Science Fiction

A Best Book of April from Time, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Fortune, Business Insider, Marie Claire, PopSugar, PureWow, Tor.com, Huffington Post, BookRiot, Literary Hub, Buzzfeed, Amazon’s Editors’ Pick, Apple Books, IndieNext, LibraryReads The masterful first novel for adults from the mega-selling author of the Divergent franchise. “A stunning thriller/fantasy/sci-fi chimera like nothing I’ve read before.” –Blake Crouch “A hugely imagined, twisty, turning tale that leads through the labyrinths of magic and war to the center of the heart.” –Diana Gabaldon Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy ...

It was a cargo run, a jump between systems that they had done a dozen times. It was supposed to be routine. Instead, the crew of the Sarafina find themselves in a universe of ravaged worlds and danger. They have no idea where they are or what dangers they face in an old cargo hauler with no weapons or shields. Join the crew for this story of ordinary people forced into adventure as they try to discover why once populous worlds have been wiped clean ...

A new ice age… and a shocking discovery… will change humanity forever. * Longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Award for best published novel. * In the near future, a new ice age has begun. Humanity stands on the brink of extinction. Desperate for answers, scientists send probes into the solar system to take readings. Near Mars, a probe spots a mysterious object drifting toward the Sun. Is it the cause of the ice age? Or could it be humanity’s only hope of survival? With time ...

The last human in the universe must battle unfathomable alien intelligences—and confront the truth about humanity—in this ambitious, galaxy-spanning debut   “A good old-fashioned space opera in a thoroughly fresh package.”—Andy Weir, author of The Martian “Big ideas and believable science amid a roller-coaster ride of aliens, AI, superintelligence, and the future of humanity.”—Dennis E. Taylor, author of We Are Legion Most days, Sarya doesn’t feel like the most terrifying creature in the galaxy. Most days, she’s got other things on her mind. Like hiding her identity among the hundreds ...

A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever, in this captivating debut of connection across space and time. “The best of what science fiction can be: a thought-provoking, heartrending story about the choices that define our lives.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A solitary ship captain, drifting through time. Nia Imani is a woman out of place. Traveling through the stars condenses decades into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she ...

A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future—with clear parallels to today’s headlines—in which the future of humanity lies in the hands of one woman, a scientist who has stumbled upon a secret that the government will go to any lengths to keep hidden. A world half in darkness. A secret she must bring to light. It is 2059, and the world has crashed. Forty years ago, a solar catastrophe began to slow the planet’s rotation to a stop. Now, ...

A Reflection is an embedded agent who fits seamlessly into the indigenous population of the target planet. The United Systems scientists breed the subject to accelerated maturity with enhanced technological advantages for the mission. This agent went to Earth, assigned to find out why the other Earth reflections no longer reported back to Mission Control. What Mission Control planned with precision goes awry at the very onset and the Reflection must adapt, enlist allies and fight back to survive. The expected cloak and dagger coexistence with ...

“ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING”* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling novel The Peripheral. William Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term “cyberspace” and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel Neuromancer in the early 1980s. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is “spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer.” Now Gibson is back with Agency—a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current ...