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Science Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Afrofurturism, Feminist & Queer World-Building - an invitation to step into other worlds has always been at the center of our brick-and-mortar. Our first scifi/fantasy lists were built by WisCon fans, heavy on Butler and Le Guin and the other founding women of the genre. We’ve maintained our commitment to find, read, shelve, and recommend diverse voices. Browse here and find books for middle-grade and up, as the best speculative fiction crosses ages and genres!

Charlie Jane Anders, "The City in the Middle of the Night"

Charlie Jane Anders, "The City in the Middle of the Night"

$29.15

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"This generation's Le Guin." --Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less

Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night.

If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives.

January is a dying planet--divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk.

But life inside the cities is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands outside.

Sophie, a student and reluctant revolutionary, is supposed to be dead after being exiled into the night. Saved only by forming an unusual bond with the enigmatic beasts who roam the ice, Sophie vows to stay hidden from the world, hoping she can heal.

But fate has other plans--and Sophie's ensuing odyssey and the ragtag family she finds will change the entire world.


Paolo Bacigalupi, "The Tangled Lands"

Paolo Bacigalupi, "The Tangled Lands"

$18.35
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John Connolly, "The Chronicles of the Invaders"

from $19.44
Sam J. Miller, "Blackfish City"

Sam J. Miller, "Blackfish City"

$16.19
Nnedi Okorafor, "The Book of Phoenix"

Nnedi Okorafor, "The Book of Phoenix"

$8.63
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N K Jemisin, "The Broken Earth Trilogy"

from $17.27