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The 13 Best Science Fiction Books of 2017 by Popular Mechanics

The 13 Best Science Fiction Books of 2017

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Title: Borne

The creatures are Mord and Borne --animal, perhaps plant, maybe company discard, biotech, cruel experiment, dinner, deity, or source of spare parts"--
Author(s): Jeff VanderMeer
ISBN 13: 9780374115241
Pages: 336

Title: Walkaway

Abandoning formal society to pursue a minimalist counterculture life in a near-future world wrecked by climate change, a disenchanted senior and his heiress paramour inspire followers who become obsessed with cheating death in ways that ...
Author(s): Cory Doctorow
ISBN 13: 9780765392763
Pages: 384

Title: The Stars Are Legion

"Set within a system of decaying world-ships travelling through deep space ... follows a pair of sisters who must wrest control of their war-torn legion of worldships --and may have to destroy everything they know in order to survive"--
Author(s): Kameron Hurley
ISBN 13: 9781481447935
Pages: 400

Title: Six Wakes

Maria Arena awakens in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. She has no memory of how she died. This is new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died.
Author(s): Mur Lafferty
ISBN 13: 9780316389686
Pages: 400

Title: The Moon and the Other

A Washington Post Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Selection of 2017 “Charming, sexy.” —The Washington Post John Kessel, one of the most visionary writers in the field, has created a rich matriarchal utopia, set in the near future on ...
Author(s): John Kessel
ISBN 13: 9781481481441
Pages: 608

Title: Amatka

Vanja, a government worker, leaves her home city of Essre for the austere, wintry colony of Amatka on a research assignment. It takes some adjusting: people act differently in Amatka, and citizens are monitored for signs of subversion.
Author(s): Karin Tidbeck
ISBN 13: 9781101973950
Pages: 224

Title: An Excess Male

An Excess Male is the story of one such leftover man’s quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritarian measures, reinvigorated communist ideals, and social engineering ...
Author(s): Maggie Shen King
ISBN 13: 9780062662552
Pages: 400

Title: Sourdough

"A new novel about an underground food community by the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore"--
Author(s): Robin Sloan
ISBN 13: 9780374203108
Pages: 272

Title: Autonomous

Judith "Jack" Chen, a scientist-turned-drug pirate, travels the world in a submarine to bring cheap medicine to the poor, but when her latest drug hack results in a trail of lethal overdoses, she is pursued by a jaded military agent and his ...
Author(s): Annalee Newitz
ISBN 13: 9780765392077
Pages: 304

 

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