Hummingbird Salamander
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.25
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered sp…
Want to Read $ 12.99"But the trick of the world was to contain all things."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"There was a tear in the sleeve of her blouse. Her pink nail polish had chipped. Details were escaping her. I sympathized."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
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1. Kraken
By: China Miéville
3.62
Format: 509 pages, Hardcover
With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- mystery
"My Google-fu is strong."-China Miéville, Kraken
"The bullets are gun-eggs,"-China Miéville, Kraken
"Death isn't what it used to be"-China Miéville, Kraken
"Any moment called now is always full of possibles."-China Miéville, Kraken
2. The Scar (Bas-Lag, #2)
By: China Miéville
3.80
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Aboard a vast seafaring vessel, a band of prisoners and slaves, their bodies remade into grotesque … read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
3. This Census-Taker
By: China Miéville
4.15
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
For readers of George Saunders, Kelly Link, and Karen Russell, This Census Takeris the poignant and… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
4. The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
By: Laird Barron
4.00
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
To the long tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, P… read more
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
"Wisdom devours the weak."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
"...he was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered."-Laird Barron, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories
5. Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Vol. 1
By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Brian Attebery
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The star-spanning story of humanity's colonization of other planets, Ursula K. Le Guin's visionary … read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
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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- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"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. What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
By: T. Kingfisher
3.89
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones comes a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edg… read more
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- fiction
- mystery
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"You shouldn't joke about fairies."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"The dead don’t walk. Except, sometimes, when they do."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"Most of us go to the Devil without him having to personally oversee things."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
"I had a strong urge to step back from them, and an even stronger urge to poke them with a stick."-T. Kingfisher, What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
8. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
By: Becky Chambers
None
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-a… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
9. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.02
Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition
The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
10. Venomous Lumpsucker
By: Ned Beauman
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more
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- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
"I can’t believe this!"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
11. Hummingbird Salamander
By: Jeff VanderMeer
3.25
Format: 351 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered sp… read more
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- mystery thriller
- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- thriller
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- mystery
- audiobook
"But the trick of the world was to contain all things."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"Were companies units or loose, ever-shifting alliances of individuals? Still didn't know."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together."-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
"The Christmas decorations at the entrance were garish, incomprehensible, partisan. What kind of a country did we live in?"-Jeff VanderMeer, Hummingbird Salamander
12. In Ascension
By: Martin MacInnes
3.79
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension
13. Sea of Tranquility
By: Emily St. John Mandel
4.07
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 t… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,"-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"You should have told me my cat was a time traveler."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"There's a low-level, specific pain and having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"What if one were to dissolve into the wilderness like salt into water. He wants to go home. For the first time, Edwin begins to worry about his sanity."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
14. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
By: Becky Chambers
4.41
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
15. How High We Go in the Dark
By: Sequoia Nagamatsu
3.83
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Cliff Miyashiro arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue his recently deceased daughter's resea… read more
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- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Death has become a way of life"-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark
"Life is always easier for boys."-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark
"She always preferred celestial objects to people."-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark
"Embrace possibility, but don't let it drag you down"-Sequoia Nagamatsu, How High We Go in the Dark
16. Hollow
By: Brian Catling
3.77
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the acclaimed author of the Vorrh Trilogy comes an epic odyssey following a group of mercenari… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
- audiobook
17. The Marigold
By: Andrew F. Sullivan
3.32
Format: 360 pages, ebook
An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here. In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environm… read more
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- adult
- dystopia
- fiction
- science fiction
- thriller
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
18. The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves
3.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- science fiction
- thriller
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
19. Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2: The Word for World Is Forest / Five Ways to Forgiveness / The Telling / Stories
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.54
Format: 789 pages, Hardcover
This second volume of Le Guin’s complete Hainish novels and stories opens with the Hugo Award–winni… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- fiction
20. Creeping Jenny
By: Jeff Noon
3.99
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
The third book in Jeff Noon's widely acclaimed 'Nyquist Mysteries' find our protagonist caught up i… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- thriller
- fantasy
- mystery
