Near Future Science Fiction Books

A dazzling new series from the beloved Australian bestselling author of White Tiger, Kylie Chan.'Clever and timely, Minds of Sand and Light is an intriguing exploration of AI that manages to be both optimistic and terrifying in the possibilities it...

From the New York Times bestselling author of SEVENEVES‘One of the great novels of our time’ Wall Street Journal ‘Wonderful’ Guardian ‘Staggering’ New York Times ‘Captivating’ Washington Post ‘Cutting-edge’ Booklist ‘Mind-blowing’ Slate What if we...

Can a robot fall in love? In the bustling streets of New York City, sometime in the far future, robots like JoJo have taken on everyday jobs. Driving a taxi around NYC is all in a day’s work for JoJo, but when he meets the mysterious Gilda, it’s love at...

Hugo Award–nominated author Stina Leicht has created a “thoroughly enjoyable” (NPR) take on space opera for fans of The Mandalorian and Cowboy Bebop in this high-stakes adventure.Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has been largely...

In a future where reality has been augmented and biology itself has been hacked, the world’s food supply is genetically modified, superior, and vulnerable. When gene mapper Hayashida discovers that his custom rice plant has experienced a dysgenic...

2022 QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 30TH ANNUAL HAMILTON LITERARY FICTION AWARDA bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furnitureDistraught and hopeless, an...

Nominated for 2024 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's Elgin Award One of the Globe 100's Best Books of 2023 The follow-up to Guriel'sNYT New & NoteworthyForgotten Work is a mashup ofMoby-Dick, The Lord of the Rings, Byron, cyberpunk,...

Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and Special Citation Winner A catastrophic solar flare reshapes our world order as we know it in an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating cyberattacks that paralyze all communication. With America...

A new technology has emerged, promising a perfect society, and resisters are not long for this world . . .Ahead, not too many years from now, everyone has been linked to a network of government-mandated brain implants.The Interfacehas become a way of...

An award-winning cyberpunk novel set in mid-21st century Cuba, Freeway: La Movie crosses the absurdity of American pop culture with the deep, fragmented unease of Cuban-US relations.A novel-in-stories set in mid-twenty-first century dystopian Havana,...

The child as mother, the mother as monster, the monster as hero: this shape-shifting story of nourishment, nurture, and parturition is a rare feminist work of speculative fiction and received the prestigious Seiun (Nebula) Award in 1991. Mariko hara's...

New York Times bestselling coauthors Sharon Moalem and Daniel Kraus's terrifying sci-fi horror thriller takes place in a future that is much nearer than you think. It is a world where scientific experimentation is exploited for commercial profit...