Science Fiction

Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age. The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. Marooned far from home after a devastating defeat on the battlefields of Mercury, Darrow longs to return to his wife and sovereign, Virginia, to defend Mars from ...

“Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.”—STEPHEN KING. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia—where the truth isn’t what it seems. Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera’s lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to ...

A NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER! Most Anticipated from BookPage • Goodreads • The Nerd Daily • Paste Magazine • LitReactor • OverDrive • LGBTQ Reads • Tor.com • LibraryReads • more. New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts. “An enchanting tale of Pinocchio in the end times.” —P. Djèlí Clark. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly ...

A Today Show #ReadwithJenna Book Club Pick. In a near-future northern settlement, the fates of a young woman, a professor, and a mysterious collective of researchers collide in this mesmerizing and transportive debut that “delivers its big ideas with suspense, endlessly surprising twists, and abundant heart” (Jessamine Chan, New York Times bestselling author). In remote northern Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is break­ing ground on a building project called Camp Zero, intended to be the beginning of a new way of life. A clever ...

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR. “The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I’ve ever read.” —Jonathan Lethem. “If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future.” —Ezra Klein (Vox). The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that ...

Carmen Grey always knew she was different. None of the other children seemed able to read minds. None of the other children were able to manipulate their toys without touching them. On the morning of her sixth birthday, three men dressed in black arrive to remove her from the loving care of her parents. She is taken to an underground facility meant for others like her, for Clairvoyants. Stripped of her name and identity, over the years she is fashioned into something scary—something lethal. Each ...

It is 2050, and what is left of humanity has emerged from an apocalyptic event of biblical proportions. Welcome to the future. Immerse yourself in a world where Neo-Mandarin is the universal language, where robotic animals eat table scraps off of the floor, and everything is measured according to “ecological and sustainability impact,” or ESI. You’ll release a sigh of satisfaction as “draggers” are forced to live out their existence online, unable to live off the hard work of others and unwilling to put in ...

“We offer food, shelter, and protection to all survivors. Does anyone copy? …hello? Is anyone alive out there?” The end of the world has given humanity a harsh, merciless existence, where nature tries hard to push us to the very brink of extinction. Everything is against us, between us. Untold miles of lawless, apocalyptic roads wait for our feet, and the future, cold and dark, offers little comfort. Without change, there can be no peace—only survivors.

“Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I’ve had the pleasure of reading that isn’t just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out.” — Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of Brass From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation ...

LOOP is part sci-fi/horror yarn, and part zombie/pandemic/survival epic, a cyberpunk, dystopian techno-thriller set in middle America that grips the reader in its monstrous bloody hands and refuses to let go! ★★★★★ “A tour de force… Violence and carnage are terrifying and starkly realistic… I wouldn’t change a f*cking syllable.” Ben Clement — “Giants On My Shoulders” ★★★★★ “…a relentless, terrifying sci-fi thriller with visceral intensity that invades the psyche and never lets go.” Debbie Lynn Elias — “Behind The Lens” When a new social ...

A dying student. A visionary scientist. Civilization-crushing conflict. Michael Carr stands at the edge of death. A bright young student, he is living out his final years on the quiet shores of Lake Superior, knowing that a genetic disorder will destroy his lungs. Even as Michael struggles to accept his fate, a new hope emerges in the reports of breakthroughs in human-machine augmentation. Seeking a lifeline, Michael accepts a scholarship offer to study under the tutelage of the renowned and enigmatic Professor Arjun Khatri, who ...

“The pages brim with tenderness and an appreciation for what we had and who we were. I could not have loved it more.”—Ann Patchett. “The kind of book that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make you call the people you love. Exceptional.”—Emily Henry. “Delightful”—Boston Globe. “Poignant”—New York Times. What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, beloved New York Times bestseller Emma Straub offers her own twist on traditional time travel tropes, and a different ...

The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi’s first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization.” Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn’t tell ...