Category
Science Fiction
The Alteration 2013
In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass...
Barrayar 2016
Vorkosigan Saga, Book 2
Sick of combat and betrayal, Cordelia Vorkosigan is ready to settle down to a quiet life. But when the Emperor dies, her husband Aral becomes guardian of the infant heir to the imperial throne of Barrayar and the target of high-tech assassins in a dynastic civil war.
But neither Aral nor Cordelia...
Beyond This Horizon 2002
In a future where humanity has seemingly perfected itself through genetic engineering, society is orderly, prosperous—and quietly constrained. Individuals are bred for intelligence, health, and stability, creating a world in which conflict is rare and efficiency reigns. Yet beneath this carefully...
The Big Time 2001
Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War. It's been going on for a billion years and...
The Black Orb 2025
The object was a black orb, roughly two meters in diameter. Despite its large size, it made no sound as it moved. Although it wasn’t chasing Jeong-su fast enough to catch him, it was unrelenting and persistent in its pursuit…
One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside...
Blackout 2010
Oxford Time Travel, Book 3
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees...
The Blind Assassin 2001
The bestselling author of *The Handmaid's Tale* and *The Testaments* weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.
Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris...
The Blood Gift 2024
The Blood Gift, Book 2
After discovering the depth of betrayal, treachery, and violence perpetrated against her by Mareen’s Tribunal Council and exposing her illegal blood-gift to save her Praetorian squad, Ikenna becomes a fugitive with a colossal bounty on her head. Yet, somehow, that’s the least of her worries. Her...
Blue Mars 1997
The Mars Trilogy, Book 3
The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the...
Burning Chrome 2003
Known for his seminal science fiction novel Neuromancer, and for the acclaimed books Pattern Recognition, The Peripheral, and Agency, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 short stories, including some written with...
Lady Astronaut, Book 1
A meteor decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth’s efforts to colonize space, as well as an unprecedented opportunity for a much...
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine...
Carpe Jugulum 2024
Witches, Book 6
In a fit of enlightened democracy and ebullient goodwill brought on by the birth of his new daughter, King Verence invites Uberwald’s undead, the sophisticated Magpyrs, into Lancre. Everyone knows you don’t allow vampires into your castle—unless you want permanent guests. Now that they’re here,...
A Case of Conscience 1972
A Case of Conscience follows Father Ramon Ruiz-Sanchez, a Jesuit priest and biologist sent as part of a scientific expedition to the distant planet Lithia. There, the team discovers a civilization of reptilian aliens who live in a perfectly ordered, rational society—one that appears entirely free of...
Ancillary Justice 2013
Imperial Radch, Book 1
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...
Coincidence 2009
Isn't it odd how you can just be thinking about someone and they happen to call you on the phone that very moment? Or when you come across a picture of a friend you haven't seen in years and she suddenly bumps into you on the street the next day?
That type of thing happened to George all the time,...
Count Zero 1987
Sprawl, Book 2
Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfected—out intact.
But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren’t remotely human....
Cyteen 1995
On the planet Cyteen, humanity has mastered the science of cloning and psychological conditioning, creating a society built on the replication—and control—of human minds. At the center of this world stands Ariane Emory, a brilliant and controversial scientist whose work shapes not only the future of...
And Another Thing... 2010
Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has not been entirely without incident.
Arthur has traveled the length, breadth, and depth of known, and unknown, space. He has stumbled forward and backward through time. He has been blown...
Neog, Book 4
When you’re trapped in space, there’s no way out. The mission of the Near-Earth Orbital Guard is to ensure the peace and security of the solar system. Commander Maxine Carmichael and Lieutenant Commander Saqib Vahid are at the Mars Orbital Station (MOS) to help facilitate the official handover from...
The Dark Forest 2015
Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 2
Earth is no longer alone—and it has learned the terrifying truth too late. As news spreads that an alien civilization is on its way to invade, humanity unites in preparation for a war that will not arrive for centuries. Yet the enemy has already found a way to cripple Earth’s defenses, placing...
Darkside 2024
Planetside, Book 4
Colonel Butler has paid his dues and just wants to enjoy his retirement on a remote planet. But the galaxy has had other plans. He has been roped into searching for a politician’s missing son and an industry magnate’s missing daughter. He has been kidnapped, violated numerous laws, and caused the...
Death's End 2016
Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 3
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...
Zones of Thought, Book 2
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...
The Demolished Man 2017
In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in seventy years: murder. That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a ten-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises.
Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and...
Teixcalaan, Book 2
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options.
In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit...
The Diamond Age 2000
Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young...
Dirk Gently, Book 1
What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over two hundred years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common?
Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to...
Charlie Monk is the ultimate superhero. He has no conscience. He has no fear. But he also has no memory. Dr Susan Flemyng has found a way to give memory back. In a world where even virtual reality is controlled, that is the most dangerous knowledge of all. Can she trust those she works for, or...
The Dispossessed 1994
The Hainish Cycle, Book 5
Anarres, Shevek’s homeland, is a bleak moon settled by an anarchic utopian civilization, where there is no government, and everyone, at least nominally, is a revolutionary. It has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—defined by warring nations, great poverty, and...
Doomsday Book 1993
Oxford Time Travel, Book 1
For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study 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...
Double Star 2021
Out-of-work actor Lorenzo Smythe is desperate for his next role when he is recruited for a job unlike any other: to impersonate one of the most powerful political figures in the solar system. What begins as a temporary assignment quickly spirals into something far more dangerous, as Smythe is drawn...
Downbelow Station 2001
Pell Station stands as a fragile refuge at the edge of human space, a vital hub of trade and survival in a region torn apart by war. As the conflict between Earth and the breakaway Union intensifies, waves of displaced ships and desperate refugees flood the station, straining its resources and...
Dreamsnake 2021
On an Earth scarred by nuclear war, Snake harnesses the power of venom to cure illnesses and vaccinate against disease. The healer can even ease patients into death with the power of her dreamsnake. But she is not respected and trusted by all, and when she tries to help a sick nomad child, the...
Dune 1990
Dune, Book 1
Set in a distant future among a vast interstellar empire, Dune follows Paul Atreides, the young heir to House Atreides, whose family is entrusted with the stewardship of Arrakis—the desert planet that is the only source of the universe’s most valuable substance: spice. This rare resource grants...
Edge 2012
Edge begins with a massive and catastrophic shifting of the San Andreas fault. The fears of California someday tumbling into the sea—that have become the stuff of parody—become real. But even the terror resulting from this catastrophe pales in comparison to the understanding behind its happening, a...
Ender's Game 1991
The Ender Saga, Book 1
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than...
The Fallen Fruit 2025
On a rainy day in May 1964, history professor Cecily Bridge-Davis begins to search for the sixty-five acres of land she inherited from her father’s family. The quest leads her to uncover a dark secret: in every generation, one offspring from each Bridge family unit vanishes—and is mysteriously...
Farmer in the Sky 2012
When Bill Lermer and his family leave an overcrowded Earth for a new life on Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s moons, they are chasing the promise of opportunity on a distant frontier. But the reality of colonization is far harsher than they imagined. Ganymede is a frozen, hostile world, only recently made...
A Fire Upon The Deep 1993
Zones of Thought, Book 1
Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function.
Nobody knows what strange...
Forever Peace 1998
2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages, fought by “soldierboys”—the remote control war machines run by soldiers hundreds of miles away. Julian Class is one of these soldiers, and for him, war is indeed hell. The psychological strain of being jacked-in to his soldierboy—and the genocidal results—are becoming...
The Forever War 2009
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away.
A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and...
Foundation, Book 2
Led by its founding father, the psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and utilizing science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Now cleverness and courage may not be enough. For the Empire—the mightiest force in the Galaxy—is even more dangerous...
Foundation's Edge 1991
Foundation, Book 4
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations has come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation have proved victorious, and now they return to Hari Seldon’s long established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is...
Renowned structural engineer Dr. Vannevar Morgan seeks to link Earth to the stars—through the construction of a space elevator connecting to an orbiting satellite 22,300 miles from the planet's surface. The elevator would lift interstellar spaceships into orbit without the need of rockets to blast...
Original and classic science fiction about Japan from some of the greatest writers in the world.
A web browser that threatens to conquer the world. The longest, loneliest railroad on Earth. A North Korean nuke hitting Tokyo, a hollow asteroid full of automated rice paddies, and a specialist in...
Gateway 2004
The Heechee Saga, Book 1
Seeded among the stars are troves of valuable artifacts left behind by the enigmatic, long-vanished alien race called the Heechee. For the right price, anyone can climb aboard one of the abandoned Heechee spaceships, cast off on an autopilot voyage to parts unknown, and take a chance on finding...
Neog, Book 3
Ensign Nell “Sapphi” Zika has been working hard to get past her trauma, but the unnerving pleas for help she’s hearing in the Verge and the song she can’t get out of her head are making that increasingly difficult.
As Zuma’s Ghost gears up for a final run at the Boarding Games, their expert hacker...
One of Tsutsui’s best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious figure that she...
The Gods Themselves 1990
In the twenty-second century, Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the...
The Martian 2014
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to...
Red Mars 1993
The Mars Trilogy, Book 1
For centuries, the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. Now a group of one hundred colonists begins a mission whose ultimate goal is to transform Mars into a more Earthlike planet. They will place giant satellite mirrors in Martian orbit to reflect light onto its...
Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 1
Amid the turmoil of China’s Cultural Revolution, a young physicist named Ye Wenjie makes a decision that will echo across decades—and beyond the boundaries of Earth itself. Years later, a series of strange and unsettling events begins to trouble the scientific community: experiments yield impossible...
The Dark Forest 2015
Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 2
Earth is no longer alone—and it has learned the terrifying truth too late. As news spreads that an alien civilization is on its way to invade, humanity unites in preparation for a war that will not arrive for centuries. Yet the enemy has already found a way to cripple Earth’s defenses, placing...
Death's End 2016
Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 3
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...
What We Can Know June 16, 2026
2014: At a dinner for close friends and colleagues, renowned poet Francis Blundy honors his wife’s birthday by reading aloud a new poem dedicated to her, "A Corona for Vivien." Much wine is drunk as the guests listen, and a delicious meal is consumed. Little does anyone gathered around the candlelit...
The Midnight Train May 26, 2026
The Midnight World, Book 2
No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.
The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.
To see what kind of person you really were.
For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.
Before he gave it all away.
He...
The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances April 7, 2026
In a self-running, smart house, a young and sentient Roomba listens as her owner, Harold, reads aloud to his dying wife, Edie. Mesmerized by To Kill a Mockingbird and craving the human connection she witnesses in Harold’s stories, the little vacuum renames herself Scout and embarks on a journey of...
The Inheritors March 3, 2026
When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey, grubs, and the hot richness of a deer’s brain. They awaken the fire to heat their naked bodies, lay down their thorn bushes, and share pictures in their minds. But strange things are happening: inexplicable scents and sounds....
The Tower and the Ruin December 2, 2025
No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth—a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine that any single person could have simply created it, seemingly out of thin air.
In *The Tower and the...
HUXLEY December 2, 2025
HUXLEY's original run of six digital-first comics took the internet by storm, forever changing the landscape of graphic novels. But that was just the beginning. Ben Mauro's epic, decade-long franchise quickly grew with prequels that dive deeper into the universe's deep lore and rich history.
The...
On the Calculation of Volume November 18, 2025
On the Calculation of Volume, Book 3
Tara’s November 18th transforms when she discovers that she is no longer alone in her endless autumnal day. For she has met someone who remembers, and who knows as well as she does that “it is autumn, but that we’re not heading into winter. That spring and summer will not follow. That the reds and...
The Fallen Fruit September 16, 2025
On a rainy day in May 1964, history professor Cecily Bridge-Davis begins to search for the sixty-five acres of land she inherited from her father’s family. The quest leads her to uncover a dark secret: in every generation, one offspring from each Bridge family unit vanishes—and is mysteriously...
The October Country June 17, 2025
The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village, where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city, where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway, where a tiny man’s most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night.
The October Country’s...
The Black Orb February 4, 2025
The object was a black orb, roughly two meters in diameter. Despite its large size, it made no sound as it moved. Although it wasn’t chasing Jeong-su fast enough to catch him, it was unrelenting and persistent in its pursuit…
One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside...
And the Mighty Will Fall November 19, 2024
Neog, Book 4
When you’re trapped in space, there’s no way out. The mission of the Near-Earth Orbital Guard is to ensure the peace and security of the solar system. Commander Maxine Carmichael and Lieutenant Commander Saqib Vahid are at the Mars Orbital Station (MOS) to help facilitate the official handover from...
Carpe Jugulum October 8, 2024
Witches, Book 6
In a fit of enlightened democracy and ebullient goodwill brought on by the birth of his new daughter, King Verence invites Uberwald’s undead, the sophisticated Magpyrs, into Lancre. Everyone knows you don’t allow vampires into your castle—unless you want permanent guests. Now that they’re here,...
Darkside September 24, 2024
Planetside, Book 4
Colonel Butler has paid his dues and just wants to enjoy his retirement on a remote planet. But the galaxy has had other plans. He has been roped into searching for a politician’s missing son and an industry magnate’s missing daughter. He has been kidnapped, violated numerous laws, and caused the...
Guards! Guards! July 30, 2024
City Watch, Book 1
Insurrection is in the air in the city of Ankh-Morpork. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to face off. Again. It’s old news to Captain Sam Vimes of the city’s ramshackle Night Watch. But this time, something is different—the Have-Nots have found the key to a dormant, lethal weapon that even they...
The Ghosts of Trappist June 18, 2024
Neog, Book 3
Ensign Nell “Sapphi” Zika has been working hard to get past her trauma, but the unnerving pleas for help she’s hearing in the Verge and the song she can’t get out of her head are making that increasingly difficult.
As Zuma’s Ghost gears up for a final run at the Boarding Games, their expert hacker...
The Stars Too Fondly June 11, 2024
They just wanted to know why, twenty years ago, the entire Providence crew vanished without a trace. But then the stupid dark matter engine started all on its own, and now these four twenty-somethings are en route to Proxima Centauri, unable to turn around, and being harangued by a snarky hologram...
The Blood Gift June 4, 2024
The Blood Gift, Book 2
After discovering the depth of betrayal, treachery, and violence perpetrated against her by Mareen’s Tribunal Council and exposing her illegal blood-gift to save her Praetorian squad, Ikenna becomes a fugitive with a colossal bounty on her head. Yet, somehow, that’s the least of her worries. Her...
Service Model June 4, 2024
To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner.
The robot discovers they can also do something else they...
The Ministry of Time May 7, 2024
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the...
Alien Clay March 28, 2024
The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident.
Soon after arrival, he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not...
Some Desperate Glory April 11, 2023
While we live, the enemy shall fear us.
Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the...
Project Hail Mary October 4, 2022
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that...
Klara and the Sun March 1, 2022
Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and...
Double Star October 19, 2021
Out-of-work actor Lorenzo Smythe is desperate for his next role when he is recruited for a job unlike any other: to impersonate one of the most powerful political figures in the solar system. What begins as a temporary assignment quickly spirals into something far more dangerous, as Smythe is drawn...
Dreamsnake October 12, 2021
On an Earth scarred by nuclear war, Snake harnesses the power of venom to cure illnesses and vaccinate against disease. The healer can even ease patients into death with the power of her dreamsnake. But she is not respected and trusted by all, and when she tries to help a sick nomad child, the...
Redshirts October 12, 2021
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since the year 2456. It’s a prestige posting, with the chance to serve on "Away Missions" alongside the starship’s famous senior officers. Life couldn’t be better...until Andrew...
Speaker for the Dead June 29, 2021
The Ender Saga, Book 2
Centuries after the events that made him both a hero and a pariah, Ender Wiggin lives on, traveling the stars under a new identity as a “Speaker for the Dead”—one who tells the truth of a person’s life after they are gone. When he is called to the remote colony world of Lusitania, Ender is asked to...
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency April 29, 2021
Dirk Gently, Book 1
What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over two hundred years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common?
Apparently not much; until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to...
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul April 29, 2021
Dirk Gently, Book 2
When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame, the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the...
The Salmon of Doubt April 29, 2021
Dirk Gently, Book 3
This sublime collection dips into the wit and wisdom of the man behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, uncovering his unique comic musings on everything from his school-trousers to malt whisky and from the letter Y through to his own nose, via atheism, hangovers and fried eggs.
These...
A Desolation Called Peace March 2, 2021
Teixcalaan, Book 2
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options.
In a desperate attempt at diplomacy with the mysterious invaders, the fleet captain has sent for a diplomatic envoy. Now Mahit...
Rendezvous With Rama October 13, 2020
An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth’s solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama.
What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced than ours....
Network Effect May 5, 2020
The Murderbot Diaries, Book 5
You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows?
And you're a sentient murder machine...
The Redemption of Time July 16, 2019
At the end of the fourth year of the Crisis Era, Yun Tianming, riddled with cancer, chose to end his life. His decision was the first step in a journey that would take him to the end of the universe and beyond. His brain was extracted from his body, flash frozen, put aboard a spacecraft, and...
A Memory Called Empire March 26, 2019
Teixcalaan, Book 1
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system 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 accident—or that Mahit might be next...
Artemis July 3, 2018
Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.
Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than...
The Calculating Stars July 3, 2018
Lady Astronaut, Book 1
A meteor decimates the U.S. government and paves the way for a climate cataclysm that will eventually render the earth inhospitable to humanity. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated timeline in the earth’s efforts to colonize space, as well as an unprecedented opportunity for a much...
The Demolished Man December 26, 2017
In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in seventy years: murder. That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a ten-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises.
Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and...
The Power October 10, 2017
In *The Power*, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family.
But then a vital new force takes root and...
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time June 8, 2017
One of Tsutsui’s best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious figure that she...
Death's End September 20, 2016
Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 3
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...
Barrayar January 5, 2016
Vorkosigan Saga, Book 2
Sick of combat and betrayal, Cordelia Vorkosigan is ready to settle down to a quiet life. But when the Emperor dies, her husband Aral becomes guardian of the infant heir to the imperial throne of Barrayar and the target of high-tech assassins in a dynastic civil war.
But neither Aral nor Cordelia...
The Snow Queen October 27, 2015
Snow Queen, Book 1
The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin.
Their only chance at surviving the change is if...
The Dark Forest August 11, 2015
Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 2
Earth is no longer alone—and it has learned the terrifying truth too late. As news spreads that an alien civilization is on its way to invade, humanity unites in preparation for a war that will not arrive for centuries. Yet the enemy has already found a way to cripple Earth’s defenses, placing...
Way Station July 21, 2015
Enoch Wallace is not like other humans. Living a secluded life in the backwoods of Wisconsin, he carries a nineteenth-century rifle and never seems to age—a fact that has recently caught the attention of prying government eyes. The truth is, Enoch is the last surviving veteran of the American Civil...
The Three-Body Problem November 11, 2014
Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 1
Amid the turmoil of China’s Cultural Revolution, a young physicist named Ye Wenjie makes a decision that will echo across decades—and beyond the boundaries of Earth itself. Years later, a series of strange and unsettling events begins to trouble the scientific community: experiments yield impossible...
The Peripheral October 28, 2014
Jackpot, Book 1
Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran’s benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC’s elite Haptic Recon force.
Then one night Burton has to go out, but there’s a job he’s...
The Martian October 28, 2014
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to...
Ancillary Justice October 1, 2013
Imperial Radch, Book 1
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...
The Alteration May 7, 2013
In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass...