Best Recent Science Fiction Novels - April 2024

The Wild Robot

"Wild Robot is an excellent choice for young readers looking for engaging early middle grade novels. A discarded robot finds love and a sense of belonging on an island of animals in Peter Brown's well-crafted story. Profound moments and warm humor make this a winner." - Seira Wilson, Amazon EditorWall-E meets Hatchet in this New York Times bestselling illustrated middle grade novel from Caldecott Honor winner Peter BrownCan a robot survive in the wilderness? When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she g... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0316381993
• ASIN: 0316381993
• ISBN: 0316381993
• Brand: Peter Brown
• Manufacturer: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past Book 1)

"Wildly imaginative, really interesting." —President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogyThe Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome t... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00IQO403K
• ASIN: B00IQO403K
• Manufacturer: Tor Books

A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet)

• ASIN: 0312367546
• ASIN: 0312367546
• ISBN: 0312367546
• Brand: Square Fish
• Manufacturer: Square Fish

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee was one of millions trapped by a secretive and brutal communist regime. Her home on the border with China gave her some exposure to the world beyond the confines of the Hermit Kingdom and, as the famine of the 1990s struck, she began to wonder, question and to realise that she had been brainwashed her ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00JD3ZL9U
• ASIN: B00JD3ZL9U
• Brand: William Collins
• Manufacturer: William Collins

The Legend of Zelda: Art & Artifacts

Make sure to check out the other installments in this unparalleled collection of historical information on The Legend of Zelda franchise with the New York Times best selling The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia and The Legend of Zelda: Encyclopedia. Also look for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild — Creating a Champion for an indepth look at the art, lore, and making of the best selling video game! The Legend of Zelda™: Art and Artifacts contains over four hundred pages of fully realized illustrations from the entire thirty-year history of The Legend of Zelda™ including a... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1506703356
• ASIN: 1506703356
• ISBN: 1506703356
• Brand: Dark Horse Books
• Manufacturer: Dark Horse Books

11-22-63: A Novel

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King - who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer - takes listeners on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a 35-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event tha... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0064HJNQK
• ASIN: B0064HJNQK
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio

Fences

From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize.Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0452264014
• ASIN: 0452264014
• ISBN: 0452264014
• Brand: Plume
• Manufacturer: Plume

Immortal in Death (In Death, Book 3)

In the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series, Lieutenant Eve Dallas uncovers a world where technology can create beauty and youth, but passion and greed can destroy them...She was one of the most sought after women in the world. A top model who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted—even another woman’s man. And now she was dead, the victim of a brutal murder. Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas put her life on the line to take the case when suspicion fell on her best friend, the other woman in the fatal love triangle. Beneath the façade of glamour, Eve found th... [Read More]

• ASIN: B000OCXJPM
• ASIN: B000OCXJPM
• Manufacturer: Berkley

In the Valley of the Sun: A Novel

A finalist for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.Deftly written and utterly addictive, this Western literary horror debut will find a home with fans of authors like Joe Hill, Cormac McCarthy, and Anne Rice.One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster.Haunted by his past, Travis Stillwell spends his nights searching out women in West Texas honky-tonks. What he does with them doesn’t make him proud, just quiets the demons for a little while. But after Travis crosses paths one night with a mysterious pale-skinned girl, he wakes weak and bloodied in his cabover c... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01N1XNTF7
• ASIN: B01N1XNTF7
• Manufacturer: Skyhorse

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

• ASIN: B003JMFKVK
• ASIN: B003JMFKVK
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Children of Blood and Bone

Winner of the 2019 Audie Award for Audiobook of the year. This program is narrated by acclaimed reader Bahni Turpin, whose past work includes The Hate U Give and The Underground Railroad In Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi conjures a stunning world of dark magic and danger in her West African-inspired fantasy debut. They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise.  Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls.  But everything changed... [Read More]

• ASIN: B075NR7HC3
• ASIN: B075NR7HC3
• Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400032806
• ASIN: 1400032806
• ISBN: 1400032806
• Brand: Anchor Books
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Life as We Knew It

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald’s still would be open.High school sophomore Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic. How can her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis are wiping out the coasts, earthquakes are rocking the continents, and volcanic ash is blocking out the sun? As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of the... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0152061541
• UPC: 884784981829
• ASIN: 0152061541
• ISBN: 9780152061548
• Brand: Graphia
• Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Times} p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'} The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery.Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wea... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1455540013
• ASIN: 1455540013
• ISBN: 1455540013
• Brand: Grand Central Publishing
• Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing

The Whispering Room: A Jane Hawk Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Jane Hawk—fiction’s most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine—continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner. “No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this.” These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun—just before she takes her own life, and many others’, in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But J... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0345546822
• ASIN: 0345546822
• ISBN: 0345546822
• Manufacturer: Bantam

Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels - eBook

From one of the best-known editors in modern science fiction, this lively and authoritative guide will appeal to both newcomers and connoisseurs of the genre alike. Informative and readable, David Pringle's choices focus on landmark

• UPC: 733794071
• Rating: 5.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection

The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories, with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science

• UPC: 415598537

The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition - eBook

This seventh volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Yoon Ha Lee,

• UPC: 228674886
• Rating: 4.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection - eBook

The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue

• UPC: 906416816
• Rating: 1.5

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection - eBook

The twenty-three stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our being, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are

• UPC: 728072562
• Rating: 3.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifth Annual Collection - eBook

This new volume of The Year's Best Science Fiction carries on the proud tradition, with stories by Pat Murphy, Bruce McAllister, Bruce Sterling, Kate Wilhelm, Alexander Jablokov, Walter Job Williams, Paul J. McAuley, Neal Barrett,

• UPC: 296887071
• Rating: 3.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection - eBook

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a

• UPC: 923959838
• Rating: 4.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection - eBook

The past through tomorrow are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers, including:William Barton

• UPC: 552005402
• Rating: 4.0

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection - eBook

The thirty-two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are

• UPC: 927436284
• Rating: 4.5

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Tenth Annual Collection - eBook

With stories about consciousness and conscience, about heroes and horrors, this volume offers up two dozen dazzling stories from some of science fiction's greatest writers, including: Neal Barret, Jr., Terry Bisson, Pat Cadigan, Arthur C.

• UPC: 596709843
• Rating: 4.0