Join the writers of the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association on a journey through worlds both familiar and unknown as they explore humanity's drive to create life (or something like it) in their own image.
Science fiction
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- Author:Farmer, Philip JoséSummary:
A great battle is brewing as extraordinary characters--including Samuel Clemens, U.S. Grant, and Cyrano de Bergerac--find themselves on the verge of discovering the origins of Riverworld.
- Author:McCafferty, MeganSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Megan McCafferty returns to her roots with this YA coming of age story set in a New Jersey mall. The year is 1991. Scrunchies, mixtapes and 90210 are, like, totally fresh. Cassie Worthy is psyched to...
- Author:Gerrold, DavidSummary:
With an introduction by Robert J. Sawyer. The Man Who Folded Himself is a classic science fiction novel by award-winning author David Gerrold. This work was nominated for both Hugo and Nebula awards and is considered by some critics to...
- Author:Jaeger, MurielSummary:
When Hilda, a beautiful young member of England's cynical postwar generation, meets Michael, a hapless mutant capable of perceiving the molecular composition of objects and the ever-shifting patterns of electromagnetic fields, she...
- Author:Ringo, John, Taylor, Travis S.Summary:
Recovering from their first mission, the crew of the Vorpal Blade--humankind's first interstellar craft--is called into emergency action when an alliance gate colony is attacked. Who was the lethal alien enemy? What exactly happened at...
- Author:Sullivan, Andrew F.Summary:
"This impressively bleak vision of the near future is as grotesquely amusing as it is grim." - Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW "A gripping tour-de-force torn from tomorrow's headlines." - David Demchuk, author...
- Author:Tomas, G.L.Summary:
Sterling Wayfairer has one goal for his senior year: make his mark. He’s been slipping into the background his whole high school career—distracted by his mother’s mental health, unsettled by the vivid dreams that haunt him at night, and...
- Author:Dimaline, CherieSummary:
In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population-- and it is their...
- Author:Weir, AndySummary:
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark...
- Author:Bradbury, RaySummary:
The first Earth people to attempt the colonization of Mars try to build their new world in the image of the civilization they left behind.
- Author:Benford, GregorySummary:
When four crewmen die in an explosion launching the Mars Transit Vehicle, the US decides to kill the manned mission to Mars. Tycoon John Axelrod decides to fund the project himself ... but a European-Asian airbus will make a similar...
- Author:Erlick, NikkiSummary:
"PERFECT FOR BOOK CLUBS."--MARIE CLAIREA luminous, spirit-lifting blockbuster for readers of The Midnight Library. Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice. It seems like any other day. You wake up, pour a cup of coffee...
- Author:Delgado, Yohanca, Ewing, Eve L., Johnson, Alaya Dawn, Lore, Danny, Thomas, Sheree R., Monáe, JanelleSummary:
Singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar, Janelle Monáe presents a collection of tales from the bold vision and powerful Afrofuturistic themes of her acclaimed album, Dirty Computer.
- Author:Dabos, ChristelleSummary:
In this gripping third volume of the Christelle Dabos's best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, finds herself on the ark of Babel guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future. After two...
- Author:Radio ArchivesSummary:
Before creating cinematic masterpieces like "Citizen Kane", Orson Welles established his creative credentials with "The Mercury Theatre on the Air", an hour-long showcase which allowed him, producer John Houseman,...
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Driving back from a weekend in London, Richard and Janet Gayford are surprised to find the village of Midwich sealed off because of 'army manoeuvres'. There are no birds singing, the air seems thick and there is a strange sort...
- Author:Older, MalkaSummary:
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle. On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on...
- Author:Robinson, Kim StanleySummary:
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and...
- Author:Robinson, Kim StanleySummary:
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020
"If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein
The Ministry...