Lists and Suggestions
List: Science Fiction - Hidden Gems
The City in the Middle of the Night
Anders, Charlie Jane, author.
""If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams . . . And from there, it's e...
Brown Girl in the Ring
Hopkinson, Nalo.
When the rich and privileged leave the city behind, barricaded behind roadblocks, the people of the...
Feed
Grant, Mira.
"The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we had...
Rosewater
Thompson, Tade, author.
"Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious biodome,...
All Systems Red
Wells, Martha, author.
A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction advent...
Lagoon
Okorafor, Nnedi, author.
"A biologist, a famous rapper, and a rogue soldier become the honor guard and interpreter of h...
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Chambers, Becky, author.
"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patch...
Parable of the Talents
Butler, Octavia E., author.
Laura Olamina's daughter, Larkin, describes the broken and alienated world of 2032, as war rac...
Dark Orbit
Gilman, Carolyn, 1954- author.
"Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilizat...
The Left Hand of Darkness
Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018.
Le Guin's Hainish series begins with the assumption that centuries ago humanoids from the plan...
Cold Welcome
Moon, Elizabeth, author.
"Kylara Vatta is summoned back to the world of Slotter Key, the home planet of the Vatta empir...
Infomocracy
Older, Malka, 1977- author.
"It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engi...
Lightless
Higgins, C. A. (Caitlin A.)
"Serving aboard the Ananke, an experimental military spacecraft launched by the ruthless organ...
Alliance Rising
Cherryh, C. J., author.
"For years, the stations of the Hinder Stars, those old stations closest to Sol, have lagged b...
The Cold Between
Bonesteel, Elizabeth, author.
"Deep in the stars, a young officer and her lover are plunged into a murder mystery and a dead...
The Stars Are Legion
Hurley, Kameron, author.
"Set within a system of decaying world-ships traveling through deep space, this breakout novel...
Autonomous
Newitz, Annalee, 1969- author.
Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submari...
Chilling Effect
Valdes, Valerie, author.
Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for ...
Gideon the Ninth
Muir, Tamsyn, author.
Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cutthroat politics, and lesbian n...
The Tower and the Hive
McCaffrey, Anne, author.
Human agents infiltrate the Hivers, an aggressive alien race of insectoid species, to study their c...