Get started ↓Catch up on modern science fiction. These novels and novellas won the Hugo, Nebula, Locus or Arthur C. Clarke award since 2015, newest first.
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by Nnedi Okorafor
Novel · 2025
Death of the Author is a 2025 Africanfuturist novel by Nigerian American author Nnedi Okorafor. The book follows Zelunjo Onyenezi-Onyedele, a Nigerian American writer who gains critical success through the publication of a science fiction work, entitled Rusted Robots.
by E. J. Swift
Novel · 2025
The extraordinary speculative novel of past, present and future, by the Clarke Award-shortlisted author of THE CORAL BONES. Decades from now, two women sit around a fire on Beltane, May Eve, and reflect on their life stories.
by Sierra Greer
Novel · 2024
Annie is the perfect girlfriend. She has dinner ready for Doug every night, wears the outfits he buys for her, and caters to his every sexual whim. Maybe her cleaning isn't always good enough, but she's trying really hard.
by A. D. Sui
Novella · 2024
A 2024 science fiction novella by A. D. Sui. Nebula Award winner.
by Alexander Boldizar
Novel · 2024
The Man Who Saw Seconds is a 2024 science fiction thriller novel by the Slovak-Canadian writer Alexander Boldizar, published by CLASH Books. It won the 2025 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
by Ray Nayler
Novella · 2024
A 2024 science fiction novella by Ray Nayler. Hugo Award winner; Locus and Nebula recognition.
by Martin MacInnes
Novel · 2023
In Ascension is a 2023 science fiction novel by British writer Martin MacInnes, published in the UK by Atlantic Books and in the US by Grove Atlantic. It is published or forthcoming in ten languages.
by Emily Tesh
Novel · 2022
While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth.
by Martha Wells
Novel · 2023
Am 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.
by Becky Chambers
Novella · 2022
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a 2022 solarpunk novella written by American author Becky Chambers and published by Tor.com on July 12, 2022. It is the second book in the Monk & Robot series, preceded by A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2021).
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2022
The Kaiju Preservation Society is a science fiction novel written by American author John Scalzi. It was first published in hardcover and ebook by Tor Books, and audiobook by Audible Studios, on March 15, 2022; British hardcover and ebook editions were released by Tor UK on March 17, 2022.
by Ned Beauman
Novel · 2022
Venomous Lumpsucker is a 2022 novel by Ned Beauman. It won the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award. The novel tells the story of Karin Resaint, a scientist researching the titular species of fish.
by Arkady Martine
Novel · 2021
A Desolation Called Peace is a 2021 space opera science fiction novel by Arkady Martine. It is the sequel to A Memory Called Empire, and the second novel in Martine's Teixcalaan series. Like its predecessor, the book won the Hugo Award for Best Novel.
by Becky Chambers
Novella · 2021
A tea monk meets a robot. The big question is what people actually need.
by P. Djèlí Clark
Novel · 2021 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark goes full-length for the first time in his dazzling debut novel Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after…
by Premee Mohamed
Novella · 2021 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
In a far future city, where you can fall to a government cull for a single mistake, And What Can We Offer You Tonight tells the story of Jewel, established courtesan in a luxurious House.
by Harry Josephine Giles
Novel · 2021
Deep Wheel Orcadia is a science-fiction novel by Harry Josephine Giles. It is a verse novel written in the Orcadian dialect of the Scots language in parallel with an English translation. The book won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was published by Picador Poetry in 2021.
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2021
No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall.
by Martha Wells
Novel · 2020
Murderbot has inconvenient feelings and a much bigger problem.
by Laura Jean McKay
Novel · 2020
The Animals in That Country is a 2020 science fiction novel by Australian writer Laura Jean McKay, published by Scribe. The novel won the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2020), Arthur C. Clarke Award (2021), Victorian Prize for Literature (2021), and Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction (2021).
by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Novella · 2019
Two rival agents exchange letters across the battlefield of time.
by Arkady Martine
Novel · 2019
Poetry, politics, and a murder at the heart of an irresistible empire.
by Sarah Pinsker
Novel · 2019
In the Before, when the government didn't prohibit large public gatherings, Luce Cannon was on top of the world. One of her songs had just taken off and she was on her way to becoming a star.
by Charlie Jane Anders
Novel · 2018
Would you give up everything to change the world? Humanity clings to life on January – a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other.
by Namwali Serpell
Novel · 2019
On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement called The Old Drift.
by Mary Robinette Kowal
Novel · 2018
Earth needs an escape plan. A gifted pilot needs a seat at the table.
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2018
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.
by Tade Thompson
Novel · 2017
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless--people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers.
by Aliette de Bodard
Novella · 2018
Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars.
by Martha Wells
Novella · 2017
It hacked its programming. It would really rather watch television.
by N. K. Jemisin
Novel · 2017 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row. The Moon will soon return.
by Anne Charnock
Novel · 2017
A 2017 science fiction novel by Anne Charnock. Clarke Award winner.
by John Scalzi
Novel · 2017
The Collapsing Empire is a space opera novel by American writer John Scalzi. The book was published by Tor Books on March 21, 2017. It is the first book in The Interdependency series, although it was originally intended to be a two book series.
by Charlie Jane Anders
Novel · 2016 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
An ancient society of witches and a hipster technological startup go war as the world from tearing itself.
by Cixin Liu
Novel
Death's End is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is the third novel in the trilogy titled Remembrance of Earth's Past, following the Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem and its sequel, The Dark Forest. The original Chinese version was published in 2010.
by N. K. Jemisin
Novel · 2016 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
""Intricate and extraordinary."--New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015) The second novel in a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin. THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ...
by Colson Whitehead
Novel · 2016 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits.
by Nnedi Okorafor
Novella · 2015
One student carries her whole world into an unfamiliar universe.
by N. K. Jemisin
Novel · 2015 · Science fiction and fantasy crossover
The world is ending again. This time, the earth has a voice.
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Novel · 2015
Humanity’s last hope has a civilization of its own.
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2015
For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship.
by Alastair Reynolds
Novella · 2015
An interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilisation itself.
by Nancy Kress
Novella · 2014
Marianne Jenner, a geneticist and mother of three, has 10 months to try to avert a disaster and keep her family intact after aliens land in New York. "Aliens have landed in New York.
by Cixin Liu
Novel · 2008
A scientific mystery opens a door humanity may wish had stayed shut.
by Emily St. John Mandel
Novel · 2014
After the collapse, a traveling theater keeps something human alive.
by Jeff VanderMeer
Novel · 2014
An expedition enters a landscape that does not want to be understood.
by Ann Leckie
Novel · 2014
Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she has only a single body and serves the emperor.
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