Speculative fiction

This tale of motherly love blends the page-turning urgency of The Girl in the Red Coat with the political force of Slumdog Millionaire to create a searing parable of a...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time; Glamour; Real Simple; Good Housekeeping; Marie Claire; Town & Country Nestled in New York’s Hudson Valley is a luxury...

In this powerful finale to the award-winning WORMWOOD trilogy, life in the newly independent city state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting... Mayor Jacques finds that debts incurred...

An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, by the Man Booker-winner Ben Okri.In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question....

NPR Book of the Year 2020A startling debut about class and race, Lakewood evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentation — part The Handmaid’s Tale, part The Immortal Life of...

A collection of award-winning hard science fiction short stories. A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories –...

Ken Liu's second collection of speculative fiction bestrides worlds real and ethereal.From the title story's fantastical inter-dimensional assassins to the steampunk dystopia of "Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard" burrowing...

Translated by Tiffany TsaoHappy Stories, Mostly is a playful, charged and tender collection of twelve stories – a blend of speculative fiction and dark absurdism, often drawing on Norman Erikson...

A biting science fiction satire of American racism, and one of the first works of AfrofuturismIt's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young...

Translated by Margaret MitsutaniYoshiro celebrated his hundredth birthday many years ago, but every morning before work he still goes running in the park with his rent-a-dog. He is one of...

StoriesFor readers of David Wong, Paul Beatty, and George Saunders, an electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories that create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism, capitalism, and...

Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to save their city at any cost. Stranger Things meets Jordan Peele in this utterly...

A teen infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home — or stay and help rebuild her community. A moving hopepunk story...

How much is your Face worth? Atwood meets Ishiguro in this domestic drama that reimagines race and class in a genetically engineered society fed by performative fame.Schuyler and Madeleine Burroughs...

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by...

In the dystopian world of Mafinga, Jasmin must contend with a dictator’s sorcerer to cleanse the socialist state of its deadly pollution. Mafinga's malevolent king dislikes books and, together with...

A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures and the uncanny.In his sharply crafted, unnerving first collection...

Five New Yorkers must band together to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by triple Hugo award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of...

From the record-breaking, four-time Hugo Award-winning N. K. Jemisin comes 'a glorious fantasy' (Neil Gaiman) — a story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City, in...

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WATER RUNS OUT? THE WORLD IS RUNNING OUT OF WATER. With supply in the Scottish cities drying up, Aida is forced back home to live with...

From the author of the modern classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and...

THE BUNKER IS DESIGNED TO KEEP THEM ALL SAFE.In the end, very few people made it to the bunker. Now they wait there for the outside world to heal. Wolfe...

Longlisted for the 2022 Women's Prize for FictionA sensual meditation on the nature of love and addiction, this dazzling and incisive novel satirises postcolonial society and celebrates oddness.Dawn breaks across...