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New For You - Science Fiction - August 2025

Fiction fuelled by advanced technology - you'll find great new reads in this list.

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  • 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.
    Book, 2025New York : Nightfire, 2025. — SCIENCE FICTION
  • A propulsive exploration of capitalism, technology, and our place within a system that dwarfs us.
    Book, 2025London : Grove Press, 2025. — SCIENCE FICTION FOS
  • Ex Machina meets This is How You Lose the Time War: Seth Haddon's science fiction debut, Volatile Memory, is a heart-filled, vengeful sapphic sci-fi action adventure.
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  • Exploring the extreme aftermath of induced global sleeplessness and the horrors of love amidst lost sanity, this is a perfect read for fans of The Girl with All the Gifts and 28 Days Later.
    Book, 2025London : Angry Robot, 2025. — HORROR
  • Kezza, an aerialist in the Martian circus, can never return to Earth but she can assassinate the man she blames for her grim life on the red planet. Her murderous plans take an unexpected turn, however, when she uncovers a sinister secret.
    Book, 2025London : Flame Tree Press, [2025] — SCIENCE FICTION AFI
  • Science fiction mystery - an impossible crime and a mysterious woman with access to incredible technology. Fast paced and well plotted.
    Book, 2025London : Arcadia, 2025. — SCIENCE FICTION
  • A space opera about the search for a missing person, a galaxy-spanning conspiracy and the secrets we keep, even from ourselves.
    Book, 2025London : Orbit, 2025. — SCIENCE FICTION
  • This debut novel explores the unexpected relationship between an artist and a 130-year-old woman - two of the last people living in a flooded San Francisco of the future.
    Book, 2025New York : Pantheon Books, 2025. — SCIENCE FICTION
  • Horror in space! Dementer is a spaceship AI; her job is to shuttle humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri. Unfortunately her passengers keep dying. A clever retelling of the Dracula story.
    Book, 2025San Francisco : Ezeekat Press, an imprint of Bindery Books, Inc., [2025] — SCIENCE FICTION
  • Fantastic universes and personal dramas collide as a group of friends blur the line between real life and fiction with delightfully disastrous results.
    Book, 2025New York : Atria Books, 2025. — SCIENCE FICTION