Books on Display: Get Lost in a New World!
A great science fiction novel can take you on a journey; mess with your head, mess with your heart, make you feel good. No matter what kind of science fiction fan you are, you'll find something to add to your reading list here.
Get lost in a new world!
 
 

Black leopard, red wolf
by Marlon James

Hired to find a mysterious boy who disappeared three years before, Tracker joins a search party that is quickly targeted by deadly creatures, in the first novel of a trilogy from the author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
The buried giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro

A tale of lost memories, vengeance and war by the award-winning author of The Remains of the Day follows the experiences of a couple who journeys across a troubled land of mist and rain the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.
The city of brass
by S. A. Chakraborty

A young con artist of unsurpassed talent inadvertently summons a mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, revealing the existence of true magic before the future of a magical Middle Eastern kingdom falls into her hands.
The Goblin Emperor
by Katherine Addison

Reluctantly elevated to the throne when his father and brothers are killed in a suspicious accident, an exiled half-goblin is rapidly overwhelmed by ambitious sycophants, imperial burdens and dangerous plots while searching for friendship and love. 
The long way to a small, angry planet
by Becky Chambers

Joining the crew of the aging Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that has seen better days, loner Rosemary Harper must unexpectedly risk her life when they are offered the job of a lifetime, which teaches her valuable lessons about love and trust, and that having a family isn't the worst thing in the universe.
Parable of the sower
by Octavia E Butler

In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.
Riot baby
by Tochi Onyebuchi

The author of the award-winning young-adult novel Beasts Made of Night tackles youth, race and the carceral state with magical flair, in his adult-science-fiction debut.
Sorcerer to the crown
by Zen Cho

While trying to discover why England's magical stocks are drying up, Zacharias Wythe, freed slave and Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers, meets an unusual woman whose power could alter the nature of sorcery in all of Britain.
The traitor Baru Cormorant
by Seth Dickinson

Forced to swallow her hate for the Empire of Masks and join the Empire's civil service to set her people free, Baru Cormorant, while serving as an Imperial agent in another conquered country, orchestrates a do-or-die gambit with freedom as the prize.
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