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• Chain-gang All-stars

  Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame

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  The star of a popular, but controversial for-profit program in the private prison industry that basically turns prisoners into gladiators contemplates freedom.

• Afterglow

  Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors

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  Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need.

• The Splinter in the Sky

  Ashing-Giwa, Kemi

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  The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor’s surrender means little to a lowly scribe like Enitan. All she wants is to quit her day job and expand…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Great Hemisphere

  a Novel

  Askaripour, Mateo

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  When authorities claim her brother, who was presumed dead, is alive -- and the main suspect in the murder of the Chief Executive of Northwestern Hemisphere, Candace, a young invisible woman, must find him before it's too late in a world where no one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Prophet

  a Novel

  Blaché, Sin

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  An adventure fusing noir, sci-fi and a slow burn queer romance is set in a universe just one perilous step from our own.

• Navigational Entanglements

  Bodard, Aliette de

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  Jockeying navigator clans guide spaceships through the Hollows: an area of space populated by the mysterious but deadly creatures known as Tanglers. When a Tangler escapes the Hollows for the first time in living memory, each clan must send a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ministry of Time

  Bradley, Kaliane

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  A time travel romance, a spy thriller, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all.

• The Scourge Between Stars

  Brown, Ness

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  A tense, claustrophobic sci-fi/horror blend set aboard a doomed generation ship harboring something terrible within its walls.

• The Archive Undying

  Candon, Emma Mieko

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  When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its city, and all its wondrous works. But in its final death throes, the god brought one thing back to life: its favorite child, Sunai. For the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rakesfall

  Chandrasekera, Vajra

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  Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Flux

  a Novel

  Chong, Jinwoo

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Continuum

  French Science Fiction Short Stories

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  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,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weird Black Girls

  Stories

  Cotman, Elwin, 1984-

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Floating Hotel

  Curtis, Grace

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  Tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery that spans the stars.

• Deep Dream

  Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Exordia

  Dickinson, Seth

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  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.

• Counterweight

  Djuna

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  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.

• Calamity

  Fay, Constance

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  Winter's Orbit meets Ilona Andrews in this sexy enemies-to-lovers romance.

• Annie Bot

  a Novel

  Greer, Sierra

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• World Running Down

  Hess, Al

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  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….