The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures
By: Joey Eschrich
3.44
Format: 248 pages, ebook
A collection of science fiction stories, art, and essays exploring human futures powered by solar e…
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1. Stories of Your Life and Others
By: Ted Chiang
4.26
Format: 281 pages, ebook
What if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and broke through to Heaven's other side? What if we… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- anthologies
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"Pragmatism avails a savior far more than aestheticism."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"I remember when you'll be a month old, and I'll stumble out of bed to give you your 2:00 a.m. feeding."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
"Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut."-Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
2. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
By: Aldo Leopold
4.30
Format: 269 pages, Paperback
First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more
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- environment
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
3. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
By: Timothy Snyder
4.38
Format: 524 pages, Hardcover
Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more
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"Now we will live!"-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
4. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
5. Too Like the Lightning (Terra Ignota, #1)
By: Ada Palmer
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, t… read more
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- fiction
6. 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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7. Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation
By: Daniel José Older , Lavie Tidhar , Bogi Takács , Nisi Shawl , Kristine Ong Muslim , Lisa M. Bradley , A.C. Wise , Iona Sharma , Jaymee Goh , S. Qiouyi Lu , None , None , Brandon Crilly , Chloe N. Clark , Sara Norja , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None , None
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is the first anthology to broadly collect solarp… read more
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8. Elder Race
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.11
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the local… read more
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- short stories
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9. The Hollow Places
By: T. Kingfisher
3.80
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in thi… read more
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"If there's a way into hell, someone will always find it."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
"No one has zombie raccoons roaming around their museum. That would just be silly."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
"We had passed close in space, but separated by far too much time to make a difference."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
"You're from Florida. There's got to be more holes to hell in Florida than any other state."-T. Kingfisher, The Hollow Places
10. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
By: Olga Ravn
3.67
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
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"This is not a human, but a coworker."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century
11. To Be Taught, If Fortunate
By: Becky Chambers
4.20
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, ins… read more
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- science fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"Hope isn't about predicting the future; it's about how you approach it."-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
"Even if nothing ever does go wrong, I have to prepare as though it might."-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
"We were alive on that world. We were kings without enemies, children removed from time."-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
"When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists."-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
12. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
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"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
13. L'Iris blanc (Astérix, #40)
By: Fabcaro
3.83
Format: 48 pages, Hardcover
« Pour éclairer la forêt, la floraison d’un seul iris suffit » L’Iris blanc est le nom d’une nouvel… read more
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14. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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- climate change
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
15. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more
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"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
16. Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers
By: Sarena Ulibarri
3.78
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energ… read more
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- anthologies
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- science fiction
- climate change fiction
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- environment
17. Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World
By: Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro
3.37
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
Imagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the en… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
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- climate change
- climate change fiction
- speculative fiction
- environment
18. Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures
By: Christoph Rupprecht
3.70
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Cities are alive, shared by humans and animals, insects and plants, landforms and machines. What mi… read more
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- anthologies
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- science fiction
- climate change
- climate change fiction
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19. Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters
By: Sarena Ulibarri
3.87
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to prot… read more
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- climate change
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- speculative fiction
20. The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures
By: Joey Eschrich
3.44
Format: 248 pages, ebook
A collection of science fiction stories, art, and essays exploring human futures powered by solar e… read more
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- climate change
- climate change fiction
- speculative fiction
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