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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...

Babylon, South Dakota

Babylon, South Dakota

A tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful, mysterious, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives. When...

The Obake Code

The Obake Code

An all-new, stand-alone sci-fi caper from the author of Hammajang Luck: a bored hacker is forced by vicious gangsters to take down a crooked politician…only to find herself up against...

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 Last Contract of Isako

The Last Contract of Isako

A battle-worn corporate samurai undertakes one last mission on a merciless planet where death is always a mere breath away, in this standalone dystopian epic from the author of the...

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...

Saltcrop

Saltcrop

From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister―and Earth’s environmental salvation. In Earth’s...

All That We See or Seem

All That We See or Seem

Former “orphan hacker” Julia Z is thrust into a high-stakes adventure where she must use her AI-whispering skills to unravel a virtual reality mystery, rescue a kidnapped dream artist, and...

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...

Hole in the Sky

Hole in the Sky

A Native American first contact story and gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. On the Great Plains of Oklahoma, in the heart of the Cherokee...

Hammajang Luck

Hammajang Luck

Ocean’s 8 meets Blade Runner in this trail-blazing debut science fiction novel and swashbuckling love letter to Hawai’i about being forced to find a new home and striving to build...

Death of the Author

Death of the Author

In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises,...

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...

Chicano Frankenstein

Chicano Frankenstein

A modern retelling of the Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley classic that addresses issues of belonging and assimilation. An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a...

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...

Peri Peri Paprika

Peri Peri Paprika

Moss is a pilot aboard the Rusty Raccoon, a trash collection ship traveling through interstellar space. Moss is sleepwalking through existence, but when she stumbles across her supervisor Turnip attempting...

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...

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...

Your Utopia

Your Utopia

A fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears—and deepest desires. Bora Chung’s inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and...

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

From international bestseller Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport is an exuberant new sci-fi adventure. Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking,...

The Rivals, Book 2

The Rivals, Book 2

A witty and thought-provoking mystery that reimagines the spy story to explore the nature of relationships in a digital age. Claudia Lin—mystery novel superfan and, until recently, clichéd underemployed English...

Masquerade

Masquerade

Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths...

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