Science Fiction

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From an awardwinning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Awardnominated movie Arrival), the longawaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already celebrated short storiesThis muchanticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory idea...

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in th...

A stunning tour de force filled with transcendent awe and wonder, Hyperion is a masterwork of science fiction that resonates with excitement and invention, the first volume in a remarkable epic by the multipleawardwinning author of The Hollow Man.On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. T...

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind?s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them?for a price. Until something goes wrong. . . . In Jurassic Park, Michael Crich...

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matte...

Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to coexi...

The Emperor needs necromancers.The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, ...

Would you give up everything to change the worldHumanity clings to life on Januarya colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other.Two cities, built long ago in the meager temperate zone, serve as the last bastions of civilizationbut life inside them is just as dangerous as t...

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multisystem Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accidentor that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability i...

In a corporatedominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Companysupplied security androids, for their own safety.But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn_x0092_t a primary concern.On a distant planet, a team of scientists are co...

It_x0092_s been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she abandoned her family in the dawn of a new day.And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders.But Okwu will be the first of ...

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignmentfind them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!...

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The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial Intelligence,s have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanoTechnology, runs rampant, replicating and reProgramming, at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.Struggling to sur...

It is the story of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store: a dark age of ignorance, barbarism and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering together a band of courageous men and...

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The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the awardwinning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's grea...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, First, Contact, Science Fiction, Science lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.It is a time of renewal, five years after the destruction of the Death Star and the defeat of Darth Vader and the Empire.But with the war seemingly won, strains are beginning to show in the Rebel Alliance. New challenges to galactic peace have arisen. And Luke Skywalker hears a voice from his past. A voice ...

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On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren a colossal starship with an Artificial Intelligence, linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one ...

Two months since the stars fell.Two months since sixtyfive thousand alien objects clenched around Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown.Two months of silence while a world holds its breath.Now some halfderelict space p...

For Kivrin, preparing an onsite study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvo...

Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep_x0096_and its forces find themselves fighting f...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Science Fiction, Science lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old waysfarming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman must open herself to ancient truths, eterna...

A legend among scifi readers, C. J. Cherryh's UnionAlliance novels, while separate and complete in themselves, are part of a much larger tapestry_x0097_a future history spanning 5,000 years of human civilization. A blockbuster Space Opera, of the rebellion between Earth and its farflung colonies, it is a classic science fiction masterwork....

_x0093_Outstanding_x0085_Amid a Space Opera, resurgence, Bear_x0092_s novel sets the bar high._x0094_ _x0097_Publishers Weekly (starred review) A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, bigideas Space Opera, from Hugo Awardwinning author Elizabeth Bear.Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage o...

A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the i...

A feminist Guardians of the Galaxy_x0097_a smart, swashbuckling, wildly imaginative adventure of a ragtag team of brilliant misfits, dangerous renegades, and enhanced outlaws in a wartorn future.A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decisionmaking, and reckless action. On the ev...

Alternative Cover Edition can be found here. After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds.The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap unimagina...

Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the worst thing she'd ever been through. That was before her planet was invaded. Now, with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra are forced to fight their way onto one of the evacuating craft, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit. But the warship could be the least of their problems. A deadly plague h...

For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as Breq. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist_x0097_someone who might be a refugee from a ship that's been hiding beyond the empire's reach for three thousand years. In the meantime a messenger from the alien and mysterious Presger empire arri...

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Lilith lyapo awoke from a centurieslong sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured cancer, increased strength, and were now ready to help Lilith lead her people back to Earth, but for a...

HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLDTo the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise_x0097_and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she mee...

Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Rob Broadhead has to face what happened to ...

Coming to Netflix in 2018, this mustread story is a confident, actionandviolence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multiawardwinning author. It's the twentyfifth century, and advances in Technology, have redefined life itself. Human consciousness can now be stored in the brain and downloaded into a new body (or 'sleeve')...

Oddmannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for sto...

Ten thousand citystate habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a nearperfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives.Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred mill...

John Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone followup to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling nearfuture SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports.Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime wh...