Science Fiction

“Lean, relentless, and incandescent.” —Colson Whitehead From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others—the basis for the Academy Award –nominated film Arrival: a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction. “THE UNIVERSE BEGAN AS AN ENORMOUS BREATH BEING HELD.” In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine. In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes ...

The first in a bloody sci-fi trilogy like you’ve never read before: The Hierophant’s Daughter is a wild ride from the twisted mind of M. F. Sullivan. “The Hierophant’s Daughter is a gripping read from start to finish. I highly recommend it.” -Tessa Dick, author of Philip K. Dick: Remembering Firebright & Conversations With Philip K. Dick By 4042 CE, the Hierophant and his Church have risen to political dominance with his cannibalistic army of genetically modified humans: martyrs. In an era when mankind’s intergenerational ...

People are going missing in the Woods; They are being taken, but by who, or what…? True tales of horrifying, unexplained disappearances in the woods… The Woods will never be the same again… Bestselling author Steph Young has appeared on National radio shows including ‘Coast to Coast Am.’ People in the Woods are disappearing…. hikers missing in national parks, people lost to the woods – never to return, people taken….never found again… Natural predators can lurk in the wilderness; bears, mountain lions, cougars, and occasionally ...

New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonementand The Children Act Machines Like Me takes place in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first synthetic humans and—with Miranda’s help—he designs Adam’s personality. The near-perfect human that emerges is beautiful, strong, and clever. It isn’t long before a love triangle soon forms, and these ...

The eighth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Tiamat’s Wrath finds the crew of the Rocinante fighting an underground war against a nearly invulnerable authoritarian empire, with James Holden a prisoner of the enemy. Now a Prime Original series.   Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the ...

Tade Thompson’s Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction’s most engaging new voices. Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless – people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers.   Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. He has seen inside the biodome, and doesn’t care to ...

Life begins. Then it ends. Then it begins again… For each life, fate is predetermined; nothing can change its path. From the moment she was born he has been in her life, watching her; he has known everything about her. He has studied her every expression, feeling, thought… Because she felt, like any other person: she felt joy, happiness, passion, anger, sorrow… And, he didn’t. Why does she laugh? Why does she cry? Why does she feel…? Despite his exhaustive knowledge about her, he couldn’t ...

The new islands popped into existence. Civilization ground to a halt. No disease, no zombies, no alien invaders, at least not what we imagined. It was a land rush for 8 billion people. This mind-bending novel follows Alex Gamble, a ridiculed physicist who knows the truth, Stephanie Hart, a stunning TV reporter determined to follow the wheels falling off our world, and two terrifying, brutal killers embrace the world’s end and claim authority to do what they want. Those left on Earth fight for survival ...