Neverworld Wake (2018)

Others: Mostly positive

Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her five best friends were the cool kids, the beautiful ones. Then the shocking death of Jim their creative genius and Beatrice's boyfriend changed everything. One year after graduation, Beatrice is returning to Wincroft the seaside estate where they spent so many nights sharing secrets, crushes, plans to change the world hoping she ll get to the bottom of the dark questions gnawing at her about Jim's death.

ISBN:: 9780399553929
Length:: 332 pages

Genres: science fiction

Lists: …

Similar books

1 of 6

Open book
The final six
Alexandra Monir
2018 · 338 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Leaning positive
When Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, and Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius from California, are two of the twenty-four teens drafted into the International Space Training Camp, their lives are forever altered.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Also science fiction
70%
On the same reading list
18%
BooksandLala loved both
12%
Personalize your recommendations
Open book
Severance
Ling Ma
2018 · 304 pages · 3 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positive
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she’s had her fill of uncertainty. She’s content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads. Families flee. Companies cease operations. The subways screech to a halt. Her bosses enlist her as part of a dwindling skeleton crew with a big end-date payoff. Soon entirely alone, still unfevered, she photographs the eerie, abandoned city as the anonymous blogger NY Ghost. Candace won’t be able to make it on her own forever, though. Enter a group of survivors, led by the power-hungry IT tech Bob. They’re traveling to a place called the Facility, where, Bob promises, they will have everything they need to start society anew. But Candace is carrying a secret she knows Bob will exploit. Should she escape from her rescuers? A send-up and takedown of the rituals, routines, and missed opportunities of contemporary life, Ling Ma’s Severance is a moving family story, a quirky coming-of-adulthood tale, and a hilarious, deadpan satire. Most important, it’s a heartfelt tribute to the connections that drive us to do more than survive.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Also science fiction
70%
On 2 of the same lists
30%
Personalize your recommendations
Open book
The Doomed City
Arkady Natanovich Strugatsky
2016 · 416 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Positive
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky are widely considered the greatest of Russian science fiction masters, and their most famous work, Roadside Picnic, has enjoyed great popularity worldwide. Yet the novel they worked hardest on, the novel that was their own favorite, the novel that readers worldwide have acclaimed as their magnum opus, has never before been published in English. The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky brothers kept its existence a complete secret even from their best friends for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see publication. It was translated into a host of major European languages, and now appears in English in a major new translation by acclaimed translator Andrew Bromfield. The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its sole inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves under conditions established by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a diehard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. And as increasingly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect. Boris Strugatsky wrote that the task of writing The Doomed City “was genuinely delightful and fascinating work.” Readers will doubtless say the same of the experience of reading it.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Also science fiction
74%
On the same reading list
26%
Personalize your recommendations
Open book
This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
2019 · 216 pages · 38 reviews
Others: Mostly positive
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. In the ashes of a dying world, Red finds a letter marked “Burn before reading. Signed, Blue.” So begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents in a war that stretches through the vast reaches of time and space. Red belongs to the Agency, a post-singularity technotopia. Blue belongs to Garden, a single vast consciousness embedded in all organic matter. Their pasts are bloody and their futures mutually exclusive. They have nothing in common—save that they’re the best, and they’re alone. Now what began as a battlefield boast grows into a dangerous game, one both Red and Blue are determined to win. Because winning’s what you do in war. Isn’t it? A tour de force collaboration from two powerhouse writers that spans the whole of time and space.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Also science fiction
78%
BooksandLala loved both
13%
On 4 of the same lists
9%
Personalize your recommendations
Open book
Gemina
Jay Kristoff
2016 · 672 pages · 13 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positive
Moving to a space station at the edge of the galaxy was always going to be the death of Hanna's social life. Nobody said it might actually get her killed.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Also science fiction
81%
Bookables loved both
14%
Similar descriptions
5%
Personalize your recommendations
Open book
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
1979 · 215 pages · 18 reviews
Others: Mostly positive
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction "hexalogy" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months. The namesake of the novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (inspired by the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe) written in the form of an encyclopaedia.
Why?
What made the match, strongest first
Also science fiction
82%
BooksandLala loved both
13%
On 2 of the same lists
5%
Personalize your recommendations