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Speculative fiction encompasses works that don't neatly fall into science fiction or fantasy. It is broadly defined as any work of fiction containing supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements which can include genres ranging from sci-fi to horror. However, it will always contain an element of "what if the world was this way?" Think The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Perfect for the philosophical reader!
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New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
Nisi Shawl - Solaris
Format: Paperback
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Anthology of contemporary stories by emerging and seasoned writers of many races"There's nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns," proclaimed Octavia E. Butler. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many... |
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The Ghost Bride: A Novel
Yangsze Choo - William Morrow; First edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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One evening, my father asked me if I would like to become a ghost bride...Part 19th century novel, part magical journey to the Chinese world of the dead, Yangsze Choos debut novelThe Ghost Brideis a startlingly original historical fantasy infused with Chinese folklore, romantic intrigue,... |
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Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor - DAW
Format: Hardcover
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Read Nnedi Okorafor's posts on the Penguin Blog. An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of post- apocalyptic Africa. In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided... |
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Trail of Lightning
Rebecca Roanhorse - Saga Press
Format: Hardcover
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While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dintah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.Maggie Hoskie is a Dintah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer.... |
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The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin - Orbit
Format: Book
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Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, masquerading as an ordinary schoolteacher in a quiet small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their daughter. Mighty Sanze, the empire whose innovations have been civilization's bedrock... |
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WAR GIRLS
Tochi Onyebuchi - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover
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Two sisters are torn apart by war and must fight their way back to each other in a futuristic, Black Panther-inspired Nigeria.The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. In a war-torn... |
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.As a child, Kathy-now thirty-one years old-lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside... |
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1Q84
Haruki Murakami - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Paperback
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi drivers enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She... |
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More Happy Than Not
Adam Silvera - Recorded Books
Format: Audiobook
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Happiness shouldnt be this hard... When it first gets announced, the Leteo Institutes memory-alteration procedure seems too good to be true to Aaron Soto; miracle cure-alls dont tend to pop up in the Bronx projects. Aaron cant forget how hes grown up poor, how his friends all seem to shrug... |
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Mr. Fox
Helen Oyeyemi - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for FictionOne of Granta's Best Young British NovelistsFrom the prizewinning young writer of What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, coming February 2016, a brilliant and inventive story of love, lies, and inspiration.Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding,... |
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel
Charles Yu - Vintage
Format: eBook
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*This ebook includes photos, illustrations, and a bonus short story, which add to the ever-expanding world of Minor Universe 31. Photos and illustrations appear as hyperlinks in text. National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award winner Charles Yu delivers his debut novel, a razor-sharp, ridiculously... |
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The Bees: A Novel
Laline Paull - Ecco
Format: Book
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The Handmaid's Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death.Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues... |
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