Going Postal |
Terry Pratchett |
Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork’s ailing postal service back on its feet. |
Caliban’s War |
James S. A. Corey |
In the vast wilderness of space, James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante have been keeping the peace for the Outer Planets Alliance. |
Extraterrestrial |
Avi Loeb |
Harvard’s top astronomer lays out his controversial theory that our solar system was recently visited by advanced alien technology from a distant star. |
Abaddon’s Gate |
James S. A. Corey |
For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity’s great frontier. |
All Systems Red |
Martha Wells |
In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. |
Death on the Nile |
Agatha Christie |
The tranquility of a cruise along the Nile was shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway had been shot through the head |
Artificial Condition |
Martha Wells |
It has a dark past–one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot.” But it has only vague memories of the massacre, it wants to know more. |
Rogue Protocol |
Martha Wells |
SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering |
Exit Strategy |
Martha Wells |
Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? |
All Secure: One Delta Force Operator’s Fight From the Battlefield to the Homefront |
Tom Satterly, Steve Jackson |
As a senior non-commissioned officer of Delta Force, the most elite and secretive special operations unit in the U.S. military, Command Sergeant Major Tom Satterly fought some of this country’s most fearsome enemies. |
Network Effect |
Martha Wells |
When Murderbot’s human associates (not friends, never friends) are captured and another not-friend from its past requires urgent assistance, Murderbot must choose between inertia and drastic action. |
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel |
James McBride |
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. |
Wool: The Silo Saga, Book 1 |
Hugh Howey |
The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo. |
Cibola Burn: The Expanse, Book 4 |
James S. A. Corey |
Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos. |
This is How They Tell Me the World Ends |
Nicole Perlroth |
Cautionary tale of cyber weapons, underground markets, state sanctioned cyber-attacks, and the West’s vulnerability in an increasingly interconnected digital world |
Red Sky Morning |
Jack Carr |
A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbered. A Chinese submarine has gone rogue and is navigating towards the continental United States |
Paradise Sky |
Joe R. Lansdale |
A rollicking novel about Nat Love, an African-American cowboy with a famous nickname: Deadwood Dick |
Nemesis Games: The Expanse, Book 5 |
James S. A. Corey |
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. |
Heaven’s River |
Dennis E. Taylor |
Civil war looms in the Bobiverse |
The Cuckoo’s Egg |
Cliff Stoll |
Before the Internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive U.S. citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies |