Science fiction 2020
Ancestral Night A Boy and His Dog at the End by Elizabeth Bear of the World Two salvage operators searching through by Charlie Fletcher lost human and alien spaceships make a When a beloved family dog is stolen, her boy shocking discovery about a species long owner sets out on a life-changing journey believed to be dead. By a Hugo Award- through the ruins of a dystopian world to winning author. bring her back.
Broken Stars: Contemporary The City in the Middle of the Chinese Science Fiction in Night Translation by Charlie Jane Anders by Ken Liu A reluctant revolutionary survives exile by Collected, translated, and edited, an forging an unusual, world-changing bond anthology of Chinese science fiction with a family of creatures that live outside features stories from the Hugo Award- the human confines of their dying planet. winning author Cixin Liu and many others.
The Dreamers Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang by Karen Thompson Walker A long-awaited latest collection by the The best-selling author of The Age of Arrival-inspiring author of "The Story of Your Miracles presents the story of a student at an Life" explores revelatory ideas and second isolated Southern California college town chances in such tales as, "In the Merchant who witnesses a strange sleeping illness and the Alchemist's Gate," "Exhalation" and that subjects patients to life-altering, "The Lifecycle of Software Objects." heightened dreams.
Here and Now and Then If, Then by Kate Hope Day by Mike Chen Four neighbors in a quiet Oregon mountain Stranded for 18 years since the 1990s, time- community find their lives upended when traveling agent Kin Stewart, suffering from they begin to experience disturbing visions memory loss, has started a new life, but of an alternate reality, before a natural when rescuers from the future finally arrive, disaster reveals an astonishing town secret. he must choose between his current family and the one he left behind.
Knight The Lightest Object in the by Timothy Zahn Universe Caught in a power war between the alien by Kimi Eisele factions that kidnapped her and made her a In a powerless world after a global economic Sibyl communicator, Nicole navigates collapse, an East Coast man desperate to dangerous adversaries to seize control of reunite with the woman he loves encounters her abductors' ship. a menagerie of lost souls, opportunists and rebuilders on a cross-country journey. Science fiction 2020
The Luminous Dead Machines Like Me by Caitlin Starling by Ian McEwan Gyre Price is a caver on a mining world, The National Book Critics Circle Award- whose quest to raise enough money to winning author of Atonement presents the escape her hardscrabble planet leads her to story of two lovers in an alternative 1980s take a dangerous job. Now, she begins to London who construct a perfect synthetic doubt her handler's motivations. human before finding themselves in a morally complex love triangle.
Permafrost Polaris Rising by Alastair Reynolds by Jessie Mihalik Set in 2080, a group of great thinkers gather After trying to escape an arranged marriage, on the edge of the Arctic Circle to gamble the Ada von Hasenberg is caught and thrown future of humanity by altering the past. into prison onboard a spaceship with a dangerous fugitive, but she realizes she must make an ally of the outlaw if she wants to avoid any return to her home planet.
Recursion The Rosewater Insurrection by Blake Crouch by Tade Thompson Assigned to the case of a suicide victim who Amidst a secret invasion, government agent claimed her son's existence had been Aminat must capture a woman who is the erased, investigator Barry Sutton follows key to the survival of the human race but her leads to the outbreak of a memory-altering mission is endangered by the Mayor of disease and the technological innovations of Rosewater and the emergence of an old a controversial neuroscientist. enemy of Wormwood.
Suspicious Minds This is How You Lose the by Gwenda Bond Time War A prequel to the hit Netflix series Stranger by Amal El-Mohtar Things explores several of the show's Two time-traveling agents from warring mysteries and includes details about futures, working their way through the past, Eleven's mother and her time as a test begin to exchange letters and soon fall in subject in the MKUltra program. love, even though the discovery of their bond could mean death for each of them.
Tiamat's Wrath To Be Taught, If Fortunate by James S. A. Corey by Becky Chambers While Elvi Okoye weighs the consequences While on a mission to ecologically survey of uncovering the truth about weapons tied four habitable worlds, Ariadne O’Neill and a to an ancient genocide, Teresa Duarte team of explorers, shifting through space navigates secrets and dangerous intrigues and time, discover that the culture back on to fulfill her father's godlike ambition. Earth has been transformed and must make a difficult decision.
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