Genre: Biopunk

Overgrowth by Mira Grant Genres: Adult, Horror, LGBTQ+, Science Fiction, Biopunk, Hard Sci-fi Published by Tor Nightfire on May 5, 2025 Format: Hardcover, Special Edition Pages: 480 Source: Owlcrate Day of the Triffids meets Little Shop of Horrors in this smart, charming, harrowing alien invasion story about being human, by a Hugo-award winning author.  Since she was three years old, Anastasia Miller has been telling anyone who would listen that she’s an alien disguised as a human being, and that the armada that left her on Earth is coming for her. Since she was three years old, no one has believed her.  Now, with an alien signal from the stars being broadcast around the world, humanity is finally starting to realize that it’s already been warned, and it may be too late. The invasion is coming, Stasia’s biological family is on the way to bring her home, and very few family reunions are willing to cross the gulf of space for just one misplaced child.  What happens when you know what’s coming, and just refuse to listen? Most sci-fi alien invasion stories are told from the frontline defenders, innocent bystanders, or the invader themselves, but not many are told from …

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi Genres: Adult, Comedy, Fiction, Science Fiction Published by Tor on March 14, 2022 Format: eBook Pages: 261 The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi’s first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy.  When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization.” Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on.  What Tom doesn’t tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at least. In an alternate dimension, massive dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm, human-free world. They’re the universe’s largest and most dangerous panda and they’re in trouble.  It’s not just the Kaiju Preservation Society who have found their way to the alternate world. Others have, too. And their carelessness could cause millions back on our Earth to die. Imagine taking loose elements of Jurassic Park, bioengineer some crazy science fiction …

Leech by Hiron Ennes Genres: Adult, Gothic, Horror, Science Fiction Published by Tor on September 26, 2022 Format: Hardcover Pages: 323 In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies.  For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and protect the species from the apocalyptic horrors their ancestors unleashed.  In the frozen north, the Institute’s body will discover a competitor for its rung at the top of the evolutionary ladder. A parasite is spreading through the baron’s castle, already a dark pit of secrets, lies, violence, and fear. The two will make war on the battlefield of the body. Whichever wins, humanity will lose again. This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence. A mysterious parasitic ailment, a medical institute that isn’t what it …

The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton Genres: Adult, Dystopian, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Published by Sourcebooks on March 28, 2024 Format: eBook Pages: 368 Solve the murder to save what’s left of the world.  Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched.  On the island: it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they’re told by the scientists.  Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And then they learn that the murder has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay. If the murder isn’t solved within 107 hours, the fog will smother the island—and everyone on it.  But the security system has also wiped everyone’s memories of exactly what happened the night before, which means that someone on the island is a murderer—and they don’t even know it.  And the …