Genre: Science Fiction

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Crime, Fiction, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Time Travel Published by William Morrow on August 2, 2022 Format: eBook Pages: 368 Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened?  Late October. After midnight. You’re waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He’s late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn’t he’s walking toward a man, and he’s armed.  You can’t believe it when you see him do your funny, happy teenage son, he kills a stranger, right there on the street outside your house. You don’t know who. You don’t know why. You only know your son is now in custody. His future shattered.  That night you fall asleep in despair. All is lost. Until you wake . . .  . . . and it is yesterday.  And then you wake again . . .  . . . and it is the day before yesterday.  Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. With another chance to stop it. Somewhere in the past lies an answer. The trigger for this crime—and you don’t have a choice but to find it . …

Golden Son by Pierce Brown Series: Red Rising Saga #2 Genres: Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller Published by Del Ray on January 6, 2015 Format: Hardcover Pages: 447 With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender’s Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown’s genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within. A life-or-death tale of vengeance with an unforgettable hero at its heart, Golden Son guarantees Pierce Brown’s continuing status as one of fiction’s most exciting new voices. If Red Rising was the hook to get me interested, Golden Son delivered the full goods and sold me on this series. While I found Red Rising to be ambitious and an exciting read, it had some pretty notable drawbacks that took me out of the story at times. Does it matter that a random reader with no following like myself has critiques and …

Red Rising by Pierce Brown Series: Red Rising Saga #1 Genres: Adult, Adventure, Dystopian, Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Published by Del Ray on January 28, 2014 Format: Hardcover Pages: 382 “I live for the dream that my children will be born free,” she says. “That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.”  “I live for you,” I say sadly.  Eo kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.”  Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations.  Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.  But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity already reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.  Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices …

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Genres: Adult, Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, Time Travel Published by Random House Publishing Group on July 26, 2016 Format: eBook Pages: 368 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD! • NOW STREAMING ON APPLE TV+ A “mind-blowing” (Entertainment Weekly) speculative thriller about an ordinary man who awakens in a world inexplicably different from the reality he thought he knew—from the author of Upgrade, Recursion, and the Wayward Pines trilogy “Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the kidnapper knocks him unconscious.  Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man he’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.” In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Is it this life or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how will Jason make …

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro Genres: Adult, Contemporary Fiction, Dystopian, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on March 2, 2021 Format: Hardcover Pages: 320 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures … a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? For two hundred pages I questioned why I was reading Klara and the Sun which …