Our Books: Speculative Fiction
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Body Tourists
Jane RogersHer observation of our species is tender, precise, illuminating – Hilary Mantel In this version of London, there is a small, private clinic. Behind its layers of security, procedures are taking place on poor, robust teenagers from Northern Estates in e …
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Emily Eternal
M. G. WheatonMeet Emily – she can solve advanced mathematical problems, unlock the mind’s deepest secrets and even fix your truck’s air con, but unfortunately, she can’t restart the Sun. She’s an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process tr …
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Early Riser
Jasper FfordeJasper Fforde’s first standalone novel – full of the imagination, wit and intelligence that has made Fforde a Number One bestseller. Imagine a world where all humans must hibernate through a brutally cold winter, their bodies dangerously close to death …
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Suicide Club
Rachel HengThey leave us no choice. Always look both ways before you cross the road. Get a 9 to 5 job . Exercise for 30 minutes every day. Do not eat bread. Do not eat sugar. Do yoga. Do meditate. Never raise your voice. Always smile, even if you feel like dying. …
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The Book of Luce
L. R. FredericksA mind-bending mystery spanning continents and centuries for all fans of Neal Stephenson and David Mitchell. My obsession begins in the magical year 1967, at Luce and the Photons’ legendary last secret gig. That night changes my life: I must know who L …
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Sockpuppet
Matthew BlakstadHow do you find someone who doesn’t exist? There’s no such person as sic_girl. She’s a fake internet personality Dani Farr designed to win a bet. But she’s just started spilling state secrets. Dani can’t imagine why anyone would hack a bit of code she …
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Slade House
David MitchellPrepare to be chilled, electrified and entertained – a gem of a novel from ‘one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country’ – Independent Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the …
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Gun Machine
Warren EllisAn apartment full of guns. A hundred unsolved murders. An explosive, utterly unique crime novel from world-famous comics writer Warren Ellis. The room is full of guns. Old ones. New ones. Modified ones. Hundreds of them. This is a collection belonging …
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A Man Lies Dreaming
Lavie Tidhar‘A twisted masterpiece’ – Adam Roberts, Guardian Deep in the heart of history’s most infamous concentration camp, a man lies dreaming. His name is Shomer, and before the war he was a pulp fiction author. Now, to escape the brutal reality of life in Aus …
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The Violent Century
Lavie TidharJohn le Carré meets Alan Moore’s The Watchmen in this stunning novel by one of science fiction’s most original voices. They’d never meant to be heroes. For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound tog …
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The Book of Phoenix
Nnedi OkoraforSpanning contents and centuries, The Book of Phoenix is an epic, incendiary work of magial realism featuring Nnedi Okorafor’s most incredible, unforgettable heroine yet. They call her many things – a research project, a test-subject, a specimen. An abo …
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