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Speculative Fiction October 2025 |
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| Look for this in our Short Fiction section! Also available on Libby as a downloadable eBook.
Set during and after the events of Stephen King's highly acclaimed 1978 novel The Stand, this anthology collects new stories of human resilience after the apocalypse from authors like Poppy Z. Brite, Tananarive Due, Josh Malerman, and many more. Both a tribute to and an expansion of the original novel, fans of King's work will be delighted by the dedication on display from the contributors. |
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| Also available on Libby as a downloadable eBook.
Alessa Li has been forcibly enrolled at Hellebore Technical Institute, an elite academy for the dangerously powerful world-enders within its hallowed walls. On graduation day, Alessa is trapped in the library along with other students being forced to take part in the institute's grisly ritual: being devoured by the monstrous faculty. A harrowing and lore-rich tread into the darkest depth of dark academia fantasy, Khaw's latest is "a visceral symphony of body horror" (Booklist). |
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| Book #3 in the Midsolar Murders series.
Mallory Viridian's relative peace (and boredom) is disrupted when she boards a data ship from Earth carrying a boatload of mystery convention-goers -- as well as the entire Internet. With all of these converging chaotic elements, Mallory must solve the murder of her agent before time runs out. For fans of: fast-paced and snappy science fiction crime novels such as Malka Older's Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti series or Constance Fay's Uncharted Hearts series. |
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Also available on Libby as a downloadable eBook.
In a decaying Appalachian landscape where hives of parasites offer shelter in exchange for corpses, trans man Crane embraces the safety they offer—until an unexpected pregnancy with his volatile partner Levi sparks a horrifying descent that threatens to unravel his fragile existence in this brutal world. |
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ONLY available on Libby as a downloadable eBook!
Clio's mother Alex lost custody of Clio and her sisters when Alex wrote a book saying their house was possessed; after Alex's sudden death, the house passes to the sisters, and as the home makeover begins and Clio finally reads the book, the presence in the house becomes real and sinister.
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Also available on Libby as an eBook OR audiobook!
In a land where gods often kill each other to steal power and alliances break as quickly as they are forged, Matilda, the youngest goddess of her clan, must come of age sooner than most. |
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Also available on Libby as a downloadable eBook.
A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic—with very unexpected results—in a novel about family, identity and the power of love. |
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Speculative Fiction Book Club's Upcoming Reads:
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JOIN US on Tuesday, Oct 28, 2025 at 7PM at the library to discuss this book!
Introducing: Jaclyn Albright, acting captain of the starship Calypso, which carries the last remaining humans from their failed space colony to a long-abandoned Earth.
What happens: Jaclyn must deal with both the Calypso's mutinous crew and an extraterrestrial intruder stalking the ship's passengers.
For fans of: S.A. Barnes' Dead Silence or the 1979 space horror classic Alien. |
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JOIN US on Tuesday, Nov 25, 2025 at 7PM at the library to discuss this book!
The problem: Where Mallory Viridian goes, murder follows. And NOT because she's the killer.
The solution? Murder magnet Mallory enters self-imposed exile aboard Space Station Eternity, where she hopes that a relative lack of humans will be enough to prevent yet another death. (No such luck.)
Series alert: Station Eternity kicks off the Midsolar Murders series, which boasts the in-depth characterization and twisty plot of author Mur Lafferty's previous SF mystery, Six Wakes, but is lighter in tone. |
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Contact your librarian for more great books! |
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