Seattle Picks: Science Fiction 2024
A variety of recently published science fiction titles recommended by our librarians. Annotations by NoveList unless otherwise noted.
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The Mars House
A queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee.
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The Blueprint
Solenne Bonet lives in Texas where choice no longer exists. An algorithm determines a Black woman’s occupation, spouse, and residence. Solenne finds solace in penning the biography of Henriette, an ancestor who’d been an enslaved concubine to a wealthy planter in 1800s Louisiana. But history repeats itself when Solenne, lonely and naïve, finds herself entangled with Bastien Martin, a high-ranking government official. Solenne finds the psychological bond unbearable, so she considers alternatives. With Henriette as her guide, she must decide whether and how to leave behind all she knows.
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The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes when he is informed he has been given an opportunity to be educated at the ship’s university. The boy forms a bond with the woman he comes to know as “the professor,” a weary idealist and descendent of the Chained who has spent her career striving for validation, only to fall short at every turn. Together, the boy and the woman will embark on a transformative journey to grasp the design of the chains that fetter them both—and are the key to breaking free.
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Convergence Problems
Sixteen short stories from the author of Shigidi include the tale of a mechanic who agrees to a procedure to increase the electrical conductivity of his skin and of a woman who races to save her brother on Mars.
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Womb City
When a drug-fueled evening causes her to commit a desperate crime, daring to hope she can keep one last secret, Nelah, as the ghost of her victim hunts down the people she loves, must unravel the political conspiracy they were on the verge of exposing--or risk losing everyone.
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These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart
In a queer, noir technothriller of fractured identity and corporate intrigue, a trans woman faces her fear of losing her community as her past chases after her. This bold, thought-provoking debut science-fiction novella from a Lambda Award finalist is an exciting and unpredictable look at the fluid nature of our former and present selves.
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