mar 2023
Read ReviewsFrom one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a "sibling novel" to her Pulitzer Prize- and NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad - an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer private.
by Nnedi Okorafor
Published Jul 2022
Read ReviewsFrom African futurist luminary Okorafor comes a new science fiction novel of intense action and thoughtful rumination on biotechnology, destiny, and humanity in a near-future Nigeria.
by C. Robert Cargill
Published Mar 2022
Read ReviewsIn this harrowing apocalyptic adventure - from the author of the critically acclaimed Sea of Rust - noted novelist and co-screenwriter of Marvel's Doctor Strange C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between humans and robots in a crumbling world.
by Sarah Lotz
Published Mar 2022
Read ReviewsIn this funny and poignant novel, two strangers learn that their soul mate might be both as close as breath and as distant as a star, from British Fantasy Award recipient Sarah Lotz.
by Megan Angelo
Published Nov 2020
Read ReviewsAn electrifying story of two ambitious friends, the dark choices they make and the profound moment that changes the meaning of privacy forever.
by Marc-Uwe Kling
Published Jan 2020
Read ReviewsWhat if the perfect world wasn't built for you?
by Daphne Du Maurier
Published Feb 2018
Read ReviewsDispatch the maimed, the old, the weak, destroy the very world itself, for what is the point of life if the promise of fulfilment lies elsewhere?
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsA tale of deceptive simplicity that slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance – and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro's finest work.
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