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New For You - Science Fiction - June 2025

Whether you like your fiction fuelled by magic or advanced technology, you'll find great new reads in this list.

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  • Arto has a problem. For one, he's a robot. He’s awoken with no memory of who he is, with nothing but a mysterious letter, in a world bereft of those fleshy, talky things that made him. So why is he alone, and where have all the people gone?
    eBook, 2025[Richmond] : Ultimo Press, 2025. — DIGITAL
  • Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror in this speculative novel about staying in love after mind-uploading into virtual reality.
    eBook, 2022South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2022. — DIGITAL
  • This is a modern love song about the fallibility of love―in all its iterations―about the denial and tethering of desire, about the family we are given and the one we find for ourselves, and to what comes next, whatever that may be.
    Book, XX(1567878.1)
  • Set in the fiercely competitive art world, this is a novel about an obsessive friendship upended by a cutting-edge technology purported to enhance empathy and connection.
    Book, XX(1566824.1)
  • The chance discovery of an injection that wards off age-related disease is hijacked by ruthless men who hunger for immortality, with catastrophic consequences.
    eBook, 2025London : Orenda Books Ltd 2025 — DIGITAL
  • Hunted by alternate reality invaders, a PI learns to harness his incredible powers to fight back.
    Book, 2025Oakland, California : Inkshares, Inc., [2025] — SCIENCE FICTION
  • A geopolitical thriller about a disintegrating Western world and the race to take control of the mysterious technology that could hold the key to the brewing revolution against tyranny.
    Book, 2025London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025. — SCIENCE FICTION
  • In the walled city of Bulwark, where the elite class of the Sainted rule, a bio-prosthetist and her personal AI are drawn into a revolution.
    Book, 2025New York : Atria Books, 2025. — SCIENCE FICTION
  • A sci-fi thriller where a biological threat ravages scientists and military personnel in Antarctica.
    Book, 2025London : Angry Robot, 2025. — SCIENCE FICTION