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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Sep 22, 2017
Here’s a ton of really intriguing novels to get your hands on this year if you're a science fiction and fantasy aficionado.

2017 has been a huge year for science fiction and fantasy literature as a whole. The Verge has compiled some great reads from debut authors, and the best names in the business closing out trilogies.


Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7)

James S.A. Corey

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In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their...


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Barbary Station

Barbary Station

R.E. Stearns

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Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates—only to discover the pirates are...


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The Stone in the Skull: The Lotus Kingdoms

The Stone in the Skull: The Lotus Kingdoms

Elizabeth Bear

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This first volume of a new Eternal Sky trilogy takes readers over the dangerous mountain passes of...


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Provenance

Provenance

Ann Leckie

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Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C....


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Autonomous: A Novel

Autonomous: A Novel

Annalee Newitz

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When anything can be owned, how can we be free Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist...


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Books Editor (673 KP) shared own list

Sep 22, 2017
Two illuminating memoirs, an irreverent essay collection, and some non-fiction war novels, here are New York Times' books of the week.

Fall fiction is here and ready to entertain you, as new novels by Nicole Krauss, Salman Rushdie and Nathan Englander can attest.


The Golden House

The Golden House

Salman Rushdie

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When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious...


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Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A Novel

Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A Novel

Nathan Englander

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The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable...


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Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe

Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe

Inara Verzemnieks

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"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born...that at some point each year...


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A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

James Reston Jr.

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A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Vietnam Vet Revisits the Culture War that Raged around...


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Alex Ross Perry recommended Videodrome (1983) in Movies (curated)

 
Videodrome (1983)
Videodrome (1983)
1983 | Horror, Sci-Fi

"On my mind a lot lately as our reality leaps closer and closer to science fiction from the decade I was born."

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Michael Cunningham recommended Solaris in Books (curated)

 
Solaris
Solaris
Stanislaw Lem | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
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"If speculative fiction is the last surviving instance of the novel of ideas, this to me is the greatest of them all."

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David (7 KP) created a post

Sep 7, 2017  
Looking for some good suggestions for books. I read pretty much everything, but my favorite genres are Mystery Thrillers, Historical Fiction, and Horror.
     
Jackie Brown (1997)
Jackie Brown (1997)
1997 | Action, Drama, Mystery
A great crime drama with a great twist if a little low on action. If you like Pulp Fiction you should enjoy this.