Allow us to set the scene for you: it’s a chilly fall evening, the window is cracked letting in the crisp evening air; your coffee just finished brewing, you’ve poured yourself a big cup and added a splash of your favorite seasonal creamer. You light a candle, grab your softest blanket, and now it’s time to pick a book from the shelf and get lost in it. But what’s this? There’s nothing on your bookshelf but biographies and true crime, and frankly, you’re a science fiction lover. To avoid this heartbreak, we recommend keeping a healthy stack of TBR books in your favorite genre near you at all times. Okay, maybe not at ALL times, but what we’re getting at is if you love science fiction, here are some titles we couldn’t put down.
Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles
“Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of change threatens to leave the community behind.” (buy it here)
Future Feeling by Joss Lake
“An embittered dog walker obsessed with a social media influencer inadvertently puts a curse on a young man—and must adventure into a mysterious dimension in order to save him—in this wildly inventive, delightfully subversive, genre-nonconforming debut novel about illusion, magic, technology, kinship, and the emergent future. […] Magnificently imagined, linguistically dazzling, and riotously fun, Future Feeling presents an alternate future in which advanced technology still can’t replace human connection but may give the trans community new ways to care for its own.” (buy it here)
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
“During a routine survey mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. At first, she’s delighted, but elation turns to terror when the ancient dust around her begins to move. As war erupts among the stars, Kira is launched into a galaxy-spanning odyssey of discovery and transformation. First contact isn’t at all what she imagined, and events push her to the very limits of what it means to be human. While Kira faces her own horrors, Earth and its colonies stand on the brink of annihilation. Now, Kira might be humanity’s greatest and final hope.” (buy it here)
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
“Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission – and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. Part scientific mystery, part dazzling interstellar journey, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian – while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.” (buy it here)
