BOOKSTHAT / LIST NO. 4169
Speculative books for possible futures, altered presents, and realities that ask better questions than ours.
FUTURE & SPECULATION
LITERATURE
PHILOSOPHY & IDEAS
Cover unavailableN K Jemisin
“Jemisin's work itself is part of a slow but definite change in sci-fi and fantasy.”
GuardianReview excerpt
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Cover unavailableOctavia Butler, Janelle Monáe
Butler makes history brutally immediate, using time travel to expose how slavery binds power, kinship, and survival.
Synopsis
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“Ex Machinameets Falloutin The Felicity Complex: this stylishly unsettling scouring of sexism and survival where the humans are grotesque and the monsters are touchingly human.”
Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times Bestselling and Hugo Award winning authorPublished endorsement
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“The spectre of caste is so immense and all-encompassing that often, non-fiction alone fails to reach its farthest contours.”
Yashica DuttPublished endorsement
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“Adroitly beautiful, funny, and scathing, Public Access Afterworld is a book from a talented storyteller with much to say, who’s not afraid to say it.”
SenLinYu, #1 New York Times bestselling author of AlchemisedPublished endorsement
Cover unavailableYume Kitasei
“Kitasei’s outstanding sophomore outing clears the high bar she set inThe Deep Sky,combining a high-stakes space adventure withexquisitely crafted worldbuilding and plausibly imagined interspecies communication.”
Publishers Weekly, starred reviewReview excerpt