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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Design Flaw
These are tales of seekers, often damaged, who find themselves caught up in skewed realities, facing lurking threats, violent deaths, strange entities, and alienating technologies, driven toward self-revelation and perverse moments of poignancy.
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Hot Moon
The US and the Soviets both have permanent moon bases, and the Cold War is hotter than ever. The crew of Apollo 32, commanded by Vivian Carter, career astronaut, docks at NASA's Columbia space station when they are caught in the crossfire as four Soviet Soyuz craft assault the orbiting station.
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Begin the World Over
Begin the World Over is a counterfactual novel about the Founders’ greatest fear—that Black and Indigenous people might join forces to undo the newly formed United States of America—coming true.
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Walk the Vanished Earth
Told over seven generations, this sweeping family epic explores ancestry, legacy, motherhood, the trauma we inherit and the power of connection in the face of our planet's imminent collapse.
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January Fifteenth
January Fifteenth—the day all Americans receive their annual Universal Basic Income payment, aka “Waste Day”, when rich kids across the country compete to see who can most obscenely squander the government’s money.
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A Fractured Infinity
A thrilling race across the multiverse to save the infinite Earths – and the love of your life – from total destruction.
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Scattered All Over the Earth
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as "the land of sushi." Hiruko searches for anyone who can still speak her mother tongue, Hiruko soon makes new friends.
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Eyes of the Void
Facing impending extinction, an Intermediary decides to help the Human Colonies stop the Architects who are back consuming entire planets after 80 years of a fragile peace, in the second novel of the series following Shards of Earth.
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Terraform
Drawing from established luminaries, rising stars and surprising newcomers, this collection of original stories is divided into three categories—Watch/Worlds/Burn—and take on surveillance, artificial intelligence and climate collapse.
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Voices From the Radium Age
This collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth centurh, representing what volume and series editor Joshua Glenn has dubbed “the Radium Age”—the period when science fiction as we know it emerged as a genre.
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