Science Fiction
A variety of recently published science fiction titles recommended by our librarians. Annotations by NoveList unless otherwise noted.
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Flux
Four days before Christmas, 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big-media employer, and 48-year-old Blue, a key witness in a criminal trial against an infamous now-defunct tech startup, struggles to reconnect with his family. So begins Jinwoo Chong’s dazzling, time-bending debut that blends elements of neo-noir and speculative fiction as the lives of Bo, Brandon, and Blue begin to intersect, uncovering a vast network of secrets and an experimental technology that threatens to upend life itself.
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Continuum
This unique collection of newly translated short stories offers a taste of classic and contemporary French science fiction to English-language readers. These stories cover a range of fascinating topics including simulated reality, speciesism, ecology, and transhumanism—all while exploring universal themes of belonging, death, and identity. These nine stories showcase some of the brilliant mid- to late twentieth and twenty-first century French contributions to science fiction.
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Weird Black Girls
A rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an activist community. An aloof young man finds himself living through his lover’s memories. And a day of LARPing takes a cosmic turn. In each of the seven stories in this collection, characters pursue their obsessions on paths to glory and destruction while around them their worlds twist and warp, oscillating between reality and impossibility.
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Floating Hotel
Tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery that spans the stars.
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Deep Dream
Ten writers imagine the different ways in which art forms might evolve, devolve, shift, and transform in the decades and centuries to come. They consider how the rapid progress of technology will interact with different mediums of art or give rise to new ones, and what the lives and inner worlds of different kinds of artists might look like in the future as they adapt to rapidly shifting eras amidst anthropogenic global threats like climate change and fascism.
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Exordia
A disaffected office worker has an unearthly close encounter and joins a team of civilians, soldiers and scientists to investigate a mysterious other-worldly broadcast in the new novel from the author of the Baru Cormorant novels.
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Counterweight
The future of humanity hangs in the balance as a group of rival forces with a far-flung range of grievances race to be the first to retrieve data that is powering a space elevator on the Korean island of Patusan.
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Calamity
Winter's Orbit meets Ilona Andrews in this sexy enemies-to-lovers romance.
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Annie Bot
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him, wears the outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. She’s trying to please him and trying hard. She’s learning, too. Doug says he loves that Annie’s AI makes her seem more like a real woman, so Annie explores human traits such as curiosity, secrecy, and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect, and as their relationship grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder: Does Doug desire what he says he wants? And in such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?
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World Running Down
A transgender salvager on the outskirts of a dystopian Utah gets the chance to earn the ultimate score and maybe even a dash of romance. But there's no such thing as a free lunch….
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