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Lisavet Levy discovers an archive of the memories left by the dead. Inside it, agents erase records to alter history. A second story follows Amelia Duquesne during the Cold War, connecting the struggle over this extraordinary library with a world where controlling the past can shape the future.
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Lily enters a remote desert compound with nineteen other contestants. Under constant observation, they compete in challenges that control access to both luxuries and necessities. As the competition continues, the attraction of winning becomes inseparable from a more troubling question: what keeps them inside?
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An experimental center promises a way to sleep through grief. Strangers travel toward it with different losses and different hopes for what they might find on waking. Their shared destination brings together the desire for relief and the difficult prospect of facing life after someone is gone.
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An algorithm reads Sara’s dreams as signs that she may become dangerous. Detained on that prediction, she must negotiate an institution whose rules turn imagined possibilities into restrictions on her life. Her struggle centers on reclaiming freedom when the evidence against her comes from her own sleeping mind.
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Zelu, a disabled Nigerian American writer, finds unexpected success with a science-fiction novel about robots. As her work reaches a wider audience, the story she created changes her own life. The novel brings a writer’s present into conversation with the imagined future that has made her famous.
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Following a devastating defeat, Darrow struggles to return to the people and republic he hopes to protect. His journey brings old companions and new alliances into a conflict with Lysander, whose ambitions threaten to restore the system Darrow fought to overthrow.
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Klara is an Artificial Friend waiting in a shop to be chosen. She observes customers and the people passing the window with unusual attention, before her life becomes connected to a girl named Josie. Through a manufactured companion's view of a household, Kazuo Ishiguro's standalone novel asks what care and affection mean when companionship is also an assigned purpose. Its intimate setting offers a literary science-fiction approach to artificial consciousness, human expectations and the limits of interpretation. The original novel was published in 2021; translated editions and later paperbacks are separate bibliographic events.
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A widening galactic war exposes weapons capable of destroying entire planetary systems. Spensa seeks to understand the mysterious forces behind them, following her unusual abilities into a journey that may reveal whether humanity has any way to resist.
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In a world that has surrendered to images, words lose their authority and children take power. The resulting order turns silence and spectacle into instruments of control. This dystopian novel follows the implications of that reversal, asking what remains of thought, memory and human relationships when language can no longer hold a society together.
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Ryland Grace wakes far from Earth without knowing his name or why his crewmates are dead. As memories return, he pieces together an urgent scientific mission and must find a way to confront a threat to humanity with very limited help.
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Red and Blue serve rival factions working to secure different futures. A letter opens a forbidden correspondence across the temporal conflict, and professional antagonism develops into a dangerous emotional connection. This science-fiction novella follows two agents whose private exchanges put loyalty and love under competing pressures.
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People begin recalling lives they have never lived. New York detective Barry Sutton investigates the apparent affliction, while neuroscientist Helena Smith’s work brings memory and time into the same mystery. As recollection and shared reality cease to agree, understanding what has happened becomes a problem with consequences beyond any individual mind.
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Now an outlaw, Darrow wages a desperate campaign on Mercury while the Republic he helped create faces threats from within and beyond. Rival heirs, political leaders and displaced civilians become part of a struggle over what will survive the revolution.
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Having reached the skies, Spensa learns that both her father’s past and humanity’s place in the galaxy are more complicated than she believed. Determined to protect her people, she travels beyond home while confronting unsettling discoveries about her own abilities.
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The order responsible for managing death moves closer to authoritarian control while the intelligence governing the wider world falls silent. The trilogy’s concluding volume brings its competing visions of immortality, conscience and power toward a final confrontation.
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Ten years after the revolution, Darrow and his allies are still fighting the forces of the old order. Their incomplete victory is viewed from several lives across the system, exposing the distance between overthrowing a hierarchy and building a lasting peace.
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Spensa dreams of becoming a pilot in humanity’s desperate defence against relentless attacks. Her father’s reputation as a coward blocks her path, but a discovery in an abandoned cavern offers an unexpected chance to challenge the story that defines her family.
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Citra challenges the cruelty spreading through the scythes’ order while Rowan pursues corrupt members outside its rules. The intelligence overseeing humanity watches a conflict it is forbidden to control, as their supposedly perfected society becomes increasingly unstable.
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A security unit accompanying a scientific expedition has secretly disabled its governor module. Calling itself Murderbot, the partly organic and partly mechanical construct would prefer some privacy to understand who it is. When a neighbouring mission stops communicating, the expedition faces a danger that puts its protector's choices to the test. Martha Wells uses the expedition premise to explore freedom beyond enforced obedience and an employer's definition of usefulness. First published in 2017, All Systems Red is a novella and the first volume of The Murderbot Diaries; Artificial Condition follows it.
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Small-time smuggler Jazz Bashara accepts a lucrative job in Artemis, humanity's lunar city. What should solve her money problems instead entangles her in a struggle for control of the settlement, demanding both technical ingenuity and a way out of her own scheme.
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