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• Everfair

  Shawl, Nisi,

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  In this re-imagining of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo, African American missionaries join forces with British socialists to purchase land from the Congo Free State's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, which they name Everfair, is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Peace War

  Vinge, Vernor,

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  The Peace War is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Children of Memory

  Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-

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  The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Left Hand of Darkness

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-

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  A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary's mission to Winter, an unknown alien world whose inhabitants can choose--and change--their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Forever War

  Haldeman, Joe W.

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  Conscripted into service for the United Nations Exploratory Force, a highly trained unit built for revenge, physics student William Mandella fights for his planet light years away against the alien force known as the Taurans. Because of the relative…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stars My Destination

  Bester, Alfred,

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  Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.

• Flux

  a Novel

  Chong, Jinwoo,

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  Four days before Christmas, 8-year-old Bo loses his mother in a tragic accident, 28-year-old Brandon loses his job after a hostile takeover of his big-media employer, and 48-year-old Blue, a key witness in a criminal trial against an infamous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Three-body Problem

  Liu, Cixin

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  A secret military group sends signals into space in hopes of establishing contact with aliens--and succeeds. Picking up their signal is an alien civilization on the brink of destruction who now readies to invade Earth. News of the coming invasion…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Station Eleven

  a Novel

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ancillary Justice

  Leckie, Ann

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  On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kindred

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Terraformers

  Newitz, Annalee, 1969-

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  Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All Systems Red

  Wells, Martha

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  On a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.On a distant planet, a team of scientists are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  Adams, Douglas, 1952-

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  Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fifth Season

  Jemisin, N. K.

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  This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Foundation

  Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992

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  For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future—a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Martian

  a Novel

  Weir, Andy

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  Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Babel

  Or, the Necessity of Violence : An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

  Kuang, R. F. (Rebecca F.),

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  From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sparrow

  Russell, Mary Doria, 1950-

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  A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Children of Men

  James, P. D.

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  The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford…Read moreRead more of this annotation