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The Hugo Awards (Through 2023)
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Nettle & Bone
by T. Kingfisher
To save her sister and topple a throne, Marra is offered the tools she needs if she completes three seemingly impossible tasks with the help of a disgraced ex-knight, a reluctant fairy godmother, and an enigmatic gravewitch and her fowl familiar.
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Where the Drowned Girls Go
by Seanan McGuire
When Cora decides she needs a different direction, a different fate, a different prophecy, Eleanor West transfers her to another school where things are run very differently—and not all doors are welcoming.
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A Desolation Called Peace
by Arkady Martine
A space-opera sequel to the Hugo Award-winning A Memory Called Empire finds a desperate Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus attempting diplomacy with the mysterious and hostile alien armada on the edge of Teixcalaanli space.
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built
by Becky Chambers
Centuries after disappearing into the wilderness en masse, the sentient robots of Panga return to visit with a tea monk and answer their burning question,“What do people need?” in the first novel of a new series.
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Network Effect
by Martha Wells
When Murderbot's human associates are captured and need its help, it must choose between inertia and drastic action, in this first, full-length standalone novel about a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction.
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The Empress of Salt and Fortune
by Nghi Vo
With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama, Nghi Vo's The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about empire, storytelling, and the anger of women.
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This is How You Lose the Time War
by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and soon fall in love.
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LaGuardia: A Very Modern Story of Immigration
by Nnedi Okorafor
In an alternate world where aliens have integrated with society, pregnant Nigerian-American doctor Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka has just smuggled an illegal alien plant named Letme Live through LaGuardia International and Interstellar Airport ... and that's not the only thing she's hiding. She and Letme become part of a community of human and alien immigrants; but as their crusade for equality continues and the birth of her child nears, Future -- and her entire world -- begins to change.
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A Memory Called Empire
by Arkady Martine
Taking over for an ambassador who died a suspicious death, Mahit Dzmare investigates the potential murder while navigating the alien culture of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire, which is hiding a technological secret that could impact the universe.
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The Calculating Stars
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Mary Robinette Kowal
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process.
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Artificial Condition
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Martha Wells
A sentient robot with only vague memories of the massacre it committed that gave it the name “Murderbot” teams up with a Research Transport Vessel to find out what happened, in the second novel of the series following All Systems Red.
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Monstress Volume Three
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Marjorie M Liu
Collecting issues 13-18 of the Hugo- and British Fantasy Award-winning series, a latest compilation finds Maika attempting to make some friends when her elite training does not fully prepare her for life-threatening challenges.
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Children of Blood and Bone
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Tomi Adeyemi
Coming of age in a land where her magi mother was killed by the zealous king's guards along with other former wielders of magic, Zélie embarks on a journey alongside her brother and a fugitive princess to restore her people's magical abilities.
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The Stone Sky
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N. K Jemisin
A conclusion to the Hugo Award-winning, post-apocalyptic trilogy that began with The Fifth Season reveals how the powers and agendas of two women determine the fate of humankind in the wake of a returning Moon.
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All Systems Red
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Martha Wells
A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid -- a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as "Murderbot."
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Monstress Volume Two
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Marjorie M Liu
Maika, Kippa and Ren journey to Thyria in search of answers to the past ... and discover a new, terrible threat. Collects Monstress #7-12.
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The Obelisk Gate
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N. K Jemisin
The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it would seal the fate of the Stillness forever. Far away, her daughter Nassun is growing in power - and her choices will break the world.
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Every Heart a Doorway
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Seanan McGuire
"Sent away to a home for children who have tumbled into fantastical other worlds and are looking for ways to return, Nancy triggers dark changes among her fellow schoolmates and resolves to expose the truth when a child dies under suspicious magical circumstances. By the best-selling author of the "InCryptid" series.
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The Fifth Season
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N. K Jemisin
A first entry in a trilogy by the award-winning author of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms finds the sole continent of the Earth threatened by murder, betrayal, a super-volcano and overlords who use the planet's power as a weapon.
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Binti
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Nnedi Okorafor
When Binti is offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy, she must rely on the gifts of her people and the wisdom found within the school.
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The Sandman : Overture
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Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman returns to author a new entry in his beloved series, in a deluxe edition that includes cameos from such fan-favorite characters as The Corinthian, Merv Pumpkinhead and, of course, the Dream King's siblings: Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny.
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The Three-Body Problem
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Cixin Liu
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project's signal is received by an alien civilization, which plans to invade Earth, while on Earth different camps start forming to either welcome the superior beings or to fight against the invasion.
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Ancillary Justice
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Ann Leckie
Now isolated in a single frail human body, Breq, an artificial intelligence that used to control a massive starship and its crew of soldiers, tries to adjust to her new humanity while seeking vengeance and answers to her questions.
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Saga
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Brian K Vaughan
When two soldiers from opposite sides of a never-ending galactic war fall in love, they risk everything to raise their child in a dangerous world.
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Redshirts
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John Scalzi
Enjoying his assignment with the Xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose. By the award-winning author of Old Man's War.
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Among Others
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Jo Walton
Seeking refuge in fantasy worlds under the shadow of her mother, who dabbles in magic, Mori Phelps is forced to confront her mother in a tragic battle and gains unwanted attention when she attempts to perform spells herself.
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Blackout
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Connie Willis
Stranded in the past during World War II, three researchers from the future investigate period behavior and seek each other out in a shared effort to return to their own time. By the multiple Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of The Doomsday Book.
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All Clear
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Connie Willis
A follow-up to Blackout finds its time-traveling protagonists landing during the Blitz of England in World War II. By the Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Nebula Award- and Hugo Award-winning author of The Doomsday Book.
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The Windup Girl
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Paolo Bacigalupi
Living in a future where food is scarce, Anderson Lake tries to find ways to exploit this need, as he comes into conflict with Jaidee, an official of the Environmental Ministry, and encounters Emiko, a engineered windup girl who has been discarded by hercreator.
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The city & the city
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China Miéville
Inspector Tyador Borlú must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in the city of Besźel.
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The Graveyard Book
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Neil Gaiman
Raised since he was a baby by ghosts, werewolves, and other residents of the cemetery in which he has always resided, Bod wonders how he will manage to survive amongst the living with only the lessons he has learned from the dead.
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The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel
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Michael Chabon
An alternate historical work based on a premise that Alaska became the Jewish homeland after World War II finds detective Meyer Landsman investigating a heroin-addicted chess prodigy's murder, a case with ties to an extremist Orthodox sect.
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Rainbows End
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Vernor Vinge
In a near-future western civilization that is threatened by corruptive practices within its technologically advanced information networks, a recovered Alzheimer's victim, his military son and daughter-in-law, and his middle school-age granddaughter are caught up in a dangerous maelstrom beyond their worst imaginings. By the Hugo Award-winning author of A Deepness in the Sky.
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