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The Subtle Art of Folding Space

The Subtle Art of Folding Space

The Subtle Art of Folding Space, is the exhilarating debut science fiction novel from Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author John Chu channels unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of...

The Midnight Taxi

The Midnight Taxi

When the last fare of the night turns up dead in her backseat, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver works off the clock to clear her name in this mystery...

The Hospital at the End of the World

The Hospital at the End of the World

From the author of the acclaimed The World Wasn’t Ready for You comes a thrilling first novel, set in a near future where artificial intelligence runs the world, involving a...

The Bone Thief

The Bone Thief

When a Native teenager vanishes from her small town—a place with dark ties to an elite historical society—archaeologist Syd Walker is called to investigate…from bestselling author Vanessa Lillie. In the...

Death Takes Me

Death Takes Me

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana’s Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence. A city is...

The World Wasn’t Ready for You

The World Wasn’t Ready for You

A gripping story collection reminiscent of the work of Octavia E. Butler, which deftly blends science fiction, horror, and fantasy to examine issues of race, class, and prejudice—an electrifying, oftentimes...

The Deep Sky

The Deep Sky

Yume Kitasei’s The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the...

The Siege of Burning Grass

The Siege of Burning Grass

A stunning meditation on war, nationalism, violence and courage by a rising star of the genre. The Empires of Varkal and Med’ariz have always been at war. Alefret, the founder...

The Stardust Grail

The Stardust Grail

Save one world. Doom her own. Maya Hoshimoto was once the best art thief in the galaxy. For ten years, she returned stolen artifacts to alien civilizations―until a disastrous job...

A Quantum Love Story

A Quantum Love Story

The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them. Grieving her best friend’s recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start...

The Mistress of Bhatia House, Book 4

The Mistress of Bhatia House, Book 4

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in...

The Perishing

The Perishing

A Black immortal in 1930’s Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is. Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in...

We Have Always Been Here

We Have Always Been Here

A sci-fi thriller that explores AI ethics and the effects of climate change. Aboard a ship manned by humans and androids, one doctor must discover the source of her crew’s...

Destroyer of Light

Destroyer of Light

The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and genetic engineering in Jennifer Marie Brissett’s Destroyer of Light. Having destroyed Earth,...

Far from the Light of Heaven

Far from the Light of Heaven

A tense and thrilling vision of humanity’s future in the chilling emptiness of space from rising giant in science fiction, Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tade Thompson. The colony ship...

The Widows of Malabar Hill, Book 1

The Widows of Malabar Hill, Book 1

1920s India: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s only female lawyer, is investigating a suspicious will on behalf of three Muslim widows living in full purdah when the case takes a turn toward...

Future Home of the Living God

Future Home of the Living God

A startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn child against oppressive forces that manifest in the wake of a cataclysmic event. The world as...

Robocalypse

Robocalypse

This terrifying tale of humanity’s desperate stand against a robot uprising is the most entertaining sci-fi thriller in years. Not far into our future, the dazzling technology that runs our...

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