A variety of recently published science fiction titles recommended by our librarians. Descriptions adapted from Kirkus Review of Books and NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Updated June 2020)
Future Home of the Living God
In a future American police state in which evolution starts moving in reverse, adopted Ceder Hawk Songmaker hides from authorities to protect her unborn child as she seeks her birth family for answers.
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View Future Home of the Living GodThe Stars Are Legion
Zan wakes surrounded by people claiming to be her family, but her memory has been erased. Apparently Zan alone can pilot the world-ship that will deliver their people to safety, but should she trust them?
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View The Stars Are LegionQualityland
In a country where TheShop has already delivered the products you want before you can order them, a machine scrapper named Peter Jobless and his imperfect robots try to return an unwanted item in this scathing satirical look at capitalism.
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View QualitylandSea Change
Ten years after the worldwide agricultural and economic collapse Operative Renata Black, part of the underground scientist group called the Org, must find a traitor in their midst to prevent the world from further destruction. Answers may lie in the Quinault Nation with clients from Renata’s former life as a lawyer.
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View Sea ChangeThe Resisters
Humanity is divided by the employed, the Netted, and the unemployed, or Surplus, in this prescient story about a Surplus girl born with innate physical talents that the state would like to wield. How does a parent defy the rigidly safeguarded and racist AutoAmerica?
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View The ResistersThe Space Between Worlds
Cara is a traverser, one of few individuals who can travel between parallel worlds, an ability made possible only because she is already dead on most of the other Earths in existence. A routine trip to Earth 157 becomes deadly when Cara realizes her doppelganger there has died under mysterious circumstances, and the reasons behind it seem to be leading back to her own life on Earth Zero.
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View The Space Between WorldsA People's Future of the United States
These 25 speculative “badass” stories present cautionary tales and envision more just futures. Edited by Vctor LaValle and John Joseph Adams, this collection shines with such luminary and prescient voices as N. K Jemisin, Tananarive Due, Seanan McGuire, Hugh Howey, and Jamie Ford.
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View A People's Future of the United StatesThe Hidden Girl and Other Stories
Hugo Award-winning author and translator Liu returns with a short story collection showcasing his skills in science fiction and fantasy tales that ask thought-provoking questions.
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View The Hidden Girl and Other StoriesA Memory Called Empire
Mahit Dzmare arrives to occupy an ambassador role in the Teixcalaanli Empire after the predecessor was murdered. Mahit must learn the challenging, complex customs of another planet while searching for the truth about the former ambassador’s death.
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View A Memory Called EmpireThe Psychology of Time Travel
In 1967 four female scientists invent time travel, but when one of the original creators experiences a psychotic break she is cast out, altering the ethical approach to the very work itself going forward. A character-driven novel about time, memory, mental health, and power.
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