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• Metropolis

  Kerr, Philip

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  It's 1928 in Berlin, a city where nothing is truly verboten and the Nazi party has begun to influence a nation heading toward the Third Reich. Young Bernie Gunther has joined Berlin's Murder Squad. His first case is successful, but it is more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Tusks of Extinction

  Nayler, Ray

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  Ray Nayler won the 2025 Hugo Award for Best Novella with this brief but powerful meditation on deextinction and poaching. "...an uncompromising climate fiction that strikes like a spear to the gut" -- Publishers Weekly

• Sea of Tranquility

  a Novel

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  Spanning time from Vancouver Island in 1912, Brooklyn in 2020, a moon colony in 2203, to 2401 when Gaspery-Jacques Roberts is hired by the secretive Time Institute to investigate mysterious temporal anomalies. "Masterfully plotted and deeply moving,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chain Gang All Stars

  a Novel

  Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame

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  "Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopian novel Chain-Gang All-Stars simulates a private for-profit prison system where prisoners compete for freedom in live-broadcast gladiator-inspired death matches." -- National Book Awards

• The Queens of Crime

  a Novel

  Benedict, Marie

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  "Benedict follows The Mystery of Mrs. Christie with a shrewd speculative whodunit that imagines Agatha Christie's peers joining her to investigate a murder in 1931 London. " -- Publishers Weekly

• Ringworld

  Niven, Larry

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  In the 29th century, 200-year-old Louis Wu is suffering from the ennui of his extended life when he is offered the chance of a lifetime: an exploratory mission to an artificial world.

• North Woods

  a Novel

  Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe)

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  "This remarkable new novel from Mason (The Winter Soldier) is the story of the United States from precolonial times through the present day and beyond, from the perspective of a single house in Western Massachusetts. " -- Library Journal

• Children of Time

  Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-

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  An attempt to uplift primates on a terraformed world instead leads to the creation of a species of sentient spiders and a tense encounter with human refugees centuries later. Part of a trilogy that was nominated for the 2023 Hugo Award for best…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Postman

  Brin, David

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  A lone man wandering in the chaos and violence of a post-apocalyptic world in search of some semblance of order and civility, puts on the discarded uniform of a postal letter-carrier and, inadvertently, becomes a symbol of hope.

• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

  a Novel

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia

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  Branching off from H.G. Wells' classic novel, we meet Dr. Moreau's daughter, Carlota, who has grown up on her father's strange ranch in northern Yucatán. A rare visit from her father's patron sparks a series of changes and an awakening on many…Read moreRead more of this annotation