Annie, a robot built to satisfy her human owner, slowly begins to recognize her own desires and dignity within a life defined by obedience. The novel sharply frames the boundaries between control and consent, intimacy and autonomy, as a near-future fable.

A being built to obey begins to ask what her own life can be.

Marine biologist Leigh is drawn from a mysterious deep-sea anomaly into research that links ocean science to the far reaches of space. The novel combines family strain with a vast philosophical inquiry into origins, belonging, and humanity's place in the cosmos.

From the ocean floor to the edge of the cosmos, one pursuit keeps widening.

In a near future where extinction has become a market, a scientist and a corporate fixer form an uneasy alliance to save a highly intelligent fish. The novel blends sharp satire of environmental collapse, capitalism, and bureaucracy with a fast-moving science-fiction thriller.

A hunt for one fish exposes the distortions of an entire world.

An experimental novel written in Scots poetry, Deep Wheel Orcadia follows life and memory in a spaceborne city. Its language is as central as its setting.

A space city brought to life through the rhythm of Scots verse.

Speculative fiction novel about interspecies communication triggered by a pandemic, inspired by chikungunya virus experience.

Speculative fiction novel about interspecies communication triggered by a pandemic, inspired by chikungunya virus experience.

A sprawling debut tracing intertwined histories of three families over generations in and around Lusaka, exploring colonialism, migration, and the interplay of technology and politics. The novel mixes historical narrative with speculative/near-future elements and varied narrative forms.

A sprawling debut tracing intertwined histories of three families over generations in and around Lusaka, exploring colonialism, migration, and the interplay of technology and politics.

A science-fiction novel set in the Nigerian city of Rosewater and the mysterious biodome that has appeared there. A government agent becomes entangled in events involving memory, psychic ability, and an unknown presence.

In the city around an alien dome, the future, politics, and the uncanny overlap.

Beginning in near-future London, this science fiction novel follows several generations as reproductive medicine and the shape of family change rapidly. Artificial wombs, solo reproduction, and genetic choice unsettle intimacy, class, and the meaning of parenthood.

When technology seems to offer every answer, the question of family becomes more complicated.

A nonfiction book by Colson Whitehead that uses The Underground Railroad to explore african american / general and underground railroad, with fugitive slaves in view.

A story where african american / general meets underground railroad.

A science-fiction novel about a community stranded on a sunless planet, where language, belief, and power slowly change across generations.

Inside a sealed world, human society slowly mutates.

A dystopian novel in which a young woman confronts reproductive control and the politics of survival in a collapsing society.

Survival and bodily freedom cannot be separated.

A dark fantasy set in Johannesburg, where criminals are marked by animal companions, and a missing-person case pulls the heroine deeper into the city’s violence and magic.

A Johannesburg noir where fantasy, crime, and moral reckoning collide.

A strange, political crime novel about two cities that exist side by side while refusing to acknowledge one another. Borders themselves become the story.

The border becomes a mystery larger than the murder.

Song of Time is a science-fiction novel that explores time and the transformation of memory and offers substantial reading.

It leaves a quiet afterglow through time and the transformation of memory.

In a near-future society shaped by genetic engineering and discrimination, the novel follows an altered soldier caught in a chain of violence. It sharply examines how institutions control bodies and push people into the logic of revenge and survival.

In a world of engineered bodies, who owns violence?

Set in a near-future city, the novel follows people whose lives intersect around a zone where uncanny events keep breaking through. Through loss, desire, and blurred borders between reality and the strange, it turns the city itself into part of the mystery.

At the edge of the city, the border between the real and the unreal quietly comes apart.

A novel about the cultural and social changes that follow when a remote village is connected to the new communications technology called Air. It traces how outside information reshapes daily life, memory, creativity, and the community itself.

A new connection begins to reshape the village’s memory and communal life.

New Crobuzon is shaken by war and conflict as the legend of the rebels who stole a train returns to the center of the story, where revolution feels both fragile and imminent.

A lost train legend begins moving again as the city edges toward collapse.

A sprawling novel that crosses science history and adventure fiction. Set in 17th-century Europe, it follows the movement of technology, money, and knowledge as multiple lives intersect.

An epic novel where science history meets adventure.

Against a wartime backdrop, the same events are refracted through different perspectives, exposing the instability of reality. Twins, branching history, and gaps in memory drive a psychological SF thriller about what can be trusted.

Branching histories unsettle what counts as real.

A near-future society ties music to political power, and the story follows musicians and activists as they navigate cultural change. Pop culture and ideology collide while personal identity and public responsibility are tested.

A future society where music and politics are inseparable.

Set in the huge city of New Crobuzon, the novel follows scientist Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin as he is drawn into the aftermath of forbidden research and a request from a half-bird Garuda that leads toward a threat to the entire city. It is a sprawling novel in which magic, industry, strange species, and oppression are fused into something fiercely imaginative.

In the city of New Crobuzon, where magic and industry collide, one request awakens a nightmare for the whole metropolis.

Set in a fractured near-future America after the collapse of the information economy, the novel follows political fixer Oscar Valparaiso as he is drawn into a web of elections, corporations, military power, and genetic engineering. Its sharp satire and technological critique capture the anxiety of a country worn down and being remade.

In a collapsing nation, an election campaign and genetic engineering unsettle a political operative's world.

Set in a colony maintained by the AI Ganesh, this novel follows Kalypso Deed as she tries to survive between dream-mediated control and a community on the brink of collapse. It is a tense science fiction story in which networks of dreaming, memory, desire, and survival all intersect.

When the dream-linked AI society begins to fail, a young operator's choices determine the colony's future.

Amitav Ghosh's novel moves between near-future New York and Victorian India. Through the history of malaria research and the mystery of a vanished man, it brings to light the knowledge and power hidden beneath history.

A science thriller that turns colonial memory inside out.

A cyberpunk novel in which actress Marva wakes in a hologram pool carrying the memory of a murder and is pulled into a maze of pursuit and unstable memory. Reality and virtual experience layer over one another as the chase unfolds with unsettling humor and violence.

When memory and virtual reality begin to slip out of alignment, the chase changes shape.

A memoir that follows three generations of women in China and turns the twentieth century into a family history moving through war, revolution, and the Cultural Revolution.

A memoir that reads twentieth-century China through three generations of women.

Marge Piercy's cyberpunk novel sets a story of women, cyborgs, and golems in a devastated future society. It explores the relationships among the body, family, and power.

A landmark feminist SF novel where future ruin meets ancient myth.

Pat Cadigan's cyberpunk novel is set in a world where the boundary between technology and humanity has become thin. Media, addiction, and bodily transformation all intertwine as the story moves forward.

A sharp, unsettling story from an era in which technology reshapes body and mind.

A space opera built around a distinctive protagonist and spanning galactic adventure and cultural encounter. With humor and human insight, it explores questions of cross-cultural contact and identity.

A space opera of galactic adventure and cultural encounter.

A poetic and experimental science-fiction novel set in a future transformed by genetics, language change, and altered education. It follows the tension between creativity, control, and personal growth.

In a transformed future, both language and the body are managed.

A near-future fantasy that weaves together religious motifs and spiritual searching. Through faith, cults, and personal renewal, it allegorically explores the boundary between society and self.

In a world where miracles are ordinary, the meanings of faith and freedom begin to shift.

A climate-dystopian novel set in a future Australia where rising seas, scarcity, and social hierarchy drive tension and violence. It shows how corruption and class conflict erode everyday life.

As the sea rises, the social fault lines deepen.

A dystopian novel set in Gilead, where women’s fertility is controlled and Offred is forced to serve as a handmaid. It explores oppression, memory, resistance, and identity under religious authoritarianism.

In a society that governs reproduction, freedom and memory keep resisting.