Science Fiction
A variety of recently published science fiction titles recommended by our librarians. Annotations by NoveList unless otherwise noted.
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Chain-gang All-stars
The star of a popular, but controversial for-profit program in the private prison industry that basically turns prisoners into gladiators contemplates freedom.
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Afterglow
Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need.
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The Splinter in the Sky
The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor’s surrender means little to a lowly scribe like Enitan. All she wants is to quit her day job and expand her fledgling tea business. But when her lover is assassinated and her sibling is abducted by Imperial soldiers, Enitan abandons her idyllic plans and weaves her tea tray up through the heart of the Vaalbaran capital. There, she will learn just how far she is willing to go to exact vengeance, free her sibling, and perhaps even secure her homeland’s freedom.
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This Great Hemisphere
When authorities claim her brother, who was presumed dead, is alive -- and the main suspect in the murder of the Chief Executive of Northwestern Hemisphere, Candace, a young invisible woman, must find him before it's too late in a world where no one and nothing is ever as it seems.
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Prophet
An adventure fusing noir, sci-fi and a slow burn queer romance is set in a universe just one perilous step from our own.
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Navigational Entanglements
Jockeying navigator clans guide spaceships through the Hollows: an area of space populated by the mysterious but deadly creatures known as Tanglers. When a Tangler escapes the Hollows for the first time in living memory, each clan must send a representative to help capture it--but the mission may be doomed and the hearts of two clan juniors may be in danger too.
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The Ministry of Time
A time travel romance, a spy thriller, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all.
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The Scourge Between Stars
A tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls.
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The Archive Undying
When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its city, and all its wondrous works. But in its final death throes, the god brought one thing back to life: its favorite child, Sunai. For the seventeen years since, Sunai has walked the land like a ghost, unable to die, unable to age, and unable to forget the horrors he's seen. He's run as far as he can from the wreckage of his faith, drowning himself in drink, drugs, and men. But when Sunai wakes up in the bed of the one man he never should have slept with, he finds himself on a path straight back into the world of gods and machines.
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Rakesfall
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelidand Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages. No world can hold them, no life can bind them, and they'll never leave each other behind.
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