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The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsOf course the noted Lady Astronaut Elma York would like to go, but there’s a lot riding on whoever the International Aerospace Coalition decides to send on this historic—but potentially very dangerous—mission? Could Elma really leave behind her husband and the chance to start a family to spend several years traveling to Mars? And with the Civil Rights movement taking hold all over Earth, will...Categorized as:
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World Without by Sarah Lyons Fleming
In a world without, hunger may be as deadly as zombiesWith their Safe Zone overrun by the undead, taking refuge in the mountains seems like the safest bet for Rose, Tom, and the other survivors. There’s one catch, however—between last spring’s human exodus and a neighboring group’s stockpiles, there’s no food left to scavenge... -
残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋,把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵,沉入沼泽,沉入深渊,我想埋下腐烂的根系,长出见血封喉的荆棘,刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past... -
残次品 [Can Ci Pin | Imperfections] by Priest
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”——狄更斯《双城记》“我带着深藏骨血的仇恨与酝酿多年的阴谋,把自己变成一个死而复生的幽灵,沉入沼泽,沉入深渊,我想埋下腐烂的根系,长出见血封喉的荆棘,刺穿这个虚伪的文明。我到了淤泥深处……捡到了一颗星星。”It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.—— C. Dickens《A Tale of Two Cities》I took my hatred and plot for revenge with me down the mire, to the depths of the abyss, and returned as a ghost of the past... -
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Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsFrom the 2017 John W. Campbell Award Winner for Best Writer, Ada Palmer's Perhaps the Stars is the final book of the Hugo Award-shortlisted Terra Ignota series.World Peace turns into global civil war.In the future, the leaders of Hive nations—nations without fixed location—clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability... -
Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 32 ratings*2018 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL CATEGORY*In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war…a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end... -
The Will to Battle by Ada Palmer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end.Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location... -
Pancakes by Manna Francis
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAnother short story based on The Administration series. Warrick's and Toreth's relationship goes to the next level but it frightens Toreth off... -
The Artist by Elin Peer
For more than four hundred years, women have ruled the world, but things are finally shifting.My father Magni always despised the Motherlands, and I’m no fan either, but I still go to the yearly summer gatherings that started when I was sixteen. The Northlands, Motherlands, and Old Europe each sends five future leaders... -
The Explorer by Elin Peer
Flirting with danger is Aubri’s idea of fun. Ever since we were children, I’ve known Aubri wasn’t like other females. She’s the daughter of Magni and Laura Aurelius, who raised her to be a fearless warrior. Men are blinded by Aubri’s beauty, charm, and social status. Yet, at twenty-seven, no one has succeeded in making her his wife... -
Lonely Shore by Jenn Burke, Kelly Jensen
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBook two of Chaos StationAll they can do is live day to day... Felix Ingesson has returned to his duties as the Chaos's engineer with Zander Anatolius, his ex-boyfriend-turned-broken-super-soldier, at his side. Hope means something again. But there's nothing Felix can do to battle the alien poison flowing through Zander's veins, or his imminent mental decline... -
How We End by L.M. Juniper
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA deadly infection. Seven Strangers. The fight for survival begins...Jake didn’t think his night could get worse, but that was before his train stops deep underground and zombies attack and things go from worst-day-ever to run-for-your-life terror.Liv is good at running, mostly from other people straight into a bottle of vodka... -
Without The Game by Manna Francis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAnother short story in The Administration series... -
TruLove by Nicole Pyland
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn an ever-changing and complex world, it can be hard to find love. But there’s a new company called TruLove, and they offer people a chance to take a few tests and receive a list of the top ten people on the planet that they could be happy with. No more of this ‘one person in the world for each person... -
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Survival by Rita Potter
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsForty-eight hours after the Upheaval, reality is beginning to set in at the Whitaker Estate. The world, As We Know It, has ended.Dillon Mitchell and her friends are left to survive, after discovering most of the population, at least in the United States, has mysteriously died... -
Mercs by Jay Allan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEarth has been a scarred ruin for three decades, its scattered people struggling to survive amid the poisoned and radioactive wreckage of the final war between its despotic Superpowers. While the people of Earth struggle to survive, out on the frontier, on a thousand worlds, mankind thrives and grows, building new civilizations and looking boldly to the future... -
Detroit by J.N. Smith
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBetween her first cup of coffee and her daily dose of Xanax, Jane receives a cryptic warning from a trusted friend.Get out of the city. Now!Narrowly escaping with her children, she watches in horror as Detroit, along with dozens of cities across the globe, becomes trapped behind “Veils”.As Jane navigates the modern-day dystopia, she meets Army veteran Matt Patterson...Categorized as:
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Palm Meridian by Grace Flahive
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA rollicking, big-hearted story of long-lost love, friendship, and a life well-lived, set at a Florida retirement resort for queer women, on the last day of resident Hannah Cardin’s life—for readers of Less and The Wedding People... -
Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFaced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a series of sudden and inexplicable deaths in a searing sci-fi thriller from the Compton Crook Award–winning author of The Space Between Worlds.Scales is the best at what she She is an enforcer who keeps the peace in Ashtown, a rough, climate-ravaged desert town... -
The Significant by Kyra Anderson
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe beloved leader of a planet... A non-citizen fugitive... And a secret love that could kill them both. Kailynn Evada was born on the most powerful planet in the Altereye System, but was raised in the non-citizen district of Trid. She always dreamed of revolution and changing the injustices of the planet Tiao. But when her brother’s plot to destroy the A.I... -
Shopping, No Fucking by Manna Francis
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAnother short story in The Administration series.Warrick and Toreth finally go shopping for curtains... -
Unaccustomed As I Am... by Manna Francis
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAnother short story in The Administration series.Sara has been Toreth's admin for 10 years now. They are all are her big decade party... -
Pool School by Manna Francis
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAnother short story in The Administration series.The whole cast of characters go out for an evening of strip clubs. Warrick and Toreth decide to play a game of Strip Pool... -
Mirror Mirror by Manna Francis
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAnother short story in The Administration series... -
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Hanger, Vol. 2 by Hirotaka Kisaragi
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsIn a futuristic Neo-Tokyo, crime is rising rapidly in the wake of a new generation of super-drugs capable of enhancing the user's physical and mental abilities. Hajime Tsukomo is a new recruit on a federal task force trained to go after these powered-up criminals... -
Partners - Book One by Melissa Good
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter a massive volcanic eruption puts earth into nuclear winter, the planet is cloaked in clouds and no sun penetrates. Seas cover most of the land areas except high elevations which exist as islands where the remaining humans have learned to make do with much less. People survive on what they can take from the sea and with foodstuffs supplemented from an orbiting set of space stations...Categorized as:
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Targeted by Susan Hayes
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAlliance Commanders Brandt Carver and Hawke Summers have a new mission. Take command of Space Station: Alpha X2, get it running smoothly again, and find out how the last station commander wound up murdered in the middle of a Krytos sanctuary... -
The Barony Bet by Kai Butler
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsA wager he can’t lose... Lord Deva lives a charmed life. As the son and heir of one of the Empire’s wealthiest lords, Deva’s biggest problem is protecting his younger siblings from their father’s wrath. But when Deva’s actions place him on the verge of disinheritance, his only hope is an insurmountable task... -
Betrayal by Rita Potter
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsBetrayal is the exciting conclusion to the As We Know It series.The survivors at Whitaker Estate are still reeling from the vicious attack on their community, which left three of their friends dead.When the mysterious newcomer Alaina Renato reveals there is a traitor in their midst, it threatens to tear the community apart... -
Crowded, Vol. 2: Glitter Dystopia by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEleven minutes into the future, Charlie Ellison is the subject of a million dollar crowdfunded REAPR campaign on her head. Low-rated DFEND bodyguard Vita is keeping her safe for 30 days from a desperate population looking to get rich quick with a gun and a dream... -
Burn by Nora Phoenix
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a world where it’s every man for himself, all they can do is hold on to each other… An MMM survival romance. The last book in an exciting trilogy! With soldiers next door, the situation has become dire for Austin, Mack, and Tan... -
The Romance Bet by Jae
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReporter Abby James prides herself on never having read a romance novel. She thinks they’re formulaic, shallow, easy-to-write drivel—until romance author Tamara Brennan challenges her to write one... -
绝处逢生 Thrive in Catastrophe by Jiao Tang Dong Gua, 焦糖冬瓜
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis story is about a rookie researcher, who was forcefully dragged away from his restful life, compelled into facing various killers and zombies, always having to risk his life at the brink of death, and finally becoming an advanced researcher that is acclaimed by all... -
Tina by Tracy St. John
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo be loved is all Tina ever wanted. She never dreamed her prayers would be answered by the enemy.Aspirant Tina Novak, living on Europa’s convent colony, has no place to call her own. First rejected by her father, now being sent away by Mother Superior, where can a young woman with no prospects go?The question is delayed by a Kalquorian invasion that takes the aspirants and nuns prisoner... -
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Imperfect Match by Jordan Castillo Price
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsA man whose future is assigned - A heart that yearns to be free. Lee Kennedy’s destiny is controlled by the Algorithm. It’s the reason he’s still in college, regardless of his good academic performance. He’s switched his major repeatedly and stalled on his Master’s thesis, but there’s only so much longer he can hold out. Because once he graduates, the Algorithm must be triggered... -
Volatile Memory by Seth Haddon
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is How You Lose the Time War meets Ex Machina: Seth Haddon's science fiction debut, Volatile Memory, is a sapphic sci-fi action adventure novella."A gorgeously tender exploration of human connection in a post-human universe... -
Crowded, Vol. 3: Cutting-Edge Desolation by Christopher Sebela, Triona Farrell
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFired and ditched by Charlie, Vita sets off in hot pursuit of her former client and some answers. But Charlie’s not alone. She’s hired a brand new bodyguard, Circe, unaware she’s a killer who has been stalking Charlie since her crowdfunded assassination campaign began... -
The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a queer sci-fi novel about an Earth refugee and a Mars politician who fake marry to save their reputations—and their planet.In the wake of environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London’s Royal Ballet, has become a refugee on Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars...Categorized as:
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Crowded, Vol. 1 by Christopher Sebela, Ro Stein
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsTen minutes in the future, the world runs on an economy of job shares and apps, while crowdfunding has evolved into Reapr: a platform for assassination that's trickled down from politicians, celebrities and CEOs to everyday life and all its petty resentments. A world where anyone with enough backers and the money they contribute can kill anyone else... -
Deus Ex Mechanic by Ryann Fletcher
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAlice is the best mechanic the corrupt Coalition regime has ever seen. When she’s kidnapped by an infamous vigilante space pirate named Violet, she has to make the hardest decision she’s ever made: escape back to the comfort of the Coalition, or risk everything to fight injustice?When Violet decided to ransack Coalition vessels, she never though she’d have to fight her feelings for Alice, too...Categorized as:
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Friday by Manna Francis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAnother short story in The Administration series. Warrick explains his relationship to a long-time friend, Cele... -
True North (Heart's Compass) by C.E. Kilgore
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsAn apocalyptic M/M Romance. Electricity is gone. Society is on its knees. The heart’s compass becomes the light in the darkness. Joshua has had enough of people. Especially those desperate, starving bastards who he’s certain ate his dog. When people decide to leave the university town of Lincoln, Nebraska and head south before winter sets in, Joshua heads north instead... -
Planet Noglion by Olivia Black
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsEric Wilson volunteered to leave Earth to get away from his homophobic family. The only way he'd ever be able to have a life and fall in love was for him to start over somewhere far away. From the start, Eric knew there was no guarantee which planet he would live on. But, he never expected to go to the desert planet of Noglion. Eric doesn't know much about the alien world... -
In Heaven or Earth by Amy Rae Durreson
When the crew of the Medical Explorer Juniper arrive at the space city of Caelestia, they are horrified to find it floating airless in space with thousands of its people dead. The only survivor is a cyborg gardener, Vairya, who has been left amnesiac and terrified, barely able to choke out a few words: “It could happen again...Categorized as:
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Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsChange or die: the only options available on the Durallium Company-owned planet GP. The planet's deadly virus had killed most of the original colonists -- and changed the rest irrevocably. Centuries after the colony had lost touch with the rest of humanity, the Company returned to exploit GP, and its forces found themselves fighting for their lives... -
So Many Ways to Sleep Badly by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth... -
Fully Severed by D.E. Chapman
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsLosing my mother and my three fathers broke something inside me and I don’t think that hole will ever be fixed. Watching them all wither away was the worst misery I’ve ever had to face. The very idea of staying home and facing my loss is enough to undo me completely.So instead, it’s time for me to leave home, leave what remains of my family and venture out into the unknown... -
Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsMycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer—a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away...Categorized as:
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As Long As It Lasted by Manna Francis
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsAnother short story in The Administration series.Takes place five years before Mind Fuck and stars Sara and Toreth... enough said... -
Hanger, Vol. 1 by Hirotaka Kisaragi
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a futuristic Neo-Tokyo, crime is rising rapidly in the wake of a new generation of super-drugs capable of enhancing the user's physical and mental abilities. Hajime Tsukomo is a new recruit on a federal task force trained to go after these powered-up criminals...
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