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    Binti book 2

    1. Home

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • Same series
    • Same author

    Binti, a young woman of the Himba people, has left Earth for the university on another world and survived a war. In the second novella she returns home to her...

  2. The Calculating Stars

    Lady Astronaut book 1 Start here

    2. 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...

  3. Iron Gold

    3. 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...

  4. Head On

    4. 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...

  5. Revenant Gun

    Machineries Of Empire book 3

    5. 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....

  6. Record of a Spaceborn Few

    Wayfarers book 3

    6. 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...

  7. Space Opera

    7. 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...

  8. Rosewater

    8. 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...

  9. Blackfish City

    9. 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...

  10. Semiosis

    10. 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...

  11. Frankenstein in Baghdad

    11. 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...

  12. The Electric State (cover not available)

    12. 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...

  13. The Loosening Skin (cover not available)

    13. 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...

  14. Vengeful

    14. 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...

  15. Vox

    15. 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...

  16. Only Human

    16. 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...

  17. Red Clocks

    17. 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...

  18. Persepolis Rising

    The Expanse book 7

    18. 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...

  19. Artificial Condition

    The Murderbot Diaries book 2

    19. Artificial Condition

    by Wells, Martha

    • On the same lists

    It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories...

  20. Severance

    20. 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....

  21. Lagoon

    21. Lagoon

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • Same author

    Three strangers, a marine biologist who has just had a bust-up with her husband, a soldier who has just had a fight with his superior, and a rapper who has...

  22. Death of the Author

    22. Death of the Author

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • Same author

    Zelu, a paraplegic Nigerian American writer, has just lost her teaching job and her novel is going nowhere, until she starts a book about robots in a post-human Nigeria. Rusted...

  23. Remote Control

    23. Remote Control

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • Same author

    After a meteor shower, a glowing seed lands near a shea tree in northern Ghana and gives a girl named Fatima a deadly power: anything she touches dies. After a...

  24. The Book Of Phoenix

    Who Fears Death book 2

    24. The Book Of Phoenix

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • Same author

    As we have seen in books like Man Plus, one way to achieve posthumanity is to remake ourselves in a new form. But experimenting upon ourselves in that way comes...

  25. Who Fears Death

    Who Fears Death book 1 Start here

    25. Who Fears Death

    by Okorafor, Nnedi

    • Same author

    Born into post-apocalyptic Africa to a mother who was raped after the slaughter of her entire tribe, Onyesonwu is tutored by a shaman and discovers that her magical destiny is...

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