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  1. System Collapse

    The Murderbot Diaries book 7

    1. System Collapse

    by Wells, Martha

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back.Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a...

  2. Fugitive Telemetry

    The Murderbot Diaries book 6

    2. Fugitive Telemetry

    by Wells, Martha

    • Same series
    • Same author

    No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it...

  3. Network Effect

    The Murderbot Diaries book 5

    3. Network Effect

    by Wells, Martha

    • Same series
    • Same author
    Hugo winner 2021 Nebula winner 2020

    Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.You know that feeling when you’re at work, and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet...

  4. All Systems Red

    The Murderbot Diaries book 1 Start here

    4. All Systems Red

    by Wells, Martha

    • Same series
    • Same author

    The series is about an artificial construct designed as a Security Unit, which manages to override its governor unit, thus enabling it to develop independence. It calls itself Murderbot, and...

  5. The Calculating Stars

    Lady Astronaut book 1 Start here

    5. The Calculating Stars

    by Mary Robinette Kowal

    • On the same lists
    Hugo winner 2019 Nebula winner 2018

    On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington, DC. The ensuing climate...

  6. Iron Gold

    6. Iron Gold

    by Brown, Pierce

    • On the same lists

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the epic next chapter of the Red Rising Saga, the #1 bestselling author of Morning Star pushes the boundaries of one of the boldest...

  7. Head On

    7. Head On

    by John Scalzi

    • On the same lists

    Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through...

  8. Revenant Gun

    Machineries Of Empire book 3

    8. Revenant Gun

    by Yoon Ha Lee

    • On the same lists

    "Shuos Jedao is awake... and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet--a nobody--in the body of an old man; a general in command of an elite force....

  9. Record of a Spaceborn Few

    Wayfarers book 3

    9. Record of a Spaceborn Few

    by Becky Chambers

    • On the same lists

    Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a place many are from but few outsiders have seen. Humanity has finally been accepted into...

  10. Space Opera

    10. Space Opera

    by Valente, Catherynne M.

    • On the same lists

    "Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent...

  11. Rosewater

    11. Rosewater

    by Tade Thompson

    • On the same lists

    "Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless--people eager for a...

  12. Blackfish City

    12. Blackfish City

    by Sam J. Miller

    • On the same lists

    Qaanaaq is a floating Arctic city built after the climate wars, crowded with refugees and spreading a disease called the breaks. When a mysterious woman arrives riding an orca with...

  13. Semiosis

    13. Semiosis

    by Sue Burke

    • On the same lists

    "Colonists from Earth wanted the perfect home, but they'll have to survive on the one they found. They don't realize another life form watches...and waits...Only mutual communication can forge an...

  14. Frankenstein in Baghdad

    14. Frankenstein in Baghdad

    by Ahmed Saadawi

    • On the same lists

    In Baghdad during the American occupation, a junk dealer called Hadi stitches together body parts of bombing victims to give them a proper burial. The body he assembles comes to...

  15. The Electric State (cover not available)

    15. The Electric State

    by Simon Stalenhag

    • On the same lists

    In an alternate 1997, a teenage girl and her robot companion Skip travel across a ruined American West where a war between humans and drones has left behind giant machines...

  16. The Loosening Skin (cover not available)

    16. The Loosening Skin

    by Aliya Whiteley

    • On the same lists

    In a world where people shed their skin every seven years and lose their attachments with it, Rose Allington has a syndrome that makes her moult far more often. Years...

  17. Vengeful

    17. Vengeful

    by Schwab, V. E.

    • On the same lists

    A superpowered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions--V.E. Schwab returns with the thrilling follow-up to Vicious.MAGNETO and PROFESSOR X SUPERMAN and LEX LUTHOR SYDNEY and SERENA CLARKE VICTOR VALE...

  18. Vox

    18. Vox

    by Christina Dalcher

    • On the same lists

    On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not...

  19. Only Human

    19. Only Human

    by Neuvel, Sylvain

    • On the same lists

    "World War Z meets The Martian in the explosive follow-up to Sleeping Giants ("One of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory"--NPR) and Waking Gods ("Pure, unadulterated literary escapism"--Kirkus...

  20. Red Clocks

    20. Red Clocks

    by Leni Zumas

    • On the same lists

    In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every...

  21. The Night Masquerade

    Binti book 3

    21. The Night Masquerade

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • On the same lists

    Binti has returned home after the war, and the peace she has helped to build is threatened as the Khoush and Himba peoples are at odds again. The third Binti...

  22. Persepolis Rising

    The Expanse book 7

    22. Persepolis Rising

    by James S.a. Corey

    • On the same lists

    The seventh book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Persepolis Rising finds an old enemy returning home with more power and technology than anyone thought possible, and the crew of...

  23. Severance

    23. Severance

    by Ling Ma

    • On the same lists

    Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty....

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