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Fantasy and Science Fiction August 2025 |
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The Third Rule of Time Travel
by Philip Fracassi
Scientist Beth Darlow has done the impossible and unlocked the secrets of time travel. Her device allows human consciousness to revisit any moment in their lifetime, but only to observe. However, as Beth's life begins to unravel, she realizes that even just looking can have consequences. This tightly plotted and character-driven science fiction thriller will appeal to fans of Recursion by Blake Crouch and Dissolution by Nicholas Binge.
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The Dream Hotel : a Novel
by Laila Lalami
After a dream-analysis algorithm predicts that she will harm her husband, Sara is detained in a facility with similarly accused women, where she navigates shifting rules until a new arrival leads her to confront the forces controlling her fate.
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The Paradox Paradox
by Daniel Hardcastle
The Paradox Paradox is a dark sci-fi comedy spanning the distant future and recent past. Obsessed with a chilling time-warped message, Osheen Shupple builds a time machine to uncover its origins—teaming up with a chaotic crew: an archaeologist serving twenty-eight life sentences, a veterinarian with an identity crisis and no original body parts, a cheating university student, and a famous but very, very dead starship captain.
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Dark Diamond
by Neal Asher
Captain Blite is marked for death—but the dark diamond he carries rewinds time whenever he dies, forcing him to relive each harrowing event until he survives. These time flashes reveal glimpses of possible futures, drawing the attention of Polity agents and the crab-like Prador. Pursued across space and time, Blite must unravel the dark diamond’s secrets before it destroys him.
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The Way
by Cary Groner
It's 2048, and the world has been ravaged by a lethal virus where only the young have survived. Will Collins, the last member of a Buddhist retreat in Colorado, receives a mysterious summons: travel to the West Coast to deliver a cure. With opposing forces closing in, Will must rely on a raven, a cat, and a teenage girl to survive his trek. For fans of: dystopian fiction with an animal twist, such as the Hollow Kingdom series by Kira Jane Buxton.
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Deep Black
by Miles Cameron
Marca Nbaro has always longed to serve aboard the Greatships—monumental spacecraft that crisscross human-occupied space, ferrying goods between orbital hubs. These ships are thriving, city-sized communities and the backbone of interstellar civilization.
Now part of a Greatship crew, Nbaro finds herself in the heart of a growing crisis. An unknown enemy is sabotaging or targeting these vital trade arteries, and the consequences could cripple humanity’s economic lifeline. The trade of xenoglas, a mysterious substance obtained from an alien race at Tradepoint, is especially at risk.
Together with her crewmates—friends bound by shared hardship and trust—Nbaro is on the brink of identifying the elusive threat. But time is thinning, alliances are strained, and their margin for error is vanishing. The fate of multiple worlds could hang in the balance.
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The First Murder on Mars
by Sam Wilson
This is the story of the first human being born on Mars: Rose Fuller. She saw a better future than the one we were given and gave her life to build it.It's a story about Dylan Ward, a woman who grew up in the frontier of human existence and misses it every single day.It's a story about a man who went missing, and the man who wants to find out what he knew.It's a story about what makes us human - and how we might live once we leave our home. This is the story of the first murder on Mars.
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Somewhat Lost
by Remi Dewitt
Debbie wakes up to find four aliens looking down at her. Oh my God, she's been abducted by aliens, and they have very big needles. But before they can use them, a woman rescues her. The rescuer doesn't remember who she is because the aliens have memory-blocked her, so Debbie names her Ellen because she's good at kicking alien ass. Debbie and Ellen set off across the universe to find answers to their questions: Who is Ellen? Where does she come from? Why is she aboard this alien ship? And why are these aliens abducting people from Earth?
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