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By Vernor Vinge. 2010
The prequel to A Fire Upon The Deep, this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the…
interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. The Queng Ho and the Emergents are orbiting the dormant planet Arachna, which is about to wake up to technology, but the Emergents' plans are sinister.By Sheri S. Tepper. 1988
The Gate to Women's Country tells of a society that exists three hundred years after our own has nearly destroyed…
itself. Now, male warriors are separated from women at an early age and live in garrisons plotting futilely for the battles which must never be fought again. Inside the women's towns, education, arts and science flourish. But for some like Stavia, there is more to see. Her sojourn with the man she is forbidden to love brings into sharp focus the contradictions that define their lives.And when tragedy strikes, Stavia is faced with a decision she never thought she would make - a decision that could forever change their world ...The Gate to Women's Country is a novel that rivals Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale in scope, impact, and the sheer power of its storytelling.By Neil Clarke, Ray Nayler, Alice Towey, José Pablo Iriarte, Robert Reed, Karl Schroeder, Anil Menon, Mary Anne Mohanraj, Vandana Singh, Meg Elison, Erin Barbeau, Hannu Rajaniemi, S. Qiouyi Liu, Shauna O'Meara, Kim Bo-Young, R.S.A. Garcia, Gregory Norman Bossert, An Owomoyela, Indrapramit Das, Hao Jingfang, Shiv Ramdas, Cooper Shrivastava, Regina Kanyu Wang, Ken Liu, Octavia Cade, Tade Thompson, Grace Chan, Rich Larson, Aliette De Bodard, Suzanne Palmer. 2023
A remote village is determined to keep their robot teacher from being fired. A poetry-loving AI controls the wastewater treatment…
facility, but a series of malfunctions are beginning to cause concern. The biggest pop idol of the twenty-second century is trapped on Enceladus, and deeply alone. Latchko can talk to the banned AIs and now that his secret is out things are about to get complicated. A former child soldier is raised by a plant-like species but struggles to understand them. Ice fishing on Europa just keeps turning up rocks and things just got worse … something is changing the world, making it better, but for whom?Short fiction is the heart of science fiction, introducing new voices, experimenting with ideas and technique, and paving the way for the future of the field. Thousands of stories are published every year in the many genre magazines, anthologies, collections, podcasts, and websites, as well as other less common venues. Each year, Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning editor Neil Clarke sifts through the myriad of offerings to select works that represent the best and the brightest, report on the state of the field, and recommend additional stories for further reading. In this volume, covering 2021, you'll find works by Aliette de Bodard, Meg Elison, Rich Larson, Ken Liu, Ray Nayler, Suzanne Palmer, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, Karl Schroeder, Vandana Singh, Tade Thompson, and many more.By Peter David. 2003
Years before they served together on board the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM, Commander William Riker and ship's counselor Deanna Troi had a…
tempestuous love affair on her home planet of Betazed. Now, their passions have cooled and they serve together as friends. Yet the memories of that time linger and Riker and Troi remain Imzadi - a powerful Betazoid term that describes the enduring bond they still share. During delicate negotiations with an aggressive race called the Sindareen Deanna Troi mysteriously falls ill and dies. But her death is only the beginning of the adventure for Commander Riker, an adventure that will take him across time, pit him against one of his closest friends, and force him to choose between Starfleet's strictest rule and the one he calls Imzadi.A New York Times Notable Book: The People vs. God in &“a funny, ferocious fantasy&” from the two-time Nebula Award–winning…
author (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Hallelujah! God is not dead. He&’s just been a deep-freeze coma in the Arctic. Strapped for cash, the Vatican has sold the body (a bargain at $1.3 billion!) to Baptists in Florida. Enterprising souls that they are, they&’ve turned the Corpus Dei into a popular, two-mile long theme-park attraction at Orlando&’s Celestial City USA—hooked up to the largest life-support system on earth. Then things get weird. Martin Candle, a justice of the peace who&’s suffered a series of devastating setbacks, decides to put Him on trial in The Hague for crimes against humanity. Now, to accumulate evidence for the prosecution, Candle enters God&’s brain on a steamer to find out what in the world the Almighty could possibly have been thinking all these years. What ensues in this sequel to James Morrow&’s World Fantasy Award–winning Towing Jehovah is a &“square off for the greatest moral debate of all time . . . [and it&’s] not to be missed&” (Booklist). &“Surreal . . . dark and powerful.&” —Publishers Weekly &“A wildly imaginative novel . . . as barbed with high and low comedy as an Aristophanes play—and just as fundamentally serious.&” —The Bloomsbury Review &“Hilarious . . . [Morrow] demonstrates a sharp mind, [and] a sharper tongue . . . Salman Rushdie, eat your heart out.&” —The San Diego Union-TribuneBy John Jackson Miller. 2021
The thrilling adventure based on the acclaimed Star Trek: Picard TV series! Starfleet was everything for Cristóbal Rios…until one horrible,…
inexplicable day when it all went wrong. Aimless and adrift, he grasps at a chance for a future as an independent freighter captain in an area betrayed by the Federation, the border region with the former Romulan Empire. His greatest desire: to be left alone. But solitude isn&’t in the cards for the captain of La Sirena, who falls into debt to a roving gang of hoodlums from a planet whose society is based on Prohibition-era Earth. Teamed against his will with Ledger, his conniving overseer, Rios begins an odyssey that brings him into conflict with outlaws and fortune seekers, with power brokers and relic hunters across the stars. Exotic loves and locales await—as well as dangers galore—and Rios learns the hard way that good crewmembers are hard to find, even when you can create your own. And while his meeting with Jean-Luc Picard is years away, Rios finds himself drawing on the Starfleet legend&’s experiences when he discovers a mystery that began on one of the galaxy&’s most important days…. ™, ®, & © 2021 CBS Studios, Inc. STAR TREK and related marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.By Bethany Clift. 2021
Su nueva vida llegó con el fin del mundo... Diciembre de 2023. La raza humana ha sido prácticamente aniquilada por…
el virus 6DM (Seis días máximo, el tiempo máximo que tienes antes de que tus órganos se desintegren y te derritas de adentro hacia afuera). El fin del mundo, por así decirlo. Nuestra protagonista, una mujer anónima de 36 años, siempre se ha considerado feminista, si eso incluye no poder cambiar un enchufe, estar lisiada por la incapacidad de tomar sus propias decisiones y ser crónicamente dependiente de sus padres y su esposo, James. Sus amigos y familiares siempre han sido un colchón para su ansiedad y, de alguna manera, se ha encontrado a sí misma llevando la vida que quieren para ella, en lugar de la que quiere para ella. Sin ellos, en un mundo de ciudades en llamas, cadáveres en descomposición y gaviotas devoradoras de hombres, carece de métodos básicos de supervivencia.¿Qué haces cuando eres esencialmente el nuevo gobernante del planeta? ¿Irrumpir en los hoteles más elegantes de Londres? ¿Robar un Porsche? ¿Desarrollar accidentalmente una adicción a las drogas farmacéuticas? Absolutamente. Y buscar supervivientes... definitivamente buscar supervivientes. A la deriva en un extraño mundo nuevo, la narradora y su nuevo compañero, un perro golden retriever llamado Lucky, emprenden un viaje por carretera por todo el país para ver si ella es realmente la última persona que queda en el planeta y aprender a vivir consigo misma por el camino. Reseñas:«Adoro este libro. Se trata de ser quién eres sin que nadie te vea, de lo que significa ser humano y de cómo vivir.»Gillian McAllister «Brillante, espeluznante, ingeniosa, risueña y estremecedora.»Harriet Walker «Un libro fresco, divertido y sorprendentemente edificante sobre el fin del mundo.»Elizabeth Kay«Terminé el libro anoche y no he dejado de pensar en ello. Posiblemente mi lectura favorita de este año: aguda, divertida, emocional, una versión fresca y diferente de un mundo postapocalíptico.»Lisa Hall «Divertidísima... como un diario distópico de Bridget Jones con ecos de Shaun of the Dead.»Kate Sawyer «Hacía tiempo que un libro no me atrapaba tanto. Una obra maestra de la ficción moderna. Permanecerá conmigo durante mucho tiempo.»Sophie Cousens «Esta montaña rusa postapocalíptica está llena de un humor doloroso y de la conmovedora historia de una mujer que se enfrenta al fin del mundo.»Magic FM Book Club «Una noveladistópica divertida, y que es a la vez tanto un testimonio del espíritu humano como extrañamente reconfortante.»Red Magazine «Totalmente recomendable. Piensa en ella como una versión literaria de 28 días después: aterradora, construida de manera convincente, palpitante a veces y oscuramente divertida.»Irish Independent Review«Increíble. Inquietante, oscura y TAN inteligente. Uno de los libros más desconcertantes que he leído en mi vida.»Cressida McLaughlin «Si quieres algo súper original y loco y por momentos, a la vez conmovedor y divertido, esta es tu novela.»Cesca Major «Un libro fenomenal. Original, brutal, divertido y tremendamente adictivo. No voy a poder dejar de pensar en él en mucho tiempo.» Emma Cooper «Una versión audaz del género apocalíptico.»Bea Carvalho, Belfast Telegraph «Divertidísima. Se podría titular Bridget Jones en medio del Apocalipsis.»Financial Times «Un verdadero revólver pandémico, con un final absolutamente escalofriante.»The Irish TimesBy Nancy Kress. 2008
This book is a collection of 13 science fiction stories by one of the best writers in the field. The…
stories range from near future impacts of artificial intelligence and nanotechnology to far future tales of human attempts to seed the galaxy with our kind of life. Sometimes, the people in the stories are just people, but under extraordinary circumstances. In other cases, the people are "intelligences vast and cool," but thrust into interacting with mere mortals. But we would surely like to learn more about any of these characters.By Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch. 2002
In their first few weeks in space, Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Enterprise have already discovered several…
new species and explored strange new worlds. But each planet brings new discoveries...and new dangers. BY THE BOOK The Fazi, whose ultraregulated culture ranges from strict conversation protocols to unvarying building designs, inhabit half of a planet discovered by the Enterprise. But after a disasterous first contact with the ruler of the Fazi, Archer must depend on Vulcan science officer T'Pol and communication specialist Hoshi Sato to help him mend relations with the people of this planet, and unravel the mystery of the other creatures living on the world.By Una McCormack. 2005
At the turning point of the Dominion War, Captain Benjamin Sisko of Starbase Deep Space 9 , facing certain defeat…
by the relentless forces of the Jem'Hadar and the Cardassians, went through with a secret plan to secure the aid of the Federation's longtime adversaries, the Romulans. What began as a desperate attempt to save lives became a descent into an abyss of deception, moral compromises, and outright criminal acts, as Sisko sacrificed every ideal he held dear in order to preserve the civilization that espoused those selfsame principles. Now the aftermath of that choice is revealed for the first time as Sisko is summoned to Earth to take part in the first Allied talks to come out of the Federation's new partnership with the Romulans. But Sisko's conscience weighs heavily on him, compelling him to seek some kind of penance for what he has done...while elements within Starfleet itself set in motion a scheme to use Elim Garak as a pawn against a human political dissident who may hold the key to the outcome of the war. HOLLOW MEN A TALE OF THE DOMINION WAR&“You are now my precious family.&”On a mission to see the fugitive noblewoman Charlotte&’s first-ever solo journey into town become a…
resounding success, fearsome sorcerer Allen sets out to clean the streets of any trash that might get in her way. His efforts earn him thanks from the townspeople and a gifted trip for two to a luxury hot springs resort that promises rest and relaxation. But there is no such thing as a free lunch, much less a complimentary vacation without a catch, and the fine print on this one brings Allen and Charlotte face to face with heart-stopping temptations and ferocious dangers that put their budding relationship to the ultimate test.By One. 2012
From the creator of One-Punch Man!The battle for the city is over, with Claw vanquished, and nothing to mark the…
struggle but the gigantic broccoli sprouting from the rubble. That&’s not a misprint, but it&’s also the beginning of still more trouble as this &“divine tree&” begins to attract spiritual devotees to Seasoning City in search of the psychic power at its root! Regardless of his incredible heroism and esper skills, Mob still needs to find a way forward in search of a normal life…but will the cult stalking him permit it…?By Sumito Oowara. 2017
Midori loves to design worlds. Tsubame loves to animate. Sayaka loves to make money! And at Shibahama High, they call…
them Eizouken--a three-girl club determined to produce their own spectacular science fiction anime!But with no budget from their school and a leaky warehouse for a studio, Eizouken is going to have to work hard and use their imagination...the one thing they've got plenty of! Now an anime series from Masaaki Yuasa, director of the Netflix fan favorite Devilman Crybaby, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! was nominated for the Manga Taisho Award as one of the 10 best new manga of 2018!By Wataru Nadatani. 2019
Riko, a twenty-nine-year-old office worker with an obsession for video games, finds her quiet life upended when she takes in…
a stray cat in this adorable manga series!Her coworkers can&’t quite figure her out—she never talks about her personal life, she never works overtime, and she never joins them for happy hour. Is she antisocial? Nope, she&’s rushing home to play video games! One day, a stray cat is found in the office parking lot, and before Riko knows it, the cat has moved in with her! Having no experience with pets, Riko uses lessons drawn from video games to guide her in cat care, while her cute companion tries to understand her behavior through a cat's worldview. Available for the first time in English! By Wataru Nadatani, this is the first volume in this cute, fun, and heart-warming story of a gamer learning to live with a cat!By Ellen Oh. 2024
When a Korean American teenage artist gets sucked into the world of her own web comic, she must find a…
way out with the help of a cute boy all while facing off against a villainous corporation. Inspired by the A-ha's "Take on Me" music video, this entertaining YA novel is a grounded speculative fiction adventure from a founding member of We Need Diverse Books."Sincere, smart, and meta…this stirring high-concept novel… stands out from the rest."-Soman Chainani, author of THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL series"A lighthearted story with touches of romance and fantasy, told with K-drama flair." —Kirkus ReviewsMina has become the hero of her own story. Literally.When Mina Lee woke up on Saturday morning for SAT prep, she did NOT expect to: 1. Nearly be fried by a superhero who turned out to be a supervillain. 2. Come face to face with Jin, the handsome boy of her dreams. 3. Discover a conspiracy involving the evil corporation Merco that she created.And it&’s all happening in her fictional world. Mina is trapped in the story she created. Now it&’s up to her to save everyone. Even if it means losing Jin forever.From the award-winning author of Finding Junie Kim and co-founder of We Need Diverse Books, Ellen Oh. In the speculative fiction adventure The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee, a teenage artist grapples with her first love, grief, and learning how to take charge of her own life.By Jack Campbell. 2023
Jack Campbell’s New York Times bestselling The Lost Fleet sci-fi adventure series has transported legions of fans out of this…
world and into the heat of battle. Now, readers will discover how it all began—not only for John “Black Jack” Geary and his descendant Commander Michael Geary, but for those who fought and sacrificed so much alongside them.Spanning from before the Alliance/Syndicate war to the devastating initial conflagration that would lead to decades of unremitting conflict and beyond into full-blown war, from the Geary’s own epic heroics to where their surviving compatriots found their own fates, this volume reveals the triumphs, tragedies, and life-altering events that made these warriors living legends in their universe.Packed with high-stakes military action and drama as well as humor and humanity, this volume explores the foundations of The Lost Fleet series as well as past exploits of its most popular characters—and also includes the novelization of the Lost Fleet graphic novel Corsair, which was praised as “a Tom Clancy thriller in space” (Publishers Weekly).Praise for The Lost Fleet novels:“Some of the best military science fiction on the shelves today.”—SF Site“If there’s ever a space war, the Lost Fleet series could well be the military’s manual.”—Audible“The whole series is worth a read…Fast paced adventure.”—SFRevuBy Edward Ashton. 2015
In this humorous science fiction thriller, a genetic engineer and a group of teens uncover a dangerous conspiracy.Drew Bergen is…
an Engineer. He builds living things, one gene at a time. He’s also kind of a doofus. Six years after the Stupid War—a bloody, inconclusive clash between the Engineered and the UnAltered—that’s a dangerous combination. Hannah is Drew’s greatest project, modified in utero to be just a bit more than human. She’s also his daughter.Drew’s working on a new project now. He thinks his team is developing a spiffy new strain of corn, but Hannah’s classmate and her mysterious companion disagree. They think he’s cooking up the end of the world. When one of Drew’s team members disappears, he begins to suspect that they might be right. Soon they’re all in far over their heads, with corporate goons and government operatives hunting them, and millions of lives in the balance.Energetic and bitingly satirical, The End of Ordinary is a riveting near-future thriller that asks an important question: if we can’t get along when our differences are barely skin deep, what happens when they run all the way down to the bone?By Jack Finney. 1957
About Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time…
classic Time and Again. The protagonists of these twelve stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives. The time to which they escape—through time travel—doesn't always fulfill their expectations in the way they had hoped, but sometimes, they can still find their dreams.By Diane Carey. 1994
The Dominion: The mysterious rulers of the worlds on the other side of the wormhole. The Dominion: a ruthless planet-conquering…
race unknown even to those they rule. The Dominion: the most dangerous foe the Federation may ever face. At the edge of the wormhole, the space station Deep Space Nine and the planet Bajor sit on what will be the front line in any Dominion attack. To try and prevent the conflict, Commander Benjamin Sisko ant his crew take a never-tested Federation warship through the wormhole to track down and confront the Dominion. If Commander Sisko fails, not only the Federation, but the Klingons, Romluans, Cardassians, and all the worlds of the Alpha Quadrant will face an interstellar war they cannot win.By Blake Crouch. 2017
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • COMING SOON TO APPLE TV+ • A &“mind-blowing&” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who…
awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy &“Are you happy with your life?&”Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits.Before a man he&’s never met smiles down at him and says, &“Welcome back, my friend.&”In this world he&’s woken up to, Jason&’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible.Is it this life or the other that&’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make it back to the family he loves?From the bestselling author Blake Crouch, Dark Matter is a mind-bending thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we&’ll go to claim the lives we dream of.