Shanya's Saga
by David J GibsonScience Fiction
In 2045 the doors close overnight, splitting rich from poor, and Dr Shanya Tourni wakes up on the wrong side.
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5 indie science fiction books to start with
A war academy's first real war, a world divided by locked doors and a clock in the attic that opens onto another century. Five science fiction starters.
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COLD GENESIS
by Festus GitongaScience Fiction
Eron wakes in a buried stasis chamber with no memory, a broken arm and a world that has waited a hundred thousand years for him.
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by Wonders WorkshopScience Fiction
The academy trained them for command. Now the cadets are deployed to a star system that chose resistance.
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by Alex James EcclestonScience Fiction
Every night at nineteen minutes to midnight, a grandfather clock appears in Jerome's attic, and it opens onto the 1800s.
To Give a Rose
by Caroline AilanthusScience Fiction
An artist who listens to fossils for inspiration, an unexpected pregnancy, and the imagined lives of our earliest ancestors.
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