Others: Positive Thanks to his alien mojo, Daemon's determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarro connection. So I've sworn him off, even though he's running more hot than cold these days. But we've got bigger problems. Something worse than the Arum has come to town.
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Sarah Pinborough
2015 · 278 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveThis is an exceptional, contemporary, heart-breaking novel. Toby's life was perfectly normal until it was unravelled by something as simple as a blood test. Taken from his family, Toby now lives in the Death House; an out-of-time existence far from the modern world, where he, and the others who live there, are studied by Matron and her team of nurses. They're looking for any sign of sickness. Any sign of their wards changing. Any sign that it's time to take them to the sanatorium. No one returns from the sanatorium. Withdrawn from his house-mates and living in his memories of the past, Toby spends his days fighting his fear. But then a new arrival in the house shatters the fragile peace, and everything changes. Because everybody dies. It's how you choose to live that counts.
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Naomi Alderman
1998 · 352 pages · 6 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveix, 340 pages : 20 cm
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Ken MacLeod
2001 · 292 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveAs the humans of Earth finally achieve space travel, they discover that the universe is filled with an infinite variety of intelligent alien life and that they have become pawns in the deadly wars of the alien gods.
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Martha Wells
2023 · 245 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveAm I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize. But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast! Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.
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Samuel R. Delany
1967 · 155 pages · 2 reviews
Others: MixedThe Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of earth, where his kind have settled among the leftover artifacts of humanity. The deeper tale concerns, however, the way those who are "different" must deal with the dominant cultural ideology. The tale follows Lobey's mythic quest for his lost love, Friza. In luminous and hallucinated language, it explores what new myths might emerge from the detritus of the human world as those who are "different" try to seize history and the day.
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C. L. Moore
1982 · 387 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Leaning positiveHis eyes flash like steel in his weathered face. His worn spacer's leathers tell a tale of challenge met, hardship endured. Engraved on his memory are the secrets of a hundred ancient alien races. Here is the mystery and glory of the universe. Here is a legend come to life. Here is Northwest Smith. Contents: Shambleau. Black Thirst. The Tree of Life. Scarlet Dream. Dust of the Gods. Lost Paradise. Julhi. The Cold Gray God. Yvala. Song in a Minor Key.
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Loved itthis is kind of a book about aliens and this girl who kind of falls in love with one and the way the aliens are done is really kind of unique and i really like the way that jennifer l armentrout put this novel together and book series together
