Science Fiction
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 November 2022)
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The Unfamiliar Garden
The second novel in his grippingly original sci-fi series, The Comet Cycle, in which a passing comet has caused irreversible change to the growth of fungi, spawning a dangerous, invasive species in the Pacific Northwest that threatens to control the lives of humans and animals alike.
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Self-portrait With Nothing
The startlingly original literary SF thriller reminds us that living our best life sometimes means embracing the imperfect one we already have.
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Stars and Bones
Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks--each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities.
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Sisters of the Forsaken Stars
The Order of Saint Rita, on the run since witnessing and defying Central Governance’s atrocities, must decide the role they will play--and what hand they will have--in reshaping the galaxy when an anti-Earth religious movement calls for a revolution.
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The Employees
On the Six-Thousand Ship, human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and memos, even as tensions boil toward mutiny, especially among the humanoids.
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Eversion
Doctor Silas Coade tries to keep his crew safe while figuring out why maritime disasters keep happening to him in different centuries.
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Lost in Time
When his daughter is falsely accused of murder, a scientist travels 200 million years into the past to try to save her. But there are secrets waiting there. And more than her life is at stake.
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Poster Girl
After the collapse of the Delegation, an oppressive dystopian regime, Sonya is offered a chance at freedom if she finds a missing girl stolen from her parents by the old regime, forcing her to confront a past rife with lies and dark secrets.
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The Kaiju Preservation Society
As COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray finds work with an animal rights organization dedicated to the preservation of massive dinosaur-like creatures from an alternate dimension.
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Maxine Justice
Can a lawyer who failed the bar exam three times find some way to save the world from global and interstellar conspiracies? Or will humankind’s future end in a galactic courtroom?
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