Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction
By: Xueting Christine Ni
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
A stunning collection of the best in Chinese Science Fiction, from Award-Winning legends to up-and-…
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1. Raven Stratagem (The Machineries of Empire, #2)
By: Yoon Ha Lee
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Captain Kel Cheris is possessed by a long-dead traitor general. Together they must face the rivalri… read more
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- science fiction
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2. The Wandering Earth
By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more
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3. Nightfall and Other Stories
By: Isaac Asimov
3.97
Format: None pages,
A collection of early Asimov short stories, showcasing the development of the author's oeuvre. The … read more
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4. Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
By: Ken Liu , Chen Qiufan , Xia Jia , None , Hao Jingfang , None , Cheng Jingbo , Liu Cixin
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning translator and author Ken Liu presents a collection of short speculative fiction from… read more
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5. On a Red Station, Drifting
By: Aliette de Bodard
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For generations Prosper Station has thrived under the guidance of its Honoured Ancestress: born of … read more
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6. Translation State
By: Ann Leckie
4.09
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more
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- science fiction
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"I am not a potato."-Ann Leckie, Translation State
"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"-Ann Leckie, Translation State
7. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
By: Nghi Vo
4.17
Format: 128 pages, ebook
The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more
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- fiction
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)
8. On the Fox Roads
By: Nghi Vo
4.04
Format: 29 pages, ebook
While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
9. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
10. The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories
By: Yu Chen
3.85
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story … read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
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- science fiction
- china
11. Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon
By: Wole Talabi
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The debut fantasy novel from an award-winning Nigerian author presents a mythic tale of disgruntled… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
12. Supernova Era
By: Liu Cixin
3.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From Cixin Liu, the New York Times bestselling and Hugo award-winning author of The Three Body Prob… read more
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"I really can’t keep it up anymore,"-Liu Cixin, Supernova Era
"All you need to understand right now is this: the world isn't what it used to be"-Liu Cixin, Supernova Era
13. The Tusks of Extinction
By: Ray Nayler
3.85
Format: 192 pages, ebook
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA. Moscow has res… read more
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- speculative fiction
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"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA."-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
"But there were links [to memories] that were broken as well. That no longer led to other memories. Were those memories still there, disconnected but whole, like planets that had escaped the gravity o…"-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
"He was afraid to lose this memory. He returned to it often, like a person checking their pockets to make sure their keys were still there. He had lost so many memories of her. The further away he mov…"-Ray Nayler, The Tusks of Extinction
14. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
15. Vagabonds
By: Hao Jingfang
3.39
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates fro… read more
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- asia
- fiction
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- china
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16. Revenant Gun (The Machineries of Empire, #3)
By: Yoon Ha Lee
4.12
Format: 427 pages, Paperback
Machineries Of Empire, the most exciting science fiction trilogy of the decade, reaches its astonis… read more
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- fiction
"The most maddening part of any battle was the waiting."-Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun (The Machineries of Empire, #3)
"the unassuming ones were always agents of revolutionary change."-Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun (The Machineries of Empire, #3)
"According to some law of fuckery and bad luck, enemies always arrived at the most inconvenient time, by chance if not by design."-Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun (The Machineries of Empire, #3)
"In the Compact, there’s a nascent democratic state backed by High General Kel Brezan. The Kel are having fits trying to figure out the mess."-Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun (The Machineries of Empire, #3)
17. Big Time
By: Ben H. Winters
3.43
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
Ben Winters, whom critics attest "you'll follow...anywhere" ( New York Times Book Review ), return… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fiction
18. The Doors of Eden
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.87
Format: 609 pages, ebook
Lee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of … read more
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- speculative fiction
- fiction
19. The Death I Gave Him
By: Em X. Liu
3.37
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
A lyrical, queer sci-fi retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet as a locked-room thriller Hayden Lichf… read more
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20. The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
By: Ken Liu
3.93
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
original cover of ISBN 9781982134037 From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipate… read more
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- short story collection
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
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- speculative fiction
"Nostalgia is a wound that we refuse time to heal."-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
"The act of remembering is an act of retracing, and by doing so we erase and change the stencil."-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
"As the author, I construct an artifact out of words, but the words are meaningless until they're animated by the consciousness of the reader. The story is co-told by the author and the reader, and ev…"-Ken Liu, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories
21. Phoenix Extravagant
By: Yoon Ha Lee
3.67
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Dragons. Art. Revolution. Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. … read more
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"I’ll go up first,"-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant
"Phoenix Extravagant for destructive power, as befits an engine of war."-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant
"But so many people aren't ready for this, Jebi. Artists. Charm-sellers. Grocers. Tailors. People who just want to get by, and who won't be given a choice when the guns begin to speak again."-Yoon Ha Lee, Phoenix Extravagant
22. Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction
By: Xueting Christine Ni
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
A stunning collection of the best in Chinese Science Fiction, from Award-Winning legends to up-and-… read more
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- short story collection
- asia
- anthologies
- chinese literature
- short stories
- fiction
- asian literature
- china
- speculative fiction
- science fiction
23. Waste Tide
By: Chen Qiufan
3.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
12 hrs 15 mins Mimi is a 'waste girl', a member of the lowest caste on Silicon Isle. Located of… read more
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- fiction
- asian literature
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"Uncle Chen's laugh was gentle, and he looked at the young man with pity and affection. "Remember, from the beginning of history till now, we have had only one society: a society based on the law of t…"-Chen Qiufan, Waste Tide
"So selfish. Chen Kaizong's first response upon hearing the elder's soliloquy was disgust. He knew very well how people were exploited and oppressed. This was a common theme throughout history: take a…"-Chen Qiufan, Waste Tide
24. The Lonesome Bodybuilder
By: Yukiko Motoya
3.59
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique--which her workaholic hu… read more
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- asian literature
- asia
- short stories
- fiction
"You must think you're really something. Calling yourself a phenomenon."-Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder
"Life’s not worth living if you’re not tending to the whims and demands of a high-maintenance lover!"-Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder
"When I woke up and looked in the mirror, I saw that my face had finally begun to forget who I was. I guessed my features had just been caught off guard that day. When I peered closer, they rushed to …"-Yukiko Motoya, The Lonesome Bodybuilder
25. Beautiful Star
By: Yukio Mishima
3.19
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
The Osugi family have come to a realisation. Each of them hails from a different planet. Father fro… read more
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- asia
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- science fiction
"Every morning, the newspapers are crammed full of human-interest stories, and on television we see one human after another. When animals do make an occasional appearance, they are ascribed human char…"-Yukio Mishima, Beautiful Star
26. Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou: Deluxe Edition 4
By: Hitoshi Ashinano
4.55
Format: 498 pages, Paperback
THE AIR AS THICK AS SYRUP, MINUTES MELT AWAY. The world festival is over, and the sun is setting… read more
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- science fiction
27. The Ten Percent Thief
By: Lavanya Lakshminarayan
3.81
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, th… read more
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- speculative fiction
- short stories
- fiction
28. Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
By: Ken Liu
3.85
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ANTHOLOGYSixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking science fi… read more
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- asia
- anthologies
- chinese literature
- short stories
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- asian literature
- china
- science fiction
"Meaning was not reducible to language. But if it couldn't be spoken about, how could it exist?"-Ken Liu, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
"Yellow-Beard said, “All the fire-oil carriages running about in Jinyang were built here. They make up more than half the Institute’s income. The newest model will be released soon. It’s called Elong …"-Ken Liu, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
"It was three-quarters of the way into the hour of the sheep, after lunch but well before dinner, naturally a fine time for business in the brothels of Xuanren Ward. Powder and perfume steamed in the …"-Ken Liu, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
"Las escalonadas ramas verdes del antiguo cipresal, cual si de un cortafuegos se tratara, nos separan del ruido y el polvo del mundo secular. No obstante, mi vida diaria no es ni de lejos aburrida: ba…"-Ken Liu, Broken Stars: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
29. The Wings Upon Her Back
By: Samantha Mills
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A loyal warrior in a crisis of faith must fight to regain her place and begin her life again while … read more
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- speculative fiction
- fiction
30. New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction
By: Neil Clarke
4.00
Format: 268 pages, ebook
Science fiction is international in scope, but many works are often unavailable to readers because … read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- anthologies
31. A Summer Beyond Your Reach
By: Xia Jia
4.25
Format: 310 pages, ebook
“There is perhaps no voice better suited to tell the stories of contemporary China's conflicted, la… read more
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- anthologies
- chinese literature
- short stories
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- science fiction
- china
