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A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist. A 2021 Locus Award Finalist. A 2020 ALA Booklist Top 10 SF/F Pick. A Booklist Editor's Choice Pick. Book Riot's Best Books of 2020 So Far. Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR, NYPL, Booklist, Bustle, and Den of Geek. In Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity. "That girl's got more wrong notions than a barn owl's got mean looks." Esther is a stowaway.

One of Time Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024, and Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction of 2024. "Chung builds out her stories with imagination, absurdity and a dry sense of humor, all applied with X-Acto knife precision." — Alexandra Kleeman, The New York Times Book Review. From the acclaimed author and translator of the National Book Award Finalist, Cursed Bunny, a fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears — and deepest desires.

A thrilling queer debut novel set several decades in the future and following an unforgettable cast of characters as they become swept up into a strange and exclusive new society. The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all.

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it—how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens? Winner of the 2024 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, shortlisted for the 2025 Pacific Northwest Book Award. This third perspective on myself is disconcerting. The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife.

La ville minière de River Meadows est l'une des seules au monde à produire du minerai fantôme, une nouvelle source d'énergie valant vingt-huit fois son poids en or. Mais l'extraction de la matière est aussi liée à des glissements dans le temps et l'espace qui rendent le secteur inhabitable. Après l'évacuation de la ville, toute la région est bouclée.

In this #1 national bestseller, "master storyteller" (Houston Chronicle) Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, tells the tale of the contestants of a grueling walking competition where there can only be one winner--the one that survives. In the near future, when America has become a police state, one hundred boys are selected to enter an annual contest where the winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life. Among them is sixteen-year-old Ray Garraty, and he knows the rules--keep a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping.

The year is 2120, and Nikos Wulf is at the top of his game. Within Winnipeg’s sublevels, he is the undisputed king of bounty hunters, working for the elite Bounty Commission Eco-Terror Taskforce. The job: defend the ecological infrastructure holding back climate collapse. But when a series of bounties go wrong, Nikos finds himself on the trail of a troubling new player among the city’s anti-establishment. Duty bound to protect the people, Nikos must risk it all to unearth an insidious enemy bent on destroying everything he’s ever known.

National Bestseller. A New York Times Notable Book. Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, Kirkus Reviews, Esquire, Electric Literature, Scientific American, and more. "One of the most pleasurable, inventive reads of the year... fiendishly, deliciously fun." - San Francisco Chronicle.

Characters typically absent from mainstream fiction take centre stage in this action packed story, bringing their fabulous complexity to the front-lines. After the economic crises of the 2020s, a corner of Europe known only as the State has become a monoculture of gender, sexuality, ability and race. Forced to leave their home, Ash and Pinar, elder leaders of the Resistance, have made a new, quieter life in the forest. But nothing lasts forever. These best friends answer the calls of the past - and the future - to rejoin their community and face their oppressors head on.

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature.