Near Future Science Fiction Books

What if an aging, unsuccessful Minnesota author of history books with names like Old von Steuben Had a Farm: The German-American Settlement of the Midwest decided he could write a book every bit as vapid and ridiculous as the books that sold four...

A dazzling new series from the beloved Australian bestselling author of White Tiger, Kylie Chan.'Clever and timely, Minds of Sand and Light is an intriguing exploration of AI that manages to be both optimistic and terrifying in the possibilities it...

From the New York Times bestselling author of SEVENEVES‘One of the great novels of our time’ Wall Street Journal ‘Wonderful’ Guardian ‘Staggering’ New York Times ‘Captivating’ Washington Post ‘Cutting-edge’ Booklist ‘Mind-blowing’ Slate What if we...

What happened one night in 2739 when seven million LaPortans met a fiery death? Lena Sage is tasked with restoring the illustrious name of LaPorte Industries after this global calamity called the Winter Purge. She must lead while ignoring her nagging...

Bodhi has known since he was five that his daily treatments with the erythropoietin pump wouldn't work forever. He is dying. He knows it. His mother, Harper, knows it. Even his overly-friendly tries-to-hard "father", Aiden, the reclusive...

When an old rock hound stumbles across what appears to be the wreckage of a mysterious capsule or cargo pod in Death Valley at the height of the Cold War, a dozen government agencies scramble to unravel its secrets. Is it from a Soviet spy operation or...

Can a robot fall in love? In the bustling streets of New York City, sometime in the far future, robots like JoJo have taken on everyday jobs. Driving a taxi around NYC is all in a day’s work for JoJo, but when he meets the mysterious Gilda, it’s love at...

Hugo Award–nominated author Stina Leicht has created a “thoroughly enjoyable” (NPR) take on space opera for fans of The Mandalorian and Cowboy Bebop in this high-stakes adventure.Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has been largely...

In a future where reality has been augmented and biology itself has been hacked, the world’s food supply is genetically modified, superior, and vulnerable. When gene mapper Hayashida discovers that his custom rice plant has experienced a dysgenic...

2022 QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 30TH ANNUAL HAMILTON LITERARY FICTION AWARDA bold and absurd new take on the dystopian plague novel, where people are treated like IKEA furnitureDistraught and hopeless, an...

Nominated for 2024 Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association's Elgin Award One of the Globe 100's Best Books of 2023 The follow-up to Guriel'sNYT New & NoteworthyForgotten Work is a mashup ofMoby-Dick, The Lord of the Rings, Byron, cyberpunk,...

In a near future Tokyo, every action-from blinking to sexual intercourse-is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees...Risen from the ashes of bankdeath, Amon Kenzaki, fallen Liquidator and Xenocyst survivor, arrives at the...

Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and Special Citation Winner A catastrophic solar flare reshapes our world order as we know it in an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating cyberattacks that paralyze all communication. With America...

In a near future Tokyo, every action-from blinking to sexual intercourse-is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees. A BodyBank computer system implanted in each citizen records their movements from moment to moment, and...

A new technology has emerged, promising a perfect society, and resisters are not long for this world . . .Ahead, not too many years from now, everyone has been linked to a network of government-mandated brain implants.The Interfacehas become a way of...

An award-winning cyberpunk novel set in mid-21st century Cuba, Freeway: La Movie crosses the absurdity of American pop culture with the deep, fragmented unease of Cuban-US relations.A novel-in-stories set in mid-twenty-first century dystopian Havana,...

The child as mother, the mother as monster, the monster as hero: this shape-shifting story of nourishment, nurture, and parturition is a rare feminist work of speculative fiction and received the prestigious Seiun (Nebula) Award in 1991. Mariko hara's...