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Infomocracy: A Novel

Malka Older - Tor
Format: Print book

It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority...
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The Fifth Season

N. K. Jemisin - Orbit
Format: Book

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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The Sunlight Pilgrims: A Novel

Jenni Fagan - Hogarth
Format: Print book

The stunning new novel from the highly-acclaimed author of The PanopticonIt's November of 2020, and the world is freezing over. Each day colder than the last. There's snow in Israel, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is expected to drift...
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The Girl With All the Gifts

M.R. Carey - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING.Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into...
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Brilliance

Marcus Sakey - Thomas & Mercer
Format: Paperback

In Wyoming, a little girl reads people's darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They're called "brilliants,"...
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California: A Novel

Edan Lepucki - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

"In her arresting debut novel, Edan Lepucki conjures a lush, intricate, deeply disturbing vision of the future, then masterfully exploits its dramatic possibilities." ---Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon SquadThe world Cal and Frida have always known is gone,...
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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood
Format: Hardcover

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household...
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