LibraryAware Science fiction / JULY/AUG

Reproduction : a novel
by Louisa Hall

Drawing on both Mary Shelley's and her own painful experiences of pregnancy and childbirth, as well as the current state of the world, a novelist starts writing a contemporary Frankenstein based on the story of an old friend who mysteriously reappears in her life.

Arch-conspirator
by Veronica Roth

Feeling uncontrollable rage toward her militant uncle Kreon who is rising to claim her father's vacant throne, Antigone and her siblings, welcomed into his mansion, become captives as well as guests, but her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable—and neither is he.

The scourge between stars
by Ness Brown

Acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jaclyn Albright, tasked with keeping the last of humanity alive, reaches her breaking point when a new threat emerges, picking off crew members in a gruesome, bloody fashion and must hunt down this intruder to make it back to their solar system alive..

Code 6 : a novel
by James Grippando

A screenwriter working on a script about the dark side of Big Data is pulled into a far-reaching conspiracy and coverup after a childhood friend is kidnapped while under investigation by the Justice Department.

Everything the light touches : a novel
by Janice Pariat

A young woman in modern India seeks solace and renewal with indigenous communities and is strangely connected to a Edwardian scientist who left Cambridge for the sacred Himalayan forests and a botanist who explored Lapland in 1732.

The circus train
by Amita Parikh

In 1938, Lena Papadopoulos, the wheelchair-bound daughter of an extraordinary headlining illusionist, must confront her doubts and dare to believe in the impossible—herself—when she is separated from everything she knows during World War II.

The passenger
by Cormac McCarthy

In 1980 Pass Christian, Mississippi, salvage diver Bobby Western, after a plane crash, discovers the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box and the tenth passenger are missing, submerging him in a conspiracy beyond his understanding as he is shadowed in body and spirit by the past and present. (action & adventure).

Death of the author : a novel
by Nnedi Okorafor

After being fired and facing yet another novel rejection, aspiring author Zelu writes a futuristic epic about AI and robots, unknowingly setting herself on a path to literary stardom that could change the future of humanity.

The bone clocks : a novel
by David Mitchell

Interweaves six narratives spanning the period between 1984 and the 2030s to chronicle a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes who would take them down. By the award-winning author of Cloud Atlas.

The ministry for the future
by Kim Stanley Robinson

Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts of living creatures both past and present, this brilliant novel is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written.