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John Scalzi 's Starter Villain is a sweet standalone fiction novel. The protagonist is a down-on-his-luck everyman, currently feeling s...

Ray Nayler 's novella The Tusks of Extinction follows the consciousness of a scientist fighting elephant poaching, in her life before a...

Fine Structure is a scifi novel by author qntm . It starts in the present day with some physicists constructing an experiment to test their...

Time to Orbit: Unknown is a novel by Derin Edala . It's the length of maybe 5 standard novels, but available to read in its entirety on...

Mur Lafferty 's Six Wakes is a science fiction novel set on an interstellar ship, a whodunnit novel about clones and implanted memories...

Jess Fink 's We Can Fix It! is a brief graphic novel that investigates the question: what if you could travel back in time to formativ...

There is no antimemetics division is a novel / series of short stories / piece of collaborative fiction authored by qntm . The entire work ...

 I take attendance by having students answer a question. What parallel-universe version of yourself would you like to be? (all typos below a...

Artificial Condition is the second in Martha Wells ' "The Murderbot Diaries" series; it won a Hugo award in 2019. It continu...

All Systems Red is the first in Martha Wells ' "The Murderbot Diaries" series; it won a Hugo award in 2018. It is a first-pe...

This Is How You Lose the Time War  by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is an epistolary romance novel(la) between opposing time-travel agent...

Empress of Forever is Max Gladstone 's doorstop-sized foray into science fiction. It tells the story of Vivian Lao, a tech CEO/brillian...

This classic recently bubbled back to the forefront of my attention because of its lovely new reissued cover art (bright green), so I reread...

Ada Palmer 's Too Like the Lightning  takes place in the future, a 25th century whose views of our modern day are as colored by weird h...

Yoon Ha Lee 's Ninefox Gambit  is a fun bit of military, space-battle science fiction. It opens in media res , mid-battle, and that is w...

The nominees for Hugo Awards have been announced . It's yet another interesting sociological study in gaming voting systems. The number ...

Nnedi Okorafor 's The Book of Phoenix fits the mold of her previous writing ( Binti , Lagoon ) for me: it is vaguely science-fiction/fa...

Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet tells the story of the motley crew of a wormhole-constructing spaceship, as they ...

After enjoying the trilogy's first book and disliking the second , I popped from the top of my book-stack the third one: Elizabeth Bear...

Peter Watts ' Echopraxia is not so much a sequel to Blindsight as a sequentially-timed companion piece. The characters and locations ar...